The Mongol Mask

9 October 1918 – 23 January 2007

E. Howard Hunt was born in Hamburg, New York, of English and Welsh descent. He attended Nichols School in Buffalo, New York and in 1940 he graduated from Brown University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, in the United States Army Air Forces, and then the Office of Strategic Services, which he served in China. During the war, his first novel, East of Farewell (1942), was published. In 1949, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and in 1950 he was stationed in Mexico City and worked on the plan to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, the president of Guatemala. He was later stationed in Japan, Uruguay, and then returned to the United States to org…