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MIAMI – E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon’s presidency, died Tuesday. He was ...

The man who planned the Watergate break-in that eventually brought down President Richard Nixon sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had “executive authorization,” ...

E. Howard Hunt, mastermind of the Watergate break-in, has died at 88. Bitter over his treatment, E. Howard Hunt lived his final years in a modest home in Miami. A memoir is due out next month. A man ...

MIAMI -- E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died Tuesday. He was ...

E. Howard Hunt may hold a controversial niche in American history, but mourners at his funeral Monday expressed only admiration for the man who helped organize the Watergate break-in. "He was a great ...

MIAMI — E. Howard Hunt, a mastermind of the 1972 Watergate break-in that brought down the Nixon presidency and afflicted U.S. politics with its most notorious scandal, died Tuesday of complications ...

A new HBO “slapstick tragedy” mostly avoids the Oval Office in favor of the men who actually executed the infamous burglary that brought down a president. By Adam Nagourney LOS ANGELES — On June 17, ...

The upcoming HBO limited series from 'Veep' showrunner David Mandel tells the story of Watergate masterminds E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux). By Jackie Strause Managing Editor ...

MIAMI - He served as a Navy and CIA officer, and helped orchestrate a coup in Guatemala and the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, but E. Howard Hunt is best known as something he always said he wasn't: a ...

E. Howard Hunt, 88, the shadowy former CIA man who organized the Watergate break-in and other “dirty tricks” that ultimately brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, died of complications from ...