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Hunt, who admitted earlier to forging telegrams designed to link President Kennedy with the Diem assassination, said he had forged the cables only after finding large gaps in State Department records.
"It became clear to me, from the State Department files, that a number of cables were missing," Hunt said. "That is to say that the chronological files did not contain cables in chronological sequence."
Whoever copied the documents for the Kennedy Library, Hunt said, "would also have had the opportunity to remove any cables that could have been embarassing to the Kennedy legatees."
Dan H. Fenn Jr. '46, director of the Kennedy Library, said yesterday, "There is no reason to draw the implication that the people were plucking cables."
Even though his own agents at the time were searching for Hunt to quiz him about Watergate, Gray obediently took these files home, put them in a closet over the weekend, then carried them to his office and discarded them in a "burn bag" to be destroyed. Although some other...