Howard Hunt | |
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.jpg) Hunt in September 1973 | |
| Born | Everette Howard Hunt Jr. October 9, 1918 Hamburg, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 23, 2007 (aged 88) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) |
| Criminal charge(s) | Conspiracy, burglary, illegal wiretapping |
| Criminal penalty | 2.5 to 8 years Paroled after 33 months |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Wetzel (died 1972) Laura Martin |
| Children | 4 (with Wetzel) 2 (with Martin) |
| Espionage activity | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service branch | United States Navy United States Army Air Forces Office of Strategic Services Central Intelligence Agency White House Plumbers |
| Service years | 1940–1945 (Army) 1949–1970 (CIA) |
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| Operations | 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Brigade 2506 Watergate scandal |
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.