Dorothy Hunt was not a bystander. Ulasewicz testified that most of the secret money went to her and her husband, and that she kept pressing for more. Her husband was the defendant the White House most feared. When she boarded Flight 553 she was carrying $10,000 in hundred-dollar bills. [1]
Strange details followed. FBI agents were at the crash site within hours, and dozens of them, though crashes are not normally the Bureau’s job. Some coroner’s reports mentioned cyanide in the victims. One pathologist used the words “blast injuries”. The flight data recorder had stopped working minutes before the crash. [2][3]
The Chicago activist Sherman Skolnick, in a clipping preserved in the FBI’s own file, called Mrs. Hunt the Watergate “bag woman” and linked the crash to a scandal over a gas pipeline. Also on board was Congressman George Collins. On this reading, a plane carrying a woman who knew where the money went was brought down. [2]
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