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Speaker 1: For his agreement with his father E. Howard Hunt, Saint
Speaker 1: John Hunt held onto that deathbed confession tape that he
Speaker 1: had received in the mail from two thousand and four
Speaker 1: until two thousand and seven and then released it to
Speaker 1: great amount of controversy, mostly because I would think and
Speaker 1: then you tell me different, Saint John. It went back
Speaker 1: to a theory that had been somewhat dormant for a
Speaker 1: long time, that LBJ was responsible for the death of JFK. Right,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a very popular theory, you know, vice president
Speaker 1: plotting for the demise of the president. But in reality,
Speaker 1: there was several things that were It was like the
Speaker 1: perfect storm. There were several things going on at the time.
Speaker 1: Of one thing, he military industrial complex was extremely worried
Speaker 1: about JFK because he was suggesting that that we give
Speaker 1: information of extraterrestrial interaction and UFOs over to the Soviets
Speaker 1: as long as they would be giving us their information
Speaker 1: that they had any Another one was that JFK was
Speaker 1: addicted to methamphetamine and receiving daily injections uh from his doctor. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he was he was really jf He was
Speaker 1: really going off the deep end on in a lot
Speaker 1: of areas, and they just didn't think that if he
Speaker 1: was elected for another few years that he was going
Speaker 1: to be able to maintain his sanity because the Secret
Speaker 1: Service it was having a hard time already keeping JFK
Speaker 1: under control with all the girls he had, and of
Speaker 1: course hyper sexuality is one of the things that meth
Speaker 1: amphetamine affects you with he was he was really on
Speaker 1: the deep end of things. And uh was geveral people
Speaker 1: within the CIA, powerful people like Bill Harvey and uh
Speaker 1: uh David Morales and people like that that were real,
Speaker 1: real killers, and um, you know, it wasn't beyond them
Speaker 1: to you know, in America's quote unquote best interest to
Speaker 1: to remove the president. He didn't have LBJ doing. Of course.
Speaker 1: LBJ was just you know, you own problems. He was
Speaker 1: an instrumental in the death of many Texas legislators earlier on,
Speaker 1: so he was no problem. So my father suggesting that
Speaker 1: j I that LBJ was at the top of the
Speaker 1: line of people that uh that knew about the assassination
Speaker 1: and and and gave it the green light, is is
Speaker 1: really on track. And of course later on people like
Speaker 1: Roger Stone and uh and others wrote books about Jiff
Speaker 1: about the LBK involvement in the assassination. So it was
Speaker 1: it was early on that my father's uggestion came out. Well,
Speaker 1: I know he's a pal of yours, and at one
Speaker 1: point I thought Roger Stone was very amusing. I have
Speaker 1: less of of a positive opinion of him in other respects,
Speaker 1: but um I so I'll leave that for the moment.
Speaker 1: But I do want to say the other thing that they,
Speaker 1: the Inner Circle knew was that JFK had been very
Speaker 1: likely experimenting with drugs such as LSD with Mary Pinchot Meyer,
Speaker 1: Cord Meyer's ex wife, and they had an affair. They
Speaker 1: were having an ongoing sexual relationship that was also an
Speaker 1: affair of the heart as well, and that he would
Speaker 1: regularly go to her place. That I think is beyond debate,
Speaker 1: I think at this point. And that it was her
Speaker 1: diary which was sought by James Angleton of the CIA
Speaker 1: after her assassination along the Towpath in Washington, that she
Speaker 1: which was subsequently destroyed, but that diary was handed over
Speaker 1: by Ben Bradley and his wife to the CIA, And
Speaker 1: he said later on in life he regretted doing that,
Speaker 1: and he wondered at the time whether he should have
Speaker 1: been doing that, But it was like, you're doing what
Speaker 1: he thought again, this was for the good of the country.
Speaker 1: That there they were going to give up the diary
Speaker 1: of Mary Pinchot Meyer to the CIA. If she's writing
Speaker 1: about the president and his drug use. Yeah. The other thing, Mary,
Speaker 1: to Joe Myers, was a close confident of Anthy Leary,
Speaker 1: the LSD great at the time, and she would get
Speaker 1: LSD from him Leary, and do it with JFK. And
Speaker 1: he was his mind was really opened up, and he
Speaker 1: was thinking all these wonderful thoughts of the world peace
Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and it was just too much
Speaker 1: for the military industrial complex to deal with. So, you know,
Speaker 1: she was really taking a big chance in doing this.
Speaker 1: I don't think she ever thought for one second that
Speaker 1: her life was in danger, but as we now know,
Speaker 1: it was in danger and they killed her. For what's
Speaker 1: interesting is your dad kind of makes reference to that
Speaker 1: too here in the tape, because he talks about that
Speaker 1: there was no love lost between cord Meyer and JFK.
Speaker 1: So if LBJ was looking for an operative within the
Speaker 1: CIA that would be willing to go along with an
Speaker 1: assassination of JFK. Then that would be cord Meyer and
Speaker 1: that he even kind of tossed off handedly about about
Speaker 1: Mary Pincho Meyer's death too. What else do you hear
Speaker 1: when you listen to this deathbed confession? Back again, what
Speaker 1: insights do you hear that maybe some of the rest
Speaker 1: of us may miss? Well. He goes through several names,
Speaker 1: and probably a lot of people you know currently don't
Speaker 1: don't really know who some of these names were. But
Speaker 1: for example, Bill Harvey was in nineteen fifty nine, he
Speaker 1: put together the false defector program for the CIA, and
Speaker 1: Lee Harvey Oswald was one of these false defectors to
Speaker 1: Russia through that program, so he knew Oswald and had
Speaker 1: a relationship with that program. He also hated Bobby Kennedy
Speaker 1: because Bobby Kennedy found out that during the height of
Speaker 1: the Cuban missile crisis, Bill Harvey was still sending his
Speaker 1: his guerrilla group over to Cuba to blow up sugarcane
Speaker 1: fields and irrigation systems and that kind of name radio
Speaker 1: station UM and when he when Bobby Kennedy found out
Speaker 1: about that, he u pulled Bill Harvey out of his
Speaker 1: his his area of expertise there and sent him over
Speaker 1: to uh to Annaly, to Rome to be station sheep there. Well,
Speaker 1: as soon as he got to Rome, he got together
Speaker 1: found out who was in his French underground in Rome
Speaker 1: dealing the heroine to Marseille, France, and he got in
Speaker 1: with the Corsican underground and recruited uh Lucien Sarte as
Speaker 1: one of the shooters in the GfK's fascination. So Harvey
Speaker 1: was up to his neck and this whole thing, and
Speaker 1: he hated the Kennedy that just like my dad did.
Speaker 1: And there's another name he mentioned that the Frank Sturge is. Well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't say Sturgis by last name. I'm assuming when
Speaker 1: he says Frank, he means Frank Sturgis his former p
Speaker 1: I C in the CIA. Yeah, Frank was originally fighting
Speaker 1: UM Alongsidecastro. He was in charge of the of the
Speaker 1: casinos in Havana and elsewhere in Cuba. But as soon
Speaker 1: as Castro was leaning towards communism he uh he fled
Speaker 1: in the United States and joined the CIA as a
Speaker 1: contract agent and went about UM doing anti Castro activities.
Speaker 1: Um Frank I met Flankster just several times, and he
Speaker 1: was a very nice guy. On the outside. All these
Speaker 1: guys were very very nice to meet, very polite and
Speaker 1: and such. But underneath the tin layer they were they
Speaker 1: were stone cold killers. Yeah they were. Yeah. I hadn't
Speaker 1: know it at the time, but you know, they really
Speaker 1: kept a good front going. Yeah, and how could you really?
Speaker 1: I mean, and your dad obviously wasn't going to introduce
Speaker 1: him that way. So uh all right, Uh so let's
Speaker 1: play it again. I want to play it again. I
Speaker 1: want to get to the party again. So take some
Speaker 1: notes and then at the bottom of the hour, we'll
Speaker 1: open up the phones for Saint John Hunt. This goes
Speaker 1: back to two thousand and seven, but it's just as
Speaker 1: potent as it is as it was then when we
Speaker 1: hear it now. And I think we should point out
Speaker 1: that all this tape has been examined and historians have
Speaker 1: gone through and vetted it, and as far as I know,
Speaker 1: nobody has ever come out and released anything any analysis
Speaker 1: of the tape that wasn't any worse than inconclusive. Do
Speaker 1: you know if anybody who's come out and figured out
Speaker 1: it's been you know, it's accurate, and it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: he needs to take on his own and and he
Speaker 1: fanancined me. And that's all been verified. Here we go,
Speaker 1: let's play it again. This is the deathbed confession of
Speaker 1: Saint John Hunt's father, E Howard Hunt, on host to
Speaker 1: Coast Am. I heard from Frank that LBJ had designated
Speaker 1: Cordbyer Junior to undertake a larger organization, or keeping it
Speaker 1: totally secret. Cordbuyer himself was a rather favored member of
Speaker 1: the Eastern aristocracy. He was a graduate of Yale University
Speaker 1: and had joined the Marine Corps during the war and
Speaker 1: lost an eye in the Pacific fighting. I think that
Speaker 1: LBJ settled on Meyer as a as an opportunist parent
Speaker 1: like himself, a parent and a man who had very
Speaker 1: little left to him in life. Ever since JFK had
Speaker 1: had taken Cord's wife as one of his mistresses, I
Speaker 1: would suggest that Cordbuyer welcomed the approach from LBJ, who was,
Speaker 1: after all, only the vice president at that time. Of course,
Speaker 1: could not number Cordbyer long JFK's admirers. Quite the contrary.
