QKENCHANT


QKENCHANT was a Central Intelligence Agency project used to provide security approvals on non-Agency personnel and facilities.

The project

In a memorandum to Assassination Records Review Board, dated 18 September 1998, Central Intelligence Agency states the following:
In a memorandum for "JFK Declassification Project of CIA, dated 27 February 1998, the sender entity states:

E. Howard Hunt

Intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt was associated with QKENCHANT. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers"—a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks".