Hoover’s FBI and military officers at Bethesda Naval hospital helped cover the tracks. Hunt admitted to being only a “benchwarmer” in the covert operation, but he named names: LBJ as kingpin over a CIA chain of command - David Atlee Phillips, William Harvey and David Morales.
In 2006, Hunt was dying of cancer and had his son record his confessions, published posthumously in Rolling Stone magazine.
Thanks so much again, New York Times, NBC, ABC, etc. That verdict never made it past the local Miami news stations. He won and convinced the jury that Hunt was lying and the CIA had been involved.
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Mark Lane defended the 1985 case, turning it into a de facto trial of the assassination.
Years later, Hunt lost a libel trial against a newspaper that published the confession of another CIA agent, Victor Marchetti, asserting that Hunt had been in Dallas on Nov. Howard Hunt, CIA agent and Watergate criminal, had been a suspect almost from the beginning, when many noticed a striking resemblance to one of the “Three Tramps” arrested and photographed in Dealey Plaza that day, before being anonymously released. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and most of the major media are humming this old mantra: “We just may never know the truth.” But you don’t hear another of their favorite evasions anymore - “But somebody would have talked by now!” - because in 2006 a high-level conspirator did talk from his death bed.Į.