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People (4)

• Hassie Hunt Eldest son of H.L. Hunt, an oil finder worth millions at twenty-four, who broke down in the army in 1943 and was lobotomized, and whose trusts were run by his brothers and sisters.
• Paul Rothermel FBI agent who resigned in 1954 to become H.L. Hunt's assistant and security chief, kept up a correspondence with Hoover, and in 1969 was wiretapped by Hunt's sons, who accused him of embezzling millions.
• Ray Hunt Chairman of Hunt Oil and executor of H.L. Hunt's estate who sat on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2009 while his company signed an oil contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government.
• Ruth Ray Hunt Hunt Oil secretary from Idabel, Oklahoma, who bore H.L. Hunt four children from 1943 under the name Wright in a house near his family home, and married him in 1957 after his first wife's death.