In the "smoking gun" tape which helped drive him from office, President Richard Nixon said this of Hunt: "You open that scab there's a hell of a lot of things." He then instructed Chief of Staff H.R. However, the people he names have all been suspects in the assassination for some time, and many of them worked closely together in anti-Castro operations. In the tape excerpt made available so far, Hunt made no claims which would prove his allegations. Hunt says he declined active participation but did have a "benchwarmer" role in the plot. Hunt's chart included an unnamed French hit man on the infamous grassy knoll. Cord Meyer, a high-level CIA officer whose ex-wife Mary Meyer was having an affair with JFK.Harvey fell out of favor with the Kennedys when he sent sabotage teams into Cuba during the 1962 Missile Crisis. William Harvey, a CIA officer who ran the ZR/RIFLE "executive action" program.Veciana told the HSCA that a "Maurice Bishop," thought by many to be Phillips, pointed out Lee Harvey Oswald to him. Antonio Veciana, Cuban exile leader of Alpha 66.Phillips was assigned to Mexico City during the mysterious trip of Lee Harvey Oswald, or someone using his name, to that city in the fall of 1963. David Phillips, CIA propaganda specialist and later Chief of Western Hemisphere Division.Morales himself told a few close associates of his involvement. David Morales, Chief of Operations at the CIA's JMWAVE station in Miami.Sturgis was one of the Watergate burglars. Frank Sturgis, an anti-Castro paramilitary closely associated with Hunt.In notes and conversations with his son Saint John, and in an audiotape he created in 2004 to be played after his death, Hunt described being invited into the "big event" at a Miami safehouse in 1963.
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Before his death in January 2007, CIA master spy and convicted Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt confessed to being peripherally involved in the assassination of President Kennedy, and named several other participants.