E. Howard Hunt
| E. Howard Hunt | |
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| Allegiance | United States 
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| Service | OSS, CIA, President's Special Investigations Unit (White House Plumbers) |
| Operation(s) |
Operation PBSUCCESS Watergate scandal |
| Codename(s) | Robert Dietrich |
| Gordon Davis | |
| David St. John | |
| Edward Warren | |
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| Birth name | Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. |
| Born |
October 9, 1918 Hamburg, New York, United States |
| Died | January 23, 2007 (aged 88) Miami, Florida, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents | Everette Howard Hunt, Sr. and Ethel Jean Totterdale |
| Spouse | Dorothy Louise Wetzel Laura E. Martin |
| Children | Lisa Tiffany Hunt, Kevan Spence (nee Hunt), Howard Saint John Hunt, David Hunt, Austin Hunt, Hollis Hunt |
| Occupation | CIA officer, author |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and writer. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration "plumbers", a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks" — real or perceived causes of confidential administration information being leaked to outside parties. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration. In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, United States, the son of Ethel Jean (Totterdale) and Everette Howard Hunt, Sr., an attorney and Republican Party official. Hunt graduated from Hamburg High School in 1936, and Brown University in 1940. During World War II Hunt served in the U.S. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, the United States Army Air Forces, and finally, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China.
Hunt was a prolific author, primarily of spy novels. During and after the war, he wrote several novels under his own name — East of Farewell (1942), Limit of Darkness (1944), Stranger in Town (1947), Bimini Run (1949), and The Violent Ones (1950) — and, more famously, several spy and hardboiled novels under an array of pseudonyms, including Robert Dietrich, Gordon Davis and David St. John. Hunt won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing in 1946. Some of his writings found parallels in his Watergate experiences.
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