Reply #50: Much stranger and more involved: Maybe she was about to tell all about JFK's assassination

[HamdenRice]

Howard Hunt had been using his wife, Dorothy, as an intermediary, to carry out negotations with the Nixon White House to provide support and hush money to Howard and the other members of the White House "plumbers" who planned and carried out the Watergate burglery and who were at that time, already under indictment.

The Hunts allegedly had documents showing that Nixon and the CIA were involved in the JFK assassination. As a result of Dorothy's pressure on Nixon aide Chuck Colson (who had hired Hunt to form the plumber unit) and Attorney General Mitchell, it was arranged for Hunt to receive $250,000.

On December 8, 1972, Dorothy met with CBS News journalist Michelle Clark and Chicago Congressman George Collins. Michelle Clark was covering Watergate for CBS News, and was very familiar with those events as well as CIA activities because Clark's boyfriend was a CIA operative.

Dorothy Hunt, Michelle Clark and Rep. Collins all flew from Washington to Chicago on the same flight 533. Hunt had about $10,000 in her purse, reputedly for distribution among some of the plumbers unit members as payoff.

The plane crashed in Chicago. Nixon aid Colson told Time Magazine, "I don't say this to my people. They'd think I'm nuts. I think the CIA killed Dorothy Hunt."

Shortly thereafter, Hunt agreed to plead guilty and served 33 months in federal prison.

No wonder the Hunt kids went a little crazy after that.