Final_Judgment

290 Double Cross in Dallas? [229]
"As for my personal views on the CIA's involvement in JFK's
assassination, I do not (repeat do not) believe that the CIA had anything to
do with the young president's murder.
"But it was and still is involved with the government's cover-up of the
conspiracy . . .
"Finally, E. Howard Hunt had nothing to do with JFK's assassination.
Hunt was in Dallas that day by accident. He was working on another case.
But his presence there was an embarrassment to the CIA and a potential
threat to the government's cover-up of the conspiracy." 609
Marchetti's earlier controversial article in The Spotlight, as we have
pointed out, never suggested that Hunt had actually been in Dallas or that he
played a part in the assassination—only that the CIA was considering the
option of framing Hunt for the president's murder.
And, as we have seen, it was Israel's contact at the CIA, James J.
Angleton who was behind the impending operation against Hunt. However,
Marchetti's final comment about Hunt's possible appearance in Dallas is
interesting, particularly in light of what we are about to consider.
WAS HUNT A FALL GUY?
There is evidence that Hunt, in fact, may have been inadvertently caught
up in intrigue involving the JFK assassination conspiracy—intrigue beyond
his own control. There have been suggestions that perhaps Hunt was not
actively involved in a genuine assassination plot against Kennedy—as
indeed as suggested in Trento's aforementioned article—and that he was in
Dallas for another purpose entirely.
Our source for this little-known information is Gary Wean, formerly of
the Los Angeles Police Department's criminal intelligence squad. It was in
Chapter 13 that we first became acquainted with Wean who detailed his own
dealings and surveillance of Meyer Lansky's Hollywood henchman, Mickey
Cohen.
(Wean, it will be recalled, learned that Cohen, along with his Israeli
contact, Menachem Begin, later prime minister of Israel, was especially
concerned with JFK's Middle East policy and that, in fact, Cohen was using
JFK's mistress, actress Marilyn Monroe, as a conduit in an attempt to learn
the president's intentions toward Israel.)
THE COP, THE MOVIE STAR & THE SHERIFF
It was shortly after the JFK assassination that Wean stumbled upon
information relating to the president's murder—information that sheds new—
and interesting—light on how E. Howard Hunt may have come to be implicated
in the crime of the century.
According to Wean, it was just several weeks after the president's
murder that he (Wean) happened to become acquainted with Dallas Sheriff
Bill Decker through their mutual friend, Audie Murphy, the ex-war heroturned-film
star. Decker was visiting in Los Angeles and the three men got