LIDDY SAYS HE WOULD HAVE KILLED IF ORDERED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403710003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 31, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATION~
31 October 1986
LIDDY SAYS HE WOULD HAVE KILLED IF ORDERED
WASHINGTON
G. Gordon Liddy said in an interview published Fr ay a he would have
killed columnist Jack Anderson and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt had he been
ordered to do so.
Liddy, a disbarred lawyer and former FBI agent who served 51 months in prison
for his part in the Watergate break-in, said in an interview with LISA Today that
the deaths of Anderson and Hunt, suggested but never carried out, would have
been justified because of "intelligence " considerations.
Published reports in 1975 said a "senior official in the Nixon White House "
ordered Anderson to be killed and his death to be made to look accidental. Liddy
said the decision to ga ahead had to be taken "from a much higher level than I
was " and subsequently was not made.
" If the order had come, would you have carried it out? " Liddy was asked.
" Yes, that's correct, " he replied.
Liddy said concern about Anderson and Hunt had nothing to do aith politics or
the re-election of President Richard Nixon.
''It has solely to do with matters of intelligence, " Liddy said. " It was
not until an Anderson column caused the death of one of our intelligence people
posted abroad that that thought was even entertained. "
Mo precise explanation was offered for Hunt, the former CIA agent who also
went to jail for Watergate and is now a writer of spy navels.
Before the Anderson order was abandoned, Liddy said, he was ordered to
discuss the problem with " Dr. Edward Gunn of the CIA' to come up with a
recommendation that would "guarantee -- that was the operative word -- that
Anderson would not repeat that conduct."
He described Gunn as "the CIA's assassination expert. "
Liddy said he had just finished appearing in the television program
" Airwolf, " and making a second episode for "Miami Vfce " and planned to make
a movie in Chile and another in Cyprus. He also runs the G. Gordon Liddy Academy
of Corporate Security in Florida and commands the Hurricane Force, a ggroup of
professional soldiers "organized to perform extraction missions tin~7hird
World countries) for private parties. "
Liddy declined to say whether his force had been contacted by the families of
the American hostages in Lebanon.
His academy trains applicants in the art of self-defense and survival,
including how to live off the land.
"Every single day, our special forces persons are eating grubs, ants,
locusts, rats, anything they can catch. They are not taught just to survive out
there, but to be able to prevail -- to win -- over their enemies. "
Though Liddy said just about any fur-bearing animal is edible, he warned
against eating polar bear liver. " It is highly toxic to humans, " he said.
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