Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most striking about Will is what it reveals about the kind of man who will do anything to stop those he sees as his country's enemies. Liddy tells how he plotted to kill Columnist Jack Anderson and drug Daniel Ellsberg for revealing classified information. After Howard Hunt, his Watergate crony, cooperated with investigators, Liddy fully expected to get, and made plans to carry out, an order to kill him. Liddy remains unrepentant. He regrets only that so many others failed to keep their silence. Perhaps more than any of the Watergate characters, Liddy embodied the principles underlying...
...unless Hunt told him, and I have no reason to believe...
Then Dean said, "Where's Hunt these days...
...June 1971, he shifted to the White House and was assigned to a secret group that was to become known as the "plumbers." The group was headed by Egil ("Bud") Krogh, deputy assistant to the President, and David Young, a former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, to the New York Times, had enraged Nixon. In a nighttime raid, they ransacked the files of Dr. Lewis Fielding...
...September of 1971 Howard Hunt approached me on the next Ellsberg neutralization proposal. Ellsberg was scheduled to speak at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, and Chuck Colson [special counsel to the President] thought it an opportunity to discredit him. Could we drug Ellsberg enough to befuddle him, make him appear a near burnt-out drug case...