Final_Judgment

[556] Final Judgment 652
As we saw in Chapter 16, it was clearly James Angleton at the CIA
who was responsible for leaking the internal CIA memo that placed Hunt in
Dallas at the time of the assassination, laying the grist for the story that
ultimately resulted in Hunt's libel suit against The Spotlight.
In the opinion of investigative reporter Joe Trento (who, by the way, is a
sworn enemy of The Spotlight newspaper, once having been forced to settle
a libel suit against him by The Spotlight's publisher, Willis Carto) it is likely
not only that Hunt was indeed in Dallas and that it was Angleton who sent him
there. However, Hunt isn't admitting to anything.
It appears to me that Hunt was functioning as a facilitator, so to speak, in
the JFK assassination conspiracy, engaged in Dallas (and in New Orleans)
with some of the other people who were circling around Lee Harvey
Oswald. It's very conceivable that Hunt had no idea that his mission in Dallas
involved an actual assassination plot—perhaps he was only involved in a
"dummy" assassination plot that was manipulated and overtaken by
outside forces and turned into the real thing—and I explored this possibility
in Chapter 16.
Consider this: Although Hunt met up with Miss Lorenz and Frank
Sturgis and money passed from Hunt to Sturgis, this doesn't necessarily
indicate that—even though Sturgis himself later told Lorenz that his team
had been involved in killing the president—that Hunt knew an actual
assassination was in the offing. He may have known—but not necessarily.
However, he put himself in the position where, after the fact, he looked
guilty as Hell, considering the later testimony by Lorenz.
However, we must consider the fact that—whatever happened in
Dallas—Hunt nonetheless later once again teamed up with Frank Sturgis
during the Watergate fiasco that led to the "assassination" of another
president, and in Watergate, too, as we have seen, there was a distinct
Israeli connection, also involving Angleton.
Crank into that the fact—as we now know—that Frank Sturgis was not
only a CIA asset, but had also long been involved in Mossad intrigue, and
we find a very interesting set of wheels within wheels, so to speak.
But Hunt was—and is—a loyal CIA man and he's not admitting to
anything one way or another. And when Hunt needed a witness from the
CIA in his libel trial, it was Angleton's long-time deputy, Newton "Scotty"
Miler, who came to Hunt's rescue. I don't think this is any surprise.
So although it appears that in 1978 the CIA was initially planning to
throw Hunt to the wolves and frame him for involvement in the
assassination—painted as a "rogue" operative—by his former CIA
superiors, by the time his libel trial against The Spotlight came to pass that
he and the CIA reached an accord and they provided him assistance. It
appears that precisely because The Spotlight article unveiled the intended
"limited hangout" aimed against Hunt that the operation was shelved.
Recall that a "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter, ostensibly from Lee Harvey Oswald,
popped up at the time that this "limited hangout" operation was in its
opening stages as the House Assassinations Committee was beginning its
inquiry. I believe that this was another Angleton dirty trick, although a new