The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt
April 4th, 2007Via: Online Journal:
The April 5 issue of Rolling Stone features the deathbed confession of CIA operative and key Bay of Pigs/Watergate/Nixon administration figure E. Howard Hunt, The Last Confession of E. Howard Hunt by Erik Hedegaard. This piece is significant not only for its exploration of Hunt, but for breakthrough information that appears to thoroughly corroborate the work of key John F. Kennedy assassination researchers and historians.
Who killed JFK?
According to Hunt’s confession, which was taken by his son, St. John (“Saintâ€) Hunt, over the course of many personal and carefully planned father-son meetings, the following individuals were among the key participants:
Lyndon B. Johnson: LBJ, whose own career was assisted by JFK nemesis J. Edgar Hoover (FBI), gave the orders to a CIA-led hit team, and helped guide the Warren Commission/lone gunman cover-up.
Cord Meyer: CIA agent, architect of the Operation Mockingbird disinformation apparatus, and husband of Mary Meyer (who had an affair with JFK).
David Atlee Philips: CIA and Bay of Pigs veteran. Recruited William Harvey (CIA) and Cuban exile militant Antonio Veciana.
William Harvey: CIA and Bay of Pigs veteran. Connected to Mafia figures Santos Trafficante and Sam Giancana.
Antonio Veciana: Cuban exile, founder of CIA-backed Alpha 66.
Frank Sturgis: CIA operative, mercenary, Bay of Pigs veteran, and later Watergate figure.
David Morales: CIA hit man, Bay of Pigs veteran. Morales was also a figure involved with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Lucien Sarti: Corsican assassin and drug trafficker, possible “French gunman,†Grassy Knoll (second) shooter.
Would Hunt continue to tell lies on his deathbed? Perhaps. Would Hunt tell a final tall story or two, to protect himself, or perhaps deal one final slap in the face to the US government (which made him a fall guy for Watergate)? Yes. Would Hunt hide the involvement of certain individuals to whom he remained loyal, including people who are still alive? Certainly. Anything from an operative like Hunt can only be accepted with caution and healthy skepticism.
Nevertheless, Hunt’s scenario has the ring of truth.
Each of the named names are well-known CIA and CIA-linked players exposed by many researchers and historians who have detailed the enduring connection from the Bay of Pigs and the Dallas hit to Watergate and Iran-Contra.
Thanks for helping to bring this story to light. It’s one of the biggest bombshells in years and the mainstream media has completely ignored the story, thus proving their complicity.
At best, this is a plausible list of the low level minions. Even if (finally) truthful, Hunt would not have had any knowledge of matters far above his pay grade.
LBJ was wholly owned by Brown & Root (now part of Halliburton) from the outset of his career. Above that, you have the multigenerational oil families, including the founders of the CFR. Brown & Root was an oil services company. They served the Standard Oil companies, in other words, the Rockefellers.
J. Edgar Hoover was a closet drag queen who had been controlled and blackmailed by higher ups since the depression. He was a career minion, not a prime mover.
All the CIA soldiers lead back to Allen Dulles and international investment bankers who controlled him.
Of note, there is one living minion NOT named by Hunt, GHWB of the CIA, aged 36 at the time, and named in the Warren report. Looks like Hunt kept his vow of protecting the living to the very end.
There is no such thing as E. Howard Hunt’s “Last Confession,†contrary to claims currently being circulated by Mr. Hunt’s two elder sons, Howard St. John and David Hunt in recent articles published in the Los Angeles Times and in Rolling Stone magazine following Mr. Hunt’s death. Motivated by an apparent need for notoriety and financial gains, these theories regarding Mr. Hunt’s alleged knowledge of a JFK assassination conspiracy involving the late President Johnson and now dead CIA agents have no basis in fact and are not credible. There is nothing inherently newsworthy in the sad tale of rogue relatives sewing seeds of dissension after the death of a well-known public figure. What is true is that in his lifetime, E. Howard Hunt’s two elder sons were a deep disappointment to their father and family. If these theories rest on the credibility of the two elder sons, then their own backgrounds and reliability are well worth investigation. St. John Hunt has actually revealed his decades of drug use, abuse and drug dealing in the Rolling Stone article. Considering their source, reputable journalists should dismiss these claims as entirely lacking in credibility.
The theories advanced by his two elder sons after his death are totally inconsistent with Mr. Hunt’s tireless efforts to fight any and all conspiracy allegations during his lifetime. The Warren Commission report investigating the Kennedy assassination is a matter of public record. Unhappy with its findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, a veritable conspiracy industry has arisen, and because of Mr. Hunt’s CIA background, some theorists have speculated that Mr. Hunt was connected in some way. Allegations caused Congress to act and the JFK investigation was renewed in the early 1970’s. In 1974, Mr. Hunt repudiated and rejected these absurd theories as part of a 90-page sealed deposition before the Senate investigative committee. In that recently declassified and released transcript, which is available online, Mr. Hunt detailed each and every CIA assignment and every contact during his 21-year CIA career. During Mr. Hunt’s deposition, each bizarre conspiracy theory involving President Kennedy was detailed exhaustively, and Mr. Hunt testified that he had absolutely no knowledge of anything pertaining to the assassination. In addition, Mr. Hunt engaged in protracted litigation against Liberty Lobby, a political newspaper that had published conspiracy allegations concerning him. Although he won at trial the verdict was overturned on appeal. Mr. Hunt continued to fight against defamatory accusations, and specifically repudiated each one in detail in a chapter included in his final memoirs. Mr. Hunt also resisted several Hollywood “big money†offers to “cash in†on assassination speculations by lending credibility to CIA-connected JFK assassination scenarios. It is curious indeed, and perhaps sinister, that his elder sons would wait until after their father’s death to propagate conspiracy theories in an alleged “last confession†when Mr. Hunt is no longer able to personally repudiate them. All of Mr. Hunt’s knowledge concerning LBJ and any CIA agents is dealt with extensively by him in his new book American Spy (Wiley, 2007).
Mr. Hunt had also always firmly rejected any and all conspiracy theories involving the death of his first wife. The National Transportation Board and Federal Aviation Administration exhaustively investigated her accidental death on board a United Airlines passenger plane in 1972. Should there have been a conspiracy to murder her, the opportunities were many, and it is ludicrous to believe that the most effective method was to cause an airliner to crash, killing more than a hundred others. The verdict of the inquiry into the causes of the crash was that it was pilot error combined with extremely poor weather conditions, a verdict on which rational persons agree.
In 2005, Mr. Hunt’s two elder sons proposed a book project in conjunction with an individual with film industry connections. Unfortunately, as things developed, it was clear that the project was not about the interesting details of Mr. Hunt’s life. Rather, it was a vehicle to promote further conspiracy-fueled speculations involving rogue CIA agents and LBJ in the Kennedy assassination. Mr. Hunt definitively rejected that project, and he specifically rejected the theories it contained, both to his attorney, William A. Snyder, Jr. and to his youngest son, Austin, who was living at home and finishing his college courses. When that project did not proceed because of the bizarre conspiracy theories initially promoted, the elder brothers’ opportunities for financial gain faded. Their resulting reaction has been to continue to exploit Mr. Hunt, to create conflict and division within the family, to threaten their siblings and worst of all, to further a very selfish and greedy personal agenda.
In the interests of truth and fairness, Mr. Snyder and Mr. Austin Hunt should be consulted as the family’s spokespersons on this issue as their first-hand accounts are critical to emphatically contradict these spurious claims on behalf of Mr. Hunt, his widow and his remaining four children.
Sincerely,
The Hunt Estate and the Hunt Family
Sounds like someone hit a little too close to home.
Hunt was a master at CIA tactics, especially disinformation. This is just a final wink on the way out.
The truth is that it was the pentagon. Who actually played out the roles is almost irrelevant. Johnson was as much a pawn as oswald.
Kennedy was going to end the cold war; they shot him in the face. Simple as that. All the rest is party conversation.
And they are still in power today.
The Hunt Estate | Thursday April 5, 2007 | #
If you believe what is written above, I have a magic bullet I want to tell you about. The truth is my fathers second family which came about post kennedy,post watergate and post prison never knew the person that his first four children knew. We weren’t allowed to bring up anything about the past in front of his new wife and children. It is as if he was reborn, he knew the mistakes he made with his first family and did not wish to repeat. I can understand that. My father purposely kept them in the dark because when he was released from prison he had changed. For them to comment on what he disclosed to either me or my brother in private is mute because it didn’t involve them. The truth is my father asked me to find someone interested in doing a book project. I did that and the only ones to benefit from that book were Laura, Hollis and Austin Hunt. I didn’t even receive a finder’s fee. The biggest omission of the above comment is that I brought Eric Hamberg on board because I knew that this information coming me or my brother would be suspect and our past would be used to discredit us. Eric Hamberg was the man responsible for the passage of the Kennedy records act of 1992. He is a seeker of TRUTH and beyond suspicion of making up history for profit. It was only after Eric interviewed my father and reported back to me that there was in fact new and important information about JFK that I believed. In closing people that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You have far more to lose than either me or my brother should I choose to expose the indiscretions and illegal activity I have personally witnessed. Hopefully this will be the last post or comment I read that discredits me or my brother.
To all comment authors purporting to be Hunt family members:
This is fascinating, but since this is an open forum that allows totally anonymous comments, you should establish your own sites or venues where your identities can be more positively confirmed.
Note to all Cryptogon readers: There is no way to know that these posts are or aren’t being written by the named authors. We should, however, expect full time PSYOP tasking for this topic, complete with astroturfing and worse in anonymous fora like Cryptogon comments.
David, if you’re really who you say you are, anonymous comments are probably the worst possible place to make your case.
Fascinating though, isn’t it, how this story attracts some weird shit? Even now. It’s because some of the same criminals are still running the show.
Anonymous? I posted with my name on my comment. I also left my valid email address…..
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