“the stunning taped deathbed confession of E. Howard Hunt”
Wow, a deathbed confession! How utterly convincing! Too bad he couldn’t point to any actual evidence while he was at it.
Especially the segments about him and the JFK Assassination prior to Saint John Hunt info this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
***the stunning taped deathbed confession of E. Howard Hunt”
Wow, a deathbed confession! How utterly convincing! Too bad he couldn’t point to any actual evidence while he was at it.***
If Hunt had made his statement in public to the Warren Commission, or to the House Assassinations Committee, or even just on Sixty Minutes, the results would have been explosive. Since so much time has passed and Hunt is dead, it has had little effect.
Here is a link to the audio:.
http://www.saintjohnhunt.com/testament.html.
and here is a transcript of what Hunt said:
I heard from Frank [Sturgis] that LBJ had designated Cord Meyer, Jr. to undertake a larger organization while keeping it totally secret. Cord Meyer himself was a rather favored member of the Eastern aristocracy. He was a graduate of Yale University and had joined the Marine Corps during the war and lost an eye in the Pacific fighting.
I think that LBJ settled on Meyer as an opportunist like himself and a man who had very little left to him in life ever since JFK had taken Cord's wife as one of his mistresses. I would suggest that Cord Meyer welcomed the approach from LBJ, who was after all only the Vice President at that time and of course could not number Cord Meyer among JFK's admirers—quite the contrary.
As for Dave Phillips, I knew him pretty well at one time. He worked for me during the Guatemala project. He had made himself useful to the agency in Santiago, Chile where he was an American businessman. In any case, his actions, whatever they were, came to the attention of the Santiago station chief and when his resume became known to people in the Western hemisphere division he was brought in to work on Guatemalan operations.
Sturgis and [David] Morales and people of that ilk stayed in apartment houses during preparations for the big event. Their addresses were very subject to change, so that where a fellow like Morales had been one day, you'd not necessarily associated [sic] with that address the following day. In short, it was a very mobile experience.
Let me point out at this point, that if I had wanted to fictionalize what went on in Miami and elsewhere during the run up for the big event, I would have done so. But I don't want any unreality to tinge this particular story, or the information, I should say. I was a benchwarmer on it and I had a reputation for honesty.
I think it's essential to refocus on what this information that I've been providing you — and you alone, by the way — consists of. What is important in the story is that we've backtracked the chain of command up through Cord Meyer and laying [sic] the doings at the doorstep of LBJ. He, in my opinion, had an almost maniacal urge to become President. He regarded JFK, as he was in fact, an obstacle to achieving that. He could have waited for JFK to finish out his term and then undoubtedly a second term. So that would have put LBJ at the head of a long list of people who were waiting for some change in the executive branch.
Was Hunt telling the truth? The CIA's files would shed much light on that. Despite federal law to the contrary, millions of pages of documents were held back from the Assassinations Records Review Board.
Beyond question, the CIA engaged in a massive cover up in regard to the Kennedy assassination. Indeed, the CIA’s own internal investigation was subverted by the withholding of key evidence by CIA Director Richard Helms. Why?
Prof. George Blakely, the former chief of staff of the House Assassinations Committee, was long regarded by many as an easy touch for CIA explanations and evasions. Several years ago though, Blakely called for the reopening of the Kennedy assassination investigation when it was learned definitively that the CIA had lied about their support for Cuban exile group DRE, which was suspected of having a role in the assassination. Why the CIA cover up about their support for DRE?
During the House Assassinations Committee investigation, witness Anthony Venciana, a Cuban who was active in the anti-Castro effort, testified that a CIA officer with the cover name of Maurice Bishop as having met with Oswald in Dallas.
A police artist who was brought in produced a sketch that was an uncanny match for CIA officer David Atlee Phillips. Venciana later confirmed the identification after meeting Phillips again. On private information, I know for certain that Maurice Bishop was indeed Phillips’ cover name. What was his meeting with Oswald about?
We know now that contrary to prior testimony from the CIA, Oswald was monitored by the CIA’s counterintelligence section and that the CIA covered up and destroyed evidence about Oswald's trip to Mexico. Why?
These and similar questions are unlikely to ever be answered in a satisfactory manner -- which is what keeps the Kennedy assassination a matter of enduring controversy.