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CRS MAIN FILE COPY JUL 23 1975 P. 33 THE NEW YORK TIMES. Hunt Sons Charge C.I.A. Used Agents To Embezzle Funds DALLAS, July 22 (UPI)—Two sons of H. L. Hunt, the late billionaire, contending they were discriminated against because of their conservative views, charged today that the Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated the family oil empire and used secret agents to help embezzle more than $50-million from them. The brothers, Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt, filed new Federal charges that they had tried to cover up a family wiretapping scheme were a further result of an attempt by the C.I.A. to discredit the Hunt oil empire. They said they held the C.I.A. responsible for earlier Federal charges that they had spied on others in their refusal to allow the C.I.A. to use their overseas Hunt Oil Company offices for espionage and that the Federal charges against them were a "smokescreen." A massive embezzlement scheme involving losses of over $50-million from the Hunt Oil Company was uncovered, the brothers said in a news release. An investigation disclosed that some Hunt employees had worked in the scheme, some involved Government C.I.A. heads. A spokesman at Washington headquarters of the C.I.A. said, "It appears much too complicated; more than the C.I.A.'s legal people would like to become involved with." A Federal grand jury yesterday charged the Hunt brothers, Percy Foreman of Houston, a criminal lawyer, three attorneys and a retired Texas industrialist with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to thwart the wiretap investigation.