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#HowardHughes

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People (3)

  • Howard Hughes Sole owner of Hughes Tool Company (later Summa Corporation) whose cash gift to Bebe Rebozo, Nevada casino purchases and company name on the CIA's Glomar Explorer run through Senate, court and CIA records.
  • Robert Maheu Robert Maheu was a former FBI agent who became the CIA's primary cutout for sensitive operations requiring criminal networks, recruited Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, and Santo Trafficante Jr. into the CIA's anti-Castro assassination program in 1960, and simultaneously served as Howard Hughes's most trusted executive managing his Nevada operations from 1966 to 1970.
  • Robert Peloquin Justice Department organized crime lawyer who founded the Resorts International subsidiary Intertel in 1970, took over security for Howard Hughes's Nevada casinos that December, and later chaired Resorts International.

Organizations (2)

  • Intertel Private intelligence company formed by Justice Department organized crime lawyers Robert Peloquin and William Hundley as a subsidiary of the Bahamian casino operator Resorts International, staffed from the IRS operation that had investigated the islands.
  • Robert R. Mullen Company Washington public relations firm that gave cover to CIA officers abroad from 1963, hired E. Howard Hunt on his retirement in 1970, represented Howard Hughes, and employed Hunt at the time of the Watergate break-in.

Programs (1)

  • Project Azorian CIA operation of 1969 to 1974 that built the Hughes Glomar Explorer under Howard Hughes's name to raise a sunken Soviet missile submarine, and gave its name to the refusal to confirm or deny.