E. Howard Hunt(1918-2007)
Prior to working for President
Richard Nixon as part of the White House
"plumbers" unit--organized to track down the source of leaks of
documents that the White House did not want to become known--Watergate
operative E. Howard Hunt worked for the CIA. He conducted break-ins at
the Watergate complex at Nixon's orders in the name of "national
security" (supposedly they were looking for evidence that Cuban leader
Fidel Castro was secretly
contributing funds to the Democratic party). After the scandal broke
and the investigations of the incident were complete, Hunt was
imprisoned for his illegal activities in the operation.
He was born in Hamburg, New York, the son of a lawyer and a classically trained pianist who played church organ. He died of pneumonia at the North Shore Medical Center in Miami FL, on Tuesday January 23, 2007.
He was born in Hamburg, New York, the son of a lawyer and a classically trained pianist who played church organ. He died of pneumonia at the North Shore Medical Center in Miami FL, on Tuesday January 23, 2007.
