All five burglars were involved in the ill-fated CIA-planned fiasco, the Bay of Pigs, and one supervisor, Howard Hunt, was a leader in that abortive Cuban invasion. Since at the time of Watergate, he worked not only part-time at the White House but also full-time at Mullen and Company, a D.C. public relations firm with known CIA ties, an important issue for journalists to examine would have been whether Hunt was an active CIA agent working undercover during the Watergate burglary. Do we have proof that the Washington Post knew of Mullen and Company’s role? And if it did, was that merely a minor failing in its Pulitzer prize-winning work? Or could this omission have potentially world-changing effect?
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