Dorothy Hunt Dies In Plane Crash

She was on a flight with a CBS newswoman and a satchel full of payoff money.

Dorothy Hunt, wife of the Watergate burglar E.Howard Hunt Dies In Firey United AirlinesFlight 533 Crash Along With Over 11 Watergate Figures.

Mrs. Hunt got on Flight 553 with CBS newswoman, Michele Clark who was going to do an exclusive story on Watergate. Mrs. Hunt was known to be carrying a large sum of cash perhaps extorted from top republicans over the Watergate scandal.

Also on board was a reputed "hit-man" and going under the "cover" of being a top Narcotics official with DALE (Drug Abuse Law Enforcement). He used the name Harold R. Metcalf. He is an unusual "narc"; he worked directly for Nixon.

Metcalf told the pilot he was packing a gun near the stewardesses' jump seat and also near the food galley and the rear door of the plane. After the crash he walked out of the firey wreckage wearing a jumpsuit.

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