Hardcover, Missing jacket. 1973, Simon & Shuster, N.Y. The Book is en good shape, only have a light water mark in the bottom that go through some pages. minor wear on edges spine. Good copy for it age. (please see the pictures) Cja. 530.
E. Howard Hunt was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the Nixon White House "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks." Hunt, along with Liddy, engineered the first Watergate burglary, and other undercover operations for Nixon. In the ensuing Watergate Scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
Howard Hunt is probably one of the most infamous spooks in American history, and this book of his completely validates this perception.
This is a memoir of a man who tried to play god and failed - a man who manipulating massive groups of people and heated emotions in an attempt to remake the Western Hemisphere, to “fix” an event he saw as an error.
This book gives some great insight into the Bay of Pigs operation specifically, but large portions of it just read like the manifesto of the psycho who would go on to kill JFK a couple years later.