User:James Everett

James A. Everett is a retired deep cover CIA intelligence officer and author of "The Making and Breaking of an American Spy." His departure from the Agency was occassioned by the Watergate scandel when he became an innocent victim of Howard Hunt's creation of "The Plumber's Unit" that engineered the break-in of the Democratic Party's headquarters in the Watergate office/residence complex. At the time Mr. Hunt was employed by the Washington, D.C. based Robert R. Mullen public relations agency which was also being used by the CIA as a cover employer for Mr. Everett who, at the time, was stationed in Amsterdam, Holland. This relationship was revealed during the Congressional Select Committee investigations of the Watergate affair.

Mr. Everett then founded a full-service advertising/public relations/marketing agency in Kansas City, Missouri and became active in the peace community. He served 8 years as the volunteer Kansas City Interfaith Peace Alliance and received Kansas City's annual Citizen of the Year Award.

He presently serves as a columnist with a weekly column called, "On My Mind" for the Independence Examiner, located in Independence, Missouri which calls itself "The only daily newspaper in Jackson County."