A wealth of info on the GOP and its CIA ops....HERE

[Dob Bole]

Listen to this old spy. E. Howard Hunt is his name. This raises a LOT of questions:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2107718/

[Dob Bole]

1. the one self-kick to rule them all

[hedda_foil]

2. This isn't just any old old spy, this is E. Howard fucking HUNT!!!

This guy has his fingerprints on EVERYTHING! The Bay of Pigs, Watergate, and the JFK assasination for starters. For heaven's sake, this needs a clip from the story before everyone misses it! He virtually admits being in on the assasination!

<snip>

Slate: I know there is a conspiracy theory saying that David Atlee Phillips—the Miami CIA station chief—was involved with the assassination of JFK.

Hunt: I have no comment.

Slate: I know you hired him early on, to work with you in Mexico, to help with Guatemala propaganda.

Hunt: He was one of the best briefers I ever saw.

Slate: And there were even conspiracy theories about you being in Dallas the day JFK was killed.

Hunt: No comment.

Laura Hunt: Howard says he wasn't, and I believe him.

Slate: Any regrets?

Hunt: No, none. Well, it would have been nice to do Bay of Pigs differently.

[Octafish]

3. Hunt did all he could to "erase" JFK's memory.

As he did with Che:

Hunt: What we certainly didn't want was a public monument to Che. We wanted his memory to vanish as soon as possible. But it never did. Even my son goes on about Che.

Same goes for President John F. Kennedy. When Hunt worked in the Nixon White House, he admitted planted forged cables and documents implicating JFK in the CIA-backed murders of South Vietnamese President Diem. John Dean found the documents in Hunt's White House safe.

[bloom]

4. this seems to sum his attitude up:

Slate: Did you ever think there was a way to get rid of Castro, short of a military coup?

Hunt: No. When Castro went into Cuba and took over, this was the moment?with all the chaos and disorganization?that our forces could have gone in and unseated him. But we always confronted this dreadful organization called the Department of State. Who needs it?!

Slate: What was your feeling about Batista?

Hunt: Well, I thought he ran a good government there. There was a lot of corruption, but there's always been corruption in Latin America. We can't be too purist about these things.



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I wonder how many people (Republicans, etc.) actually agree with this - "Who needs the State Department?"etc. :shrug: :argh: