E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American
intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in
U.S. regime change in Latin America including the
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion in
Cuba. Along with
G. Gordon Liddy,
Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the
Nixon administration's so-called
White House Plumbers, a team of operatives charged with identifying government
leaks to outside parties.
Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the
Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary,
conspiracy, and
wiretapping, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison. After his release, Hunt lived in
Mexico and then
Miami until his death in January 2007.
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