Everette Howard Hunt (9 October 1918 – 23 January 2007) was an American CIA intelligence officer and published author of spy novels. Along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of Richard Nixon's "White House Plumbers", and he served 33 months in prison after the Watergate scandal.
Biography[]
Everette Howard Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York on 9 October 1918, and he served in the US Navy during World War II. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration "Plumbers", a team of operatives charged with identifying government sources of national security information leaks to outside parties. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the ensuing Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.