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62
.   Meyer, “Notes.”

63
.   Ibid.

64
.   Meyer, “Waves of Darkness,” p. 80.

65
.   Miller, “One Man’s Long Journey,” p. 9.

66
.   Victor, Marchetti, interviews by the author, Ashburn, Va., November 18, 2005, and October 4, 2007. See also Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,”
Rolling Stone
, October 20, 1977.

67
.   Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 330.

68
.   Scottie Lanahan, “Are You Playing the Games by the Rules in Washington?,” NEWS to Me …,
Washington Post
, April 2, 1967, p. H2.

69
.   Letter from the office of William Sloane Coffin Jr. at Yale University to the entering class of 1972, August 8, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer, Jr. to Bishop Paul Moore, September 13, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer Jr. to Cyrus R. Vance, September 26, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer Jr. to Dean Acheson, September 26, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Cord Meyer Jr. to William P. Bundy, September 26, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Bishop Paul Moore to Cord Meyer Jr., September 13, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer; Dean Acheson to Cord Meyer Jr., October 1, 1968, box 1, Papers of Cord Meyer.

70
.   Marc D. Charney, “Rev. William Sloane Coffin Dies at 81; Fought for Civil Rights and Against a War,”
New York Times
, April 13, 2006.

71
.   Miller, “One Man’s Long Journey,” p. 53.

Chapter 8.
Personal Evolution

1
.    Gerald Clarke,
Capote: A Biography
(London: Cardinal, 1989), p. 271.

2
.    Gore Vidal,
Palimpsest: A Memoir
(New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 311.

3
.    Peter Evans,
Nemesis
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), pp. 29–33.

4
.    Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
The Kennedys: An American Drama
(New York: Summit, 1984), p. 209. Another source confirmed this account as early as 1978; see Kitty Kelley,
Jackie Oh!
(Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1978), pp. 57–58.

5
.    Edward Klein,
All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy
(New York: Pocket Books, 1996), pp. 220–221.

6
.    In 1931, the state of Nevada reduced the residency requirement for divorces to six weeks using the catch-all grounds of “mental cruelty.” This made Nevada the go-to place for a divorce. Because a woman who wished to avoid the embarrassment of getting a divorce in her hometown could be incognito in sparsely populated Nevada, this choice was popular with many women from prominent families.

7
.    Michael O’Brien,
John F. Kennedy: A Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s, 2005), p. 441.

8
.    Ibid., pp. 441–442.

9
.    Mary P. Meyer v. Cord Meyer, Jr., Case No. 175609, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decree, Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, August 19, 1958.

10
.   Confidential source, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., 1991.

11
.   Robert Schwartz, interview by the author, New York, N.Y., October 16, 2008.

12
.   O’Brien,
John F. Kennedy
, p. 442.

13
.   Kenneth Noland, telephone interview by Nina Burleigh, September 13, 1996.

14
.   Schwartz interview.

15
.   James McConnell Truitt letter to Deborah Davis, May 11, 1979.

16
.   Deborah Davis, interview by Leo Damore, February 23, 1991; Deborah Davis, interview by the author, March 17, 2009. During Deborah Davis’s research for her book
Katharine the Great
in 1976, she traveled to Mexico and interviewed Jim Truitt for more than ten hours over a three-day period. The two then corresponded further by mail. Nina Burleigh also references the likelihood of Jim Truitt’s influence on “Mary’s initiation into drug experimentation.” See Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unresolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), pp. 171–172.

17
.   Laura Bergquist, “The Curious Story Behind the New Cary Grant,”
Look
, September 1, 1959.

18
.   Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain,
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion
(New York: Grove, 1985), p. 93.

19
.   Ibid., p. 51.

20
.   Ibid.

21
.   Alfred Hubbard, interview by Dr. Oscar Janiger, October 13, 1978. A number of sources have referenced this interview, including the best history of the entire era ever written: Lee and Shlain’s
Acid Dreams
, cited in note 18 above.

22
.   H. P. Albarelli Jr.,
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments
(Walterville, Ore.: Trine Day, 2009). pp. 350-352. See also: H. P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye, “Cries From the Past:
Torture’s Ugly Echoes,”
Truthout
, Sunday, May 23, 2010.
www.truthout.org
.

23
.   Albarelli,
A Terrible Mistake.
This is, by far, the most thorough account of Frank Olson’s death and the history of the CIA’s MKULTRA program.

24
.   Ibid.

25
.   Lee and Shlain,
Acid Dreams
, pp. 52–53.

26
.   Robert Budd, interview by the author, January 21, 2004.

27
.   Morton Herskowitz, D.O., interview by the author, May 17, 2004.

28
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 165.

29
.   Budd, interview.

30
.   Noland, interview, September 13, 1996; Kenneth Noland, interview by Nina Burleigh, Carlyle Hotel, New York, N.Y., December 1996. In a follow-up email to me on July 6, 2005, author Burleigh shared the fact that Ken Noland and Mary frequented jazz clubs in Washington, D.C., and that Noland had talked with Burleigh “abt [
sic
] their LSD use.” Despite my own association with Kenneth Noland when he and Mary Meyer taught art at Georgetown Day School in the 1950s, he declined to speak with me. I am indebted to Nina Burleigh, who graciously shared a copy of her notes taken during these interviews.

31
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 175.

32
.   Confidential source, interview.

33
.   Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 235.

34
.   Ben Bradlee, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007.

35
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 180.

36
.   Confidential source, interview.

37
.   Ibid.

38
.   Lee and Shlain,
Acid Dreams
, p. 192.

39
.   Ibid., p. 133.

40
.   Ibid., p. 189.

41
.   Collier and Horowitz,
Kennedys
, p. 176.

42
.   Robert Dallek,
An Unfinished Life
:
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
(Boston: Little, Brown, 2003), p. 152. See also Collier and Horowitz,
Kennedys
, p. 176; Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1987), p. 838; Ralph G. Martin,
A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Macmillan, 1983), p. 240. During an interview with this author in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 8, 2009, Priscilla J. McMillan claimed to have no recollection of making the quoted statements, or of the interviews she had given to David Horowitz and Robert Dallek. Both authors, however, confirmed with me that they had, in fact, interviewed Priscilla J. McMillan, and that she gave the statements as quoted in their respective books. David Horowitz confirmed this with me by telephone on July 13, 2009, and Robert Dallek confirmed it via email on July 14, 2009.

43
.   Martin,
Hero for Our Time
, p. 240.

44
.   Goodwin,
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
, pp. 837–838.

45
.   Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 152.

46
.   Collier and Horowitz,
Kennedys
, p. 194.

47
.   Nigel Hamilton,
JFK: Reckless Youth
(New York: Random House, 1992), pp. 690–691.

48
.   Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 84.

49
.   Ibid., p. 85.

50
.   Goodwin.,
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
, p. 848.

51
.   Ibid., p. 858.

52
.   Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 154.

53
.   Seymour M. Hersh,
The Dark Side of Camelot
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1997), pp. 234–236.

54
.   Anonymous source, interview by the author, November 14, 2009.

55
.   Hersh,
Dark Side of Camelot
, p. 237.

Chapter 9.
Mary’s Mission

1
.    Timothy Leary,
Flashbacks: An Autobiography
(Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1983), p. 128.

2
.    Ibid.

3
.    Ibid., p. 129.

4
.    Timothy Leary, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1990.

5
.    Leary,
Flashbacks
, p. 129.

6
.    Ibid., pp. 128–130.

7
.    Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 194. Burleigh’s interview with White House counsel Myer Feldman provides the most specific, thorough documentation of how closely President Kennedy relied on the counsel of Mary Meyer.

8
.    Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 255.

9
.    Leo Damore, interview by the author, Centerbrook, Conn., February 1992.

10
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 254.

11
.   Leary,
Flashbacks
, pp. 227–231.

12
.   Leary, interview.

13
.   Robert Greenfield,
Timothy Leary: A Biography
(New York: Harcourt, 2006), p. 245.