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104-10103-10374 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/20/1973)

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                                                     20 December 1973

          MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

          SUBJECT:  E. Howard  Hunt


               1. I spoke with Fig Coleman about Hunt's assignment to Spain.
          I had spoken with him back in August when we were inquiring into
          reported activities involving Mrs. Hunt.

               2. Coleman  said that he got out of the War College in May 1964
          (by which he fixed the time), and took over the Iberian desk. Bill
          Ryan was C/EUR  (or was it WE Division at the time). In early autumn
          Ryan said that he had just been inf rmed by the DDP (Karamessines)
          that Hunt was to be assigned t     as DCOS, as a directed assian-
        . ment by Helms. A memo  was prepared and sent to the COS, _
          (now retired). There was nothing further'for about a man  wen Ryan
          called Coleman in and showed him a RYBAT letter fro 41Jstating
          that Ambassador Stanley J. Woodward would not have Hunt in the
          Embassy.

               3. Woodward  had been the Ambassador to Uruguay when Hunt
          was COS Montevideo. He  had a low opinion of Hunt and was counting
          the days until Hunt left. The President of Uruguay visited President
          Eisenhower in the States, at which time he requested a personal favor--
          that Hunt be reassigned to Montevideo. - So Hunt took another tour.
          Woodward was outraged, and had his revenige in 1964 when Hunt was
          to be sent as DCOS to

               4. After a couple of months--early 1965--Ryan called Coleman
          in and, observing that there was more than one way to skin a cat,
          told him that Hunt was going to Spain under nonofficial cover. This
          didn't require anything special, Ryan saying that he didn't know
          much about it. It came to him from Karamessines on Helms' order.
          Hunt was to have the telephone number of the COS, but he would do
          nothing for the station. Hunt was to submit administrative vouchers
          for reimbursement of his expenses and they were to be paid. Coleman
          said he never saw Hunt before he went out. He knows that there was
          no operational reporting, to indicate that Hunt was doing anything.



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