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Seems the whole thing was a setup by Atwater. From the story link below:
I thought there was something fishy about the whole thing from the very beginning, Strother recalled. Lee told me that he had set up the whole Monkey Business deal. I did it! he told me. I fixed Hart. After he called me that time, I thought, My God! Its true!
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Strother talked with Hart this spring; Broadhurst had died about a year earlier. In retrospect, Hart asked, what did Strother make of the whole imbroglio?
Ray said, Why do you ask?? Hart told me, when I called to talk with him about the episode. And I said there are a whole list of coincidences that had been on my mind for 30 years, and that could lead a reasonable person to think none of it happened by accident.
Ray replied, Its because you were set up. I know you were set up.
I asked him how he could be so certain, Hart told me. Strother then recounted his long-ago talk with Atwater, and Atwaters claim that the whole Monkey Business weekend had occurred at his direction. According to Hart, that plan would have involved: contriving an invitation from Broadhurst for Hart to come on a boat ride, when Hart intended to be working on a speech. Ensuring that young women would be invited aboard. Arranging for the Broadhurst boat Hart thought he would be boarding, with some unmemorable name, to be unavailableso that the group would have to switch to another boat, Monkey Business. Persuading Broadhurst to forget to check in with customs clearance at Bimini before closing time, so that the boat unexpectedly had to stay overnight there. And, according to Hart, organizing an opportunistic photo-grab.
There were a lot of people on the dock, people getting off their boats and wandering up and down on the wharf, Hart told me. While I was waiting for Broadhurst and whatever he was working out with the customs people, I sat on this little piling on the pier. Hart said that Donna Rices friend and companion on the boat, Lynn Armandt, was standing a short distance away. Miss Armandt made a gesture to Miss Rice, and she immediately came over and sat on my lap. Miss Armandt took the picture. The whole thing took less than five seconds, with lots of other people around. It was clearly staged, but it was used after the fact to prove that some intimacy existed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Please add a few paragraphs from that article! The story is extremely important.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)And considering them are photos of him in Dealey Plaza days before JFK assassination ,which I think he had foreknowledge of thru the CIA where he was working at the time - and i think we have yet another crooked politician on our hands!