Word: hunts
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Among papers found on two of the men were some bearing the name Howard Hunt and the notation "W. House" or "W.H." with his name. Hunt turned out to be a sometime journalist, a longtime CIA agent and an occasional novelist (when first arrested, the five offered aliases resembling names of characters in his books). More recently Hunt has been a special White House consultant; he served for several months in 1971 and 1972 on narcotics intelligence work. He was recommended for the job by Nixon's Special Counsel Charles W. Colson, admired and feared in Washington...
...advice of counsel, Hunt refused to talk with FBI agents about that meeting or anything else, but they had better luck elsewhere. Thanks to those crisp new bills the gang was carrying, the financing of the operation was soon traced to accounts controlled by Barker in Miami's Republic National Bank. The money was part of $89,000 that Barker had received from an as yet unidentified source in Mexico City in April. Recently all was withdrawn and an estimated $30,000 was then spent for the costly eavesdropping equipment as well as the group's living...
...told me the Mitchells were there." The FBI checks telephone records routinely-was it looking into Colson's recent telephone calls from his home? No, Gray says, but the FBI had talked with Colson about the case. His agents had, however, inquired at the White House about Howard Hunt's telephone calls while working there. "We were told that no records are kept of any calls made by the people with the White House...
Killing macaques is against Japan's game laws, but some rascally beasts in Kyoto almost lost their hides after they invaded several souvenir shops and stole chocolates. The shopkeepers set up a vigilante organization to hunt them down. Some local scientists persuaded a group of visiting Americans to open a monkey park of their own, however, and so 124 of the animals were shipped to Laredo, Texas...
Miscarriage of justice? Not necessarily, in Hunt's opinion. Having exposed some of the makeweights in the scales of justice, he comes strongly to the defense of the U.S. legal system. "The worst thing about our system," he concludes, "is its dreadful inefficiency." The best thing? The idea that it is "better to let ten guilty men go free than to convict one innocent...