WATERGATE/E. HOWARD HUNT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01482044
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: April 9, 1974

Approved for Release: 2017/01/18 C01482044
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9 April 1974
Watergate/E. Howard Hunt
1. On the evening of 8 April Mr. E. Howard Hunt telephoned
me for a three quarters of an hour social chat. Inasmuch as there
has been desultory social contact with him since my last memorandum
to you on this subject, and inasmuch as my eldest son has spent
several days during this time working on the subject's grounds to
prepare the Potomac estate for sale, I feel it necessary to update
my reporting.
2. His volume of memoirs has reached a length of approximately
350 pages, but NY. Hunt expects to have a total of between 500 and 600
pages for publication. He admits not having leavened the work with
light touches of humor, so I gather it will be heavy with outraged
self-justification. During the latter part of this month he will
give a speech in Omaha, Nebraska, spelling out his reactions to, and
thoughts on, his prison experiences. The conservative editorialist,
Mr. William F. Buckley, godfather to three of Mr. Hunt's children,
has decided against publishing any or all of the speech in his regular
column on the grounds that the speech is "replete with cliches".
3. During the call I noted two suspicious incidents of unusual
sound patterns on the wire, from which I gather that MY. Hunt's
unlisted telephone is tapped. The following, however, was not obtained
by phone, but by my son during conversations with his employer in the
course of his work on Mr. Hunt's grounds. The latter told my son that
in the recent Hunt family trip to Miami, Florida, they stayed in the
same hotel as the Presidential entourage, and that he met and talked
to both General Haig and Mr. Ronald Ziegler.
4. Please advMii yt;Tu;rishiAtefto address further memoranda
to you, or to new referent on this matter in light of recent DDO
instructions on Watergate Agency file review.
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