Declassified: The CIA "Oswald" and Mexico City

[Jim Hargrove]

Jim:

In Destiny Betrayed, second edition, I do spend a lot of time on Howard Hunt.

Hey, I've only got the half-as-good first edition of Destiny Betrayed. Doesn't the publisher offer us an upgrade price? <g>

And although there is no doubt that Hunt was in Mexico for years, once working with Bill Buckley down there, I could never nail down the rumor that he was temporary station chief in September and October of 1963.

That is in Tad Szulc's book Compulsive Spy. That book is loosely referenced, of course, because its a bio of a spook.

But from the documentary record, and from witness testimony in the Lopez Report, it looks like Scott was there, not Hunt. I think Szulc was misled.

Bummer. I want to see Hunt hanged in the history books right next to Phillips for this crime. John has what looks like a magazine page scanned on the H&L disk with an article by David Giammarco (described as a "Toronto-based journalist") claiming Hunt was temporary Station Chief, and the only other reference I've seen is to that Cigar Aficionado article. Were you able to check out those sources?

This does not mean of course that Hunt was not in on the JFK hit. I think he was. But just that he was not MC Station Chief at the time.

Isn't it fascinating about Phillips though? I mean:

1. He is one of the guys running the anti FPCC campaign, which Oswald is part of in New Orleans.

2. He is then seen with LHO in Dallas at the Southland Center.

3. He then lies his head off about MC to cover up the crap Goodpasture is doing to make it appear that LHO is there.

4. He later confesses to his brother he was in Dallas on the day of the assassination.

5. He then uses his foreign assets to try and incriminate Oswald as a commie hit man after the fact.

I can't wait to see what new stuff Newman has on him in his trilogy. I just ordered part one of it.

Hope you'll have a review up asap. Phillips looks pretty bad here, and so does Hunt, even if he wasn't in charge at the MC Station. Finally, though you've probably seen it already, thought you might get a kick out of this: