CIA Agent E. Howard Hunt admitting composing fraudulent cables

E. Howard Hunt worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Hunt was assigned to temporary duty as the acting CIA station chief in Mexico City for the period of August and September 1963, at the time of Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged visit there. In his 1978 testimony, however, Hunt denied having been in Mexico at all between 1961 and 1970.

Hunt was assigned to forge Cuban exile leaders in the United States into a broadly representative government-in-exile that would, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, form a provisional government to take over Cuba. The failure of the invasion damaged his career.

After the Bay of Pigs, Hunt became a personal assistant to Allen Dulles.

In September 1971, Hunt forged and offered to a Life magazine reporter top-secret State Department cables designed to prove that President Kennedy had personally and specifically ordered the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. Hunt told the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 that he had fabricated the cables to show a link between President Kennedy and the assassination of Diem, a Catholic, to estrange Catholic voters from the Democratic party, after Colson suggested he "might be able to improve upon the record."

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[jacobji5]

E Howard Hunt - CIA - confesses the CIA lied about Kennedy.

The CIA created lies, as it always does to help suppress & destroy our Constitution.

[Boelcke1919]

These murders (especially of Jack and Bobby Kennedy) are a cancer on our country. Mark my words. Until the truth is provided (which the real killers are determined to hide), this evil will keep eroding our country and the faith of the people in the government we supposedly vote for and which we pay taxes to fund. They kill the best we have and then demand we shut up and accept it ... all in the name of "national security."

[newsmanbluesman]

THE MOST GUILTY TESTIMONY ever heard on Capitol Hill on any subject - this plainly was done to cast Dallas as a Diem revenge. Dear Mr Reenberg I've said this for years - film All The Presidents Men underlined it. Altering the cables is mens rea, & worse than LBJ remarks to Cronkite. Only now do I hear the Catholic angle spun by Hunt! Practically doubles my suspicion of this man for Dallas and puts Hunt in the ranks of the Nazis. Consider: Hunt used his deathbed to provide - a limited hang-out.

[usssanjacinto1]

He fabricated the cables so that no one would know who was behind the kennedy assassination.

[metubegirl69er]

LBJ Admits Murder of Diem