Howard Hughes

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Person.png Howard Hughes   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman, filmmaker)
BornDecember 24, 1905
DiedApril 5, 1976 (Age 70)
Cause of death
air crash
NationalityUS

Howard Robard Hughes Jr.was an American aerospace engineer, businessman, filmmaker, investor, [[philanthropist, and pilot.[1] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

CIA

According to Bernard Barker Hughes worked withE. Howard Hunt in the secret CIA war against Fidel Castro. This included Operation Mongoose and Operation Pluto. This included Hughes making available his Sal Cay island in the Bahamas. The Miami Herald reported on 25th August 1963: "Cay Sal has served a dual purpose, as a rendezvous and arms storehouse for exile raiders, and, for anti-Castro refugees, the first stop to freedom, a gateway similar to the Berlin Wall to anti-Communist East Germans."[2]

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