Everette Howard Hunt Biography and Timeline

Birth of Everette Howard Hunt

Birth of Everette Howard Hunt

CIA Employment Begins

Hunt entered CIA service and began a career in covert operations and political action that continued until his retirement in 1970.

Role range: 1949-1970

Office of Policy Coordination Assignment

Hunt joined the Office of Policy Coordination, where his work focused on covert political action, influence, and psychological operations.

Role range: 1949-1970

Special Activities Division

Joins the Special Activities Division

Chief of Station

Appointed Chief of Station in Mexico City

William F. Buckley Supervision

Hunt supervised William F. Buckley Jr. during Buckley's CIA service in Mexico, beginning a friendship that lasted for decades.

Role range: 1950-1952

PBSUCCESS Planning Assignment

Hunt became involved in planning political and psychological warfare for the CIA operation that targeted the government of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz.

Role range: 1953-1954

Voice of Liberation Oversight

Hunt oversaw psychological-warfare projects that included the clandestine Voice of Liberation broadcasts directed at Guatemala.

Role range: 1953-1954

PBSUCCESS Political Warfare Concludes

Arbenz resigned as the CIA-backed operation reached its decisive stage, ending the political-warfare campaign in which Hunt had served.

Role range: 1953-1954

Guatemala Psychological Warfare Campaign

Hunt's propaganda work supported a broader CIA psychological campaign designed to magnify the apparent strength of forces opposing Jacobo Arbenz.

Role range: 1953-1954

Operation PBSUCCESS

Supports Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA-backed overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

Anti-Arbenz Print Campaign

Hunt helped oversee anti-Arbenz cartoons, pamphlets, newspaper material, and other propaganda intended to weaken support for Guatemala's government.

Role range: 1953-1954

PBSUCCESS Propaganda Leadership

Hunt handled propaganda responsibilities for Operation PBSUCCESS as the CIA intensified political and psychological pressure against the Arbenz government.

Role range: 1953-1954

Japan Covert Action Assignment

After his Guatemala work, Hunt served in Japan as a CIA covert-action officer before later assignments in the Western Hemisphere.

Role range: 1955-1956

Uruguay Assignment

Hunt served in Uruguay during his overseas CIA career, working on political and intelligence operations in Latin America.

Role range: 1956-1959

Montevideo Station Work

Hunt continued CIA station work in Uruguay, applying political-action experience gained during earlier assignments in Mexico and Guatemala.

Role range: 1956-1959

Cuban Exile Recruitment

Hunt helps recruit Cuban exiles for political and paramilitary preparation.

Role range: 1960-1962

Exile Recruitment Organised

Hunt helps organise recruitment of Cuban exiles for the covert programme.

Role range: 1960-1962

Cuban Broadcast Facilities Assessment

After visiting Cuba, Hunt recommended disabling major radio and television transmitters around the time of an invasion to hinder government mobilization.

Role range: 1960-1961

Undercover Visit to Cuba

Hunt made an undercover visit to Cuba to assess political conditions, public attitudes, and communications facilities before reporting to CIA superiors.

Role range: 1960-1961

Coral Gables Propaganda Coordination

Hunt visited the Cuba project's Florida headquarters and worked with officers coordinating propaganda aimed at Cuban and Latin American audiences.

Role range: 1960-1961

Cuba Project Political Action Chief

Hunt became chief of political action for the CIA Cuba project and was tasked with organizing an exile political structure to replace Castro's government.

Role range: 1960-1961

Cuban Exile Coalition Formation

Hunt worked with representatives of several Cuban exile organizations to create a political coalition for the anti-Castro operation.

Role range: 1960-1961

Exile Political Front Moves to Miami

Hunt shifted the exile political organization from Mexico to Miami after Mexican scrutiny made continued activity there increasingly difficult.

Role range: 1960-1961

Government-in-Exile Planning

Hunt developed plans for a Cuban government-in-exile that could claim political authority if the invasion succeeded and Castro's government collapsed.

Role range: 1960-1961

Cuban Revolutionary Council Planning

Hunt helped prepare the exile political structure that evolved into the Cuban Revolutionary Council before the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Role range: 1960-1961

Exile Leadership Negotiations

Hunt continued negotiations among rival Cuban exile leaders as the CIA tried to present a unified political alternative to Fidel Castro.

Role range: 1960-1961

Invasion Political Support

As Brigade 2506 landed at the Bay of Pigs, Hunt's political work remained focused on the exile leadership intended to support a post-Castro government.

Role range: 1960-1961

Political Action Planning

Hunt helps organise the political component of the failed exile operation.

Role range: 1960-1962

Government-in-Exile Plan Fails

The defeat of Brigade 2506 ended the immediate plan for the exile political organization Hunt had helped assemble to assume authority in Cuba.

Role range: 1960-1961

Training Moved Abroad

Hunt advises exile contacts that military training must occur outside United States territory.

Role range: 1960-1962

Post-Bay of Pigs Reassignment

After the Bay of Pigs failure, Hunt was reassigned within CIA as the Agency reviewed the operation and reorganized responsibilities.

Role range: 1961-1962

Domestic Operations Division Assignment

Hunt became chief of covert action in CIA's Domestic Operations Division, a position he held during the early 1960s.

Role range: 1962-1966

Domestic Operations Covert Action Work

Hunt continued managing covert-action responsibilities within the Domestic Operations Division during the middle of the 1960s.

Role range: 1962-1966

Domestic Operations Role Concludes

Hunt's period directing covert-action work in the Domestic Operations Division concluded after several years in that assignment.

Role range: 1962-1966

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Later records link Shaw to CIA Domestic Contacts Service reporting.

Project QK ENCHANT

A document surfaced which seemed to imply that Shaw was cleared for "Project QK/ENCHANT.."

Project QK ENCHANT

Other persons cleared for this project include J. Munroe Sullivan, Shaw's "alibi," Peter Maheu (son of Robert), and no less than CIA officer E. Howard Hunt.

Project QK ENCHANT

The nature of this project is still classified; what little information there is suggests that those cleared for the project may possibly have been "unwitting," and that it may have been related to gathering information from businessmen.

CIA Retirement

Hunt voluntarily retired from CIA after more than twenty years of Agency service and later entered private public-relations work.

Role range: 1949-1970