Speaker 1: After Dave Pelps I knew him pretty well at one
Speaker 1: time he worked for me during the Guatemala project. He
Speaker 1: had made himself useful to the agency in Santiago, Chile,
Speaker 1: where he was an American businessman. In any case, his actions,
Speaker 1: whatever they worked, came to the attention to the Santiago
Speaker 1: station chief, and when his resume became known to people
Speaker 1: in the Western Hemisphere Division, he was brought in to
Speaker 1: work on Guatemala the operations, spurs and Morales and people
Speaker 1: of that Yelk stayed in apartment houses during his preparations
Speaker 1: for the big event, as their addresses were very subject
Speaker 1: to change, so that Quera Fellow, like Willis, had been
Speaker 1: one day, you not necessarily associated with that same address
Speaker 1: in the following game, and short of was a very
Speaker 1: mobile experience. Let me point out at this point that
Speaker 1: if I had wanted to fictionalize what went on in
Speaker 1: Miama and elsewhere during a ruma for the big event,
Speaker 1: I would have done so. But I don't want any unreality.
Speaker 1: The tinge and this particular a story or the information.
Speaker 1: I should say I was a bench warmer on it,
Speaker 1: and I had a reputation for honesty. I think it's
Speaker 1: a sense of the refocus on what this information that
Speaker 1: I've been providing you and you alone. By the way,
Speaker 1: consists of What is important in the story is that
Speaker 1: we've backtracked the chain of command up through through the
Speaker 1: Cordmyer and laying me the doings at the doorstep of LBJ. He,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, had a and almost maniacal urge to
Speaker 1: become president. He regarded as JFK as a as he
Speaker 1: was in fact an obstacle to achieving that. He could
Speaker 1: have waited for JFK to finish out his term and
Speaker 1: then undoubtedly a second term. So that would have put
Speaker 1: the LBJ at the head of a long list of
Speaker 1: people who were waiting for some change in the executive bridge.
Speaker 1: As a sidebar, Saint John Hunt, who do you think
Speaker 1: has it ever occurred to you who was who was
Speaker 1: responsible for the death of Mary Pinshall Meyer. Um, I've
Speaker 1: given it some thought, and I you know, I have
Speaker 1: no evidence to suggest anything anyone in particular, but I
Speaker 1: think it was a standalone operational group within the cia UH,
Speaker 1: and it could have been an offshoot of their Operation
Speaker 1: forty group which Bill Harvey started, which was a group
Speaker 1: of assassins UH that went around the world internationally and
Speaker 1: took care of various politicians, the presidents and such that
Speaker 1: who's feelings weren't in line with the United States feelings. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, there there were these guys were lots and
Speaker 1: loaded and ready to go after anybody you know that
Speaker 1: was that was pointed to and say, yeah, you have
Speaker 1: to get this lady her. She had the diary as
Speaker 1: Maril Monroe had a diary that listed h JFK's drug
Speaker 1: youth and Marilyn's diary listed to his involvement with her sexually.
Speaker 1: And um, you know they were there to protect the
Speaker 1: ideal of the presidency at the extent of the presidents. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think it was a standalone group within the
Speaker 1: CIA of highed assassins that had been wanting, you know,
Speaker 1: globally active for years. Yeah, there's no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind that that's what it was. Your father refers to
Speaker 1: himself as a bench warmer. Um, during the run up,
Speaker 1: if he had been asked to be in Dallas, do
Speaker 1: you they really begged him and said, look, dude, we
Speaker 1: really need you there, would he have been there? And
Speaker 1: he of course it's been long since disproven that he's
Speaker 1: one of the quote three hoboes who was arrested that day,
Speaker 1: But um, do you think he would have changed his mind,
Speaker 1: you could, could anything have changed his mind? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I believe he was in Dallas that day. There
Speaker 1: is a photographs of people walking across the street towards
Speaker 1: the Grassy Knowl and it shows one gentleman in a
Speaker 1: trench coat and had just like my mother had those items.
Speaker 1: And I believe that him, although I had no way
Speaker 1: to prove it. No one's disproved it either. And my
Speaker 1: mother also mentioned to me at one point that that
Speaker 1: Papa was in Dallas during that time, So you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty I think it's pretty obviously he did go
Speaker 1: to Dallas just he was been the guy that knew
Speaker 1: the escape routes, that had the codes for uh, you know,
Speaker 1: calling people to you know, to clean up the operation
Speaker 1: and that type of thing. I think he got sucked
Speaker 1: into it more than he was willing to say on
Speaker 1: that tape. Something that's part of the team as an
Speaker 1: active member of the team, but that is sitting on
Speaker 1: the sidelines waiting for his call. And I think he
Speaker 1: was there in a sort of an active, semi inactive
Speaker 1: role as someone that could be trusted because he did
Speaker 1: say he was known for his honesty and his trustworthiness
Speaker 1: and he was trusted by these people to carry out
Speaker 1: this operation. Now, interestingly enough, a man has come forward,
Speaker 1: Tosh Plumley, who was a pilot for the CIA in
Speaker 1: the Miami UH sector and said that he flew my
Speaker 1: father two dolls that day. So that's interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: newer item that's come up, even though your father denied it. Yeah,
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