Dorothy Hunt, wife of Howard Hunt was killed in a plane crash...she was carrying blackmail money---!

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and documents --

I mentioned to someone here that I'd look for the details on what those investigating
think happened -- i.e., the plane being brought down.

This is from High Treason II, Livingstone/1992.p/b

And, I am paraphasing this -- direct quotes are in quotes.

(By the way, again, I hope this will help allay any notions that "Watergate" was nothing
compared to Bush/Cheney - !!! Besides what's related here, there may have also been
a connection to election steals beginning to be reported in Florida as the computers
began to come in mid-to-late 1960's . . . quite near the time they passed the Voting
Rights Act.

Flight 553 - beg pg 423 a Boeing 737 - 61 passengers and 6 crew members --
Friday 12/8/72 UA flight from Washington National Airport to Chicago.

Howard Hunt couldn't travel - already indicted for Watergate therefore
Dorthy Hunt/former CIA operative was carrying the money to pay off the Watergate Cubans.

Livingstone points to this period in America as repeatng political assassinations,
dead witnesses/coverups, media distortion; evidence stolen, planted, forged.

Livingstone also states . . .
"It is clear that much of the scandal over the Watergate break-in that forced
Nixon to resign revolved around political assassination. John Ehrlichman,
Bob Haldeman, and others indicated this in their writings, which seem greatly
censored (sometimes self-censored), even today."

Further, Livingstone says it's believed that the plane was brought down/sabotaged because
Dorothy was carrying some of Hunt's papers -- some of the most damaging documents.

Interestinng passengers on plane -- Michelle Clark/CBS got word from sources the Hunts might
be getting ready to "blow the White House out of the water." "... before Howard Hunt was
left to twist slowly in the breeze -- "he would bring down every tree in the forest."

James McCord testified that things were at a "crisis stage" with Dorthy wanting out.
Unhappy with having to run all over the country, bribing defendants and witnesses.
Howard Hunt "uneasy" .. wanted confirmation that he would get executive clemency --
sufficient money to cushion any fall he had to take.

There were also three lawyers connected to natural gas and a president of an Omaha bank,
all connected to a gas deal which was being investigated and they fought back with
the "Mitchell papers" which explosed him as having conspired with DOJ to aid their
competitor -- similar to ITT scandal. These lawyers had been "warned that
they would never live to reach Chicago." Schlesinger/A Thousand Days/pg 321.

Plane came in over Chicago -- cloudy -- flying 30 knots too fast but controllers
didn't warn them.

Approach controller "forgot" to give plane a "cleared approach."
Without clearance, pilots would "usually hold at some fix and maintain last assigned altitude
until they got clearance." However, Capt. Wendell Whitehouse, highly experienced pilot,
"stayed on course for a landing at Midway." Something obviously wrong.
O'Hare controllers then passed the flight to those at Midway - 9 miles distant.*
Premature handoff without telling Midway of the flight's excessive speed nor other
in-flight factors.

Per investigators, Midway then told pilot to keep coming in for a landing -
however, at the same time, they told O'Hare they were sending the flight around for a second time.

The plane was also redirected to another runway as it was coming in. No winds/no reason.
Midway wasn't modern airport like O'Hare. This runway had no glidescope/no precision radar
at all and at opposite end of the field - Pilot had no way of knowing its height and angle.
It did have "localizer" -- a signal to the plane re its flight path/relation to the runway.
Just as the plane headed down, "the localizer either stopped working or was somehow lost to
the pilot." Whitehouse radioed asking if localizer was off - however, that request and another
are not in the official reports." NTSB fine print confirms that it was turned off.
Had marker been on it would have permitted pilot to see where he was through the clouds/
3 miles from runway.

3.3 n/m out, Midway waved off 553 fearing it would hit a small plane landing.
But later they said they did it just before plane disappeared from radar.

553 came out 1.7 miles from runway and very wide of it. The stewardess screamed
to passengers to "get down in a crouch!" With the nose "pitched up" and engines
straining, the plane stalled/shuddering - then began to fall over a neighborhood of
one-story bungalows, crash: 2:29 pm. Phone and electric lines cut thru by plane -
whole area blacked out. Plane came in on its belly/some passengers survived.

Immediately -- and without precedent -- the crash site under control of FBI.
"Almost immediate materialization of 'police,' actually plain-clothes, official looking
strangers." Citizens Cmte to Clean up the Courts/Sherman Skolnik investigated.

People in the area saw "FBI types" parked in unmarked cars on side streets - more arrived.
All were in crash area before fire dept.

"The CCCC-famous in Chicago area-charged that immediately over 200 FBI and DIA men came in
and took over the area." They refused to show credentials to anyone, even local police.
John Reed/head NTSB testified FBI agents were interviewing witnesses and listened to
and confiscated the tower tapes before they could. "Chairman Reed indicated to the FBI that
in view of the death of Dorothy Hunt, the above constituted suspicious behavior, and has
raised innumerable questions in the minds of those with legitimae interests in ascertaining
the cause of this accident." Patrick Gray was heading the FBI at this time.

FBI first denied more than a dozen agents-
then admitted to 50 -- then admitted they had done all of that --
Claim: "in cases of possible sabotage, FBI had primary jurisdiction"

Reportedly, also interfered with rescue teams - though screaming from the crash could be heard.
FBI also reversed evacuation moving least-injured out first.
FBI separated out the dead--stripped the dead of all belongings and identification.

There had been a Congressman, George Collins, on the plane and now one of his aides appeared.
Having some old military ID with him he was able to get thru FBI cordon and inside the plane.
This Executive Aide claims “he saw a man in overalls climbing out of the split fuselage of the
Boeing 737.” Further, he recognized the man as an operative of the CIA. Others saw DIA operatives.

OPERATION GEMSTONE charts designed by Liddy and Hunt “diagrammed the illegal manipulationof flight communications and electronic signals.”

Dorothy Hunt was dead but the Federal Drug Agent, Harold Metcalf - who had advised the pilot
he was carrying a gun – survived. Charles Colson/Time Magazine...”I think they killed Dorothy Hunt.”
Howard Hunt got $250,000 in insurance payment on his wife. Dorothy was said to have $10,000 or
$100,000 found in her purse.

Next day, Egil Krogh, head of the “plumbers” was made undersecretary of transportation -
Krogh could now supervise both NTSB and FAA and supposedly witnesses testified to Senate that
Krogh had tried to intimidate NTSB members re Hunt crash Nixon also put Alexander Butterfield
in as head of the FAA. Butterfield had been in charge of the WH secret taping system.
Dwight Chapin/dirty tricks was moved to United Airlines/Chgo as executive. Supposedly Chapin
warned the media off foul-play or cover-up stories ....and if they “failed to obey” he would get
Nixon’s communications czar to break up the networks.

Crash went down as “pilot error” with Captain and two co-pilots blamed by NTSB,
However, NTSB had originally thought plane stalled but couldn’t figure out how that could happen
in level flight. Whitehouse - “one of the best” – was also an experienced stunt pilot.

No info was obtained from the tapes - and suspected they had been altered. Reportedly found by
Sanitation Workers, the tail flight recorder had stopped recording 14 minutes before the crash!

An FAA whistleblower called Skolnick, telling him “553 had been sabotaged and that he was risking
his life to tell him this - people were murdered.” 1300 pages from official crash file of NTSB were
received by Skolnick.

One clue from documents -- pilot’s body contained large amount of cynanide - 4X more than he could
have breathed in from burning plastic from cabin. Five other passengers had also “breathed in too
much cyanide.”

Somehow, two days after the crash, Skolnick’s investigators coordinating with DOJ/Organized Crime
Strike Force found Sarelli Mob had articles from crash – $40,000 more of Dorothy Hunt’s money and
the “Mitchell Papers” taken from lawyer’s briefcase.

One of Skolnick’s investigators also saw “$2 million in American Express money orders, travelers’
checks and postal money orders drawn on National City Bank-NY” Also from Howard Hunt’s 8 cartons
of “White House Horrors” ... some “invaluble written evidence of executive high crimes having to do
with assassinations in North and South America pre-Watergate.”

One witness on the ground reported hearing “a boom” and looking up to see the 737 with one engine
on fire. Hadn’t hit anything yet - about 200 feet off the ground.

Theory: Pressure detonator was used to bring the plane down

*handoff at 5.3 nautical miles out/official report
" at 8.9 miles from airport/unpublished official documentation