Is Howard Hunt Credible on JFK's Assassination?

The Watergate burglar spoke of a CIA plot. What's the evidence?

Former CIA officer and Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt testified to Congress in September 1973. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

(Author’s note:  This article is an edited version of the afterword to the book “Bond of Secrecy,” written by St. John Hunt, son of Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt. It is based on a series of interviews which St. John and I conducted in 2005. These inaccurately have become known as Hunt’s “deathbed confession.” In fact, the interviews took place two years before Hunt’s death, and were not a true confession.  Nevertheless, Hunt said many interesting and suggestive things, both in the interviews and in a handwritten memo. His claims should be treated with appropriate skepticism, but I will let the readers draw their own conclusions.) 

How much of Howard Hunt’s scenario for the assassination of JFK holds up under examination?  

Perhaps surprisingly, much of it does. The people that he names as part of the plot are, for the most part, people whose names have cropped up over and over again in the assassination literature. There is substantial evidence to implicate them in a plot to kill JFK. For this reason, Hunt’s revelations are more credible than they might otherwise be. A review of the literature indicates why this is so.