Gerald Bellett

Gerald Bellett is a reporter with the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia. Since 1974, he has written about John Meier and his monumental struggle with the White House, the CIA and the Howard Hughes organization. The story took him across North America from the deserts of Nevada, where he found the hidden gold mines of Howard Hughes, to the dangerous streets of Harlem in search of a CIA agent on the run. Bellett exposed the CIA’s infiltration of the Hughes organization and the agency’s use of Howard Hughes to supply its favored politicians with campaign contributions. He has won a number of awards including a National Newspaper Award for being part of the Sun’s reporting team that wrote a series concerning a notorious serial killer. He was born in Liverpool, England, and has lived in Canada since 1966. He now resides near Vancouver.