Howard Hunt Wife Plane Crash – Howard Hunt was an American intelligence officer and author. He has been an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1949 to 1970 in the United States’ involvement in regime change in Latin America. He was one of the Nixon administration plumbers.

He plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations with Liddy for the Nixon administration. He served 33 months in prison because of being convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. As he was relesed from prison, he lived in Mexico and then Florida until his death. 

Howard Hunt Wife Plane Crash

Howard Hunt married twice. First, he was married to Dorothy and then he married schoolteacher Laura Martin. His first wife Dorothy was going to Chicago on United Airlines Flight 553 on 8 December 1972. Before moving on the way to Chicago, she collected hush money and was on her way to Chicago.

There were 61 people in the plane including Michele Clark and Rep. George Collins, founder of the Congressional Black Caucus. Suden The United Airlines Flight 553 crashed on 8 December 1972 because of crew error and 41 people were killed including Howard Hunt’s wife Dorothy.

How did Dorothy Hunt die?

Howard Hunt’s wife Dorothy was on her way to Chicago on United Airlines Flight 553 on 8 December 1972 and the plane crashed and 41 people were killed including Dorothy.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Transportation Safety Board investigated the plane crash and found that the plane crash was due to crew error. In the wreckage, over $10k cash was found in Dorothy Hunt’s handbag.

Dorothy Hunt’s birth name was Dorothy Wetzel. She was born in Ohio on 1 April 1920. She was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after the Second World War. She was posted in Shanghai, China where she met E. Howard Hunt. They both returned to the US and settled in Maryland.

Crash Of Flight 553 Watergate Paymistress Murdered

On 8 December 1972, United Airlines Flight 553 Plane Crash happened on which E. Howard Hunt’s wife Dorothy and other 60 people were in. 48 people met their deaths.

A private investigator in Chicago, Sherman Skolnick testified at hte National Transportation Board hearing on the crash and he managed to obtain the government’s records on the crash.

He testified that there was sabotage, murder, and robbery involved in United Airlines Flight 553’s fatal end. Skolnick denounced the hearings board, saying,

“The Board is Nixon’s puppets – like the Warren Commission, they will ignore their own records in order to continue saying that the Watergate plane crash was an ‘accident ‘.”

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