Reply #3: Sen Robert Bennett (R-UT) and the Mullen Company

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Thanks melody. It's a good thing we don't have to rely on corporate media for this information. There's a good story about the true mission of the media here and more here. Of course the notable exception in this case is that excellent Rolling Stone article you linked.

Click here for a review and some further background of The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt.

That review noted one clarification from this part of the story:

1970, after being repeatedly molested by a teacher, he broke down and told his mother what was going on. She told his father. And rumor had it that E. Howard came up to St. James with a carload of guns to make the teacher disappear. "He was really, really pissed off," says Saint. "He wanted to kill." In any case, at the school, neither the teacher nor St. John was ever seen again.

That same year, his father retired from the CIA after being relegated to the backwaters for his role in the Bay of Pigs. He went to work as a writer for a PR firm. He was bored and missed the hands-on action of the CIA.The following year, however, his lawyer pal Chuck Colson, who was special counsel to Nixon, called him up with an invitation to join the president's Special Investigations Unit as a kind of dirty-tricks consultant. He signed on. He really thought he was going places...

Here's more on that "PR" firm he "retired" to...

Robert Bennett of the Mullen Company (Hughes’ PR firm, E. Howard Hunt’s ostensible employer, and a CIA front), and Bennett reported back to his CIA handler that Woodward was “suitably grateful” for the information and ran the information without exposing Bennett as the source. If Mark Felt was Deep Throat, he was not Woodward’s only source...

So aside from the obvious edification and enlightenment. The real history is infinitely more interesting than the sanitized crap we get in the media.