January 24, 2007

• Eureka

  The Dead Shepherd
  starring E. Howard Hunt
  and James Jesus Angleton

  From this morning's
  New York Times:

  

  Tim Weiner in today's New York Times:

  "Mr. Hunt was intelligent, erudite, suave and loyal to his friends....

  Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was born in Hamburg, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 1918, the son
  of a lawyer and a classically trained pianist who played church organ. He
  graduated from Brown University in June 1940 and entered the United States Naval Academy as a midshipman in February 1941.

  He worked as a wartime intelligence officer in China, a postwar spokesman for
  the Marshall Plan in Paris and a screenwriter in Hollywood. Warner Brothers had
  just bought his fourth novel, 'Bimini Run,' a thriller set in the Caribbean,
  when he joined the fledgling C.I.A. in April 1949.

  Mr. Hunt was immediately assigned to train C.I.A.
  recruits.... He moved to Mexico City, where he became chief of station
  in 1950. He brought along another rookie C.I.A. officer, William F.
  Buckley Jr., later a prominent conservative author and publisher, who
  became godfather and guardian to the four children of Mr. Hunt and his wife, the
  former Dorothy L. Wetzel.

  In 1954, Mr. Hunt helped plan the covert operation that overthrew the elected
  president of Guatemala....

  By the time of the coup, Mr. Hunt had been removed from responsibility. He
  moved on to uneventful stints in Japan and Uruguay. Not until 1960 was Mr. Hunt
  involved in an operation that changed history.

  The C.I.A. had received orders from both President
  Dwight D. Eisenhower and his successor, President John F. Kennedy, to
  alter or abolish the revolutionary government of Fidel in Cuba. Mr.
  Hunt's assignment was to create a provisional Cuban government that
  would be ready to take power once the C.I.A.'s cadre of Cuban shock
  troops invaded the island.... 

  He retired from the C.I.A. in 1970 and secured a job with an agency-connected
  public relations firm in Washington. Then, a year later, came a call from the
  White House....

  Mr. Hunt’s last book, 'American Spy: My Secret History in the C.I.A.,
  Watergate and Beyond,' written with Greg Aunapu, is to be published on March 16
  with a foreword by his old friend William F. Buckley Jr.

  Late in life, he said he had no regrets, beyond the Bay of Pigs."

  Related Material:

  Game Boy,
  Philosophy Wars,
  and the following:

  

  Andre Furlani, quoted in
  Log24 on January 19:

  "In his study of The Cantos,
  Davenport defines
  the Poundian
  ideogram as 'a grammar of images,
  emblems, and symbols,
  rather than
  a grammar of logical sequence....
  An idea unifies,
  dominates, and
  controls the particulars that make
  the ideogram'."

  For such an ideogram,
  see Bright Star and the
  (clickable) symbol from
  Philosophy Wars:

  

  
  
  Photo from Miami University site

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