The Occult Conspiracy by Michael Howard6/30/2023 (Hunt is a bit more cagey about the fact that he drew this assignment because he was essentially persona non grata at Langley after his intimate involvement in the Bay of Pigs disaster.) Essentially exiled to the division of the CIA that focused on foreign pro-Western propaganda, Hunt found himself a series of minor contract positions at duty stations like Madrid, Spain before returning to the United States to focus on writing full-time. Given this authorial history, Hunt alleges in his autobiography, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond (2007), that Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms encouraged Hunt to create “ the American counterpart to… James Bond” in order to cultivate positive public opinion of the CIA. Hunt had been writing crime and espionage novels since the ’40s, under his own name and various pen names. Howard Hunt penned a series of pulp spy novels in the ’60s and early ’70s under the pseudonym David St. Longtime CIA operative, Nixon White House “plumber,” and Watergate conspirator E.
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