A CIA officer named E. Howard Huntâlater made infamous for his role in the Watergate break-inâwas in charge of the operation. Huntâs role in the Goldwater caper can be traced back to his involvement in the CIAâs disastrous attempt to depose Fidel Castro by landing a ragtag group of Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Like many agency officers associated with the fiasco, he was put in a kind of purgatory, assigned to a desk job that lacked the excitement or career-advancement potential of foreign clandestine operations.
When the CIA Infiltrated a Presidential Campaign














