Mary's Mosaic (81 page)

14
.   Ibid., pp. 423–427.

15
.   Carolyn Pfeiffer Bradshaw, interview by the author, March 20, 2009. Ms. Bradshaw confirmed that she and her late husband, Jon, were very close friends of Timothy and Barbara Leary and that they spent a great deal of time together.

16
.   Leary, interview. See also Timothy Leary, “The Murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer,” premier issue,
Rebel: A Newsweekly with A Cause
, no. 1 (January 1984): pp. 44–49. In addition, author Carol Felsenthal covers this topic thoroughly in her book
Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 1993.)

17
.   In Leo Damore’s possession were two letters/reports from investigator William Triplett. The first was dated “14 December 1983” and was eight single-spaced typewritten pages in length. It was addressed to “Timothy Leary P.O. Box 69886, Los Angeles, CA. 90069.” The second letter/report was dated “5 January 1984” and was six pages in length. Sometime in early
1991, Damore communicated with Triplett, who responded to Damore in a letter dated March 7, 1991, in which he verified his previous work with Timothy Leary. Copies of all three letters are currently in my possession.

18
.   Robert Greenfield, interview by the author, January 23, 2009.

19
.   Ibid.

20
.   Leary, interview. Damore followed up with Leary in several telephone calls over the next two-plus years into March 1993, as his notes indicate, with regard to specific questions that arose from the initial interview in 1990.

21
.   Timothy Leary’s relationship with Cord Meyer was also documented by Leary biographer Robert Greenfield, who told me that Leary’s secretary in Berkeley verified this when he interviewed her. Greenfield, interview.

22
.   Peggy Mellon Hitchcock, interview by the author, March 16, 2009.

23
.   Leary, interview.

24
.   Ibid.

25
.   Peter Janney letter to Anne Chamberlin, January 27, 2009.

26
.   Anne Chamberlin letter to Peter Janney, February 5, 2009.

27
.   C. David Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
(New York: Carol Communications, 1989), p. 375. In a letter to Leo Damore dated July 3, 1990, Heymann wrote, “I also interviewed people like Mary’s sister, Tim Leary and others who knew her [Mary Meyer].”

28
.   I could locate no interview with Timothy Leary, Tony Bradlee, or James Angleton in any of the material that C. David Heymann had provided to the Special Collections and University Archives at SUNY–Stony Brook’s Memorial Library.

29
.   Heymann,
Woman Named Jackie
, p. 651. In his notes for Chapter 22, Heymann stated that he had interviewed “James Angleton,” but provided no citation as to the date or location of such interview. Recently, much of Heymann’s so-called research has met with increasing criticism, questioning its veracity. See, for instance, Lisa Pease’s review of Heymann’s book
Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story
(2009) at Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination,
www.ctka.net/reviews/heymann.html
.

30
.   Leary, interview.

31
.   Ibid.

32
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 341–38.

33
.   In a letter dated March 10, 1983, Jim Truitt’s second wife, Evelyn Patterson Truitt, told author Anthony Summers the following: “My husband’s files [James McConnell Truitt] were all stolen by an ex-CIA agent, Herbert Barrows. I called the F.B.I. but don’t know what happened to his 30 years of carefully kept records.”

34
.   Deborah Davis, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2009. I also had a number of subsequent phone conversations with Ms. Davis about Timothy Leary, whom she came to know well, in addition to Jim Truitt.

35
.   Bernie Ward and Granville Toogood, “Former Vice President of Washington Post Reveals JFK 2-Year White House Romance,”
National Enquirer
, March 2, 1976, p. 4.

36
.   Ibid.

37
.   January 1962 was the date first disclosed by James Truitt in the March 1976 issue of the
National Enquirer
. Ibid.

38
.   White House Secret Service logs at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Mass. This date was also substantiated by Sally Bedell Smith and Nina Burleigh in their respective books,
Grace and Power
and
A Very Private Woman
, pp. 329-330.

39
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, pp. 233–234. This is the latest and most thoroughly researched book documenting these facts.

40
.   Herbert S. Parmet,
JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Dial, 1983), pp. 306–307.

41
.   Dino Brugioni, interview by the author, January 30, 2009. During the Kennedy presidency, Brugioni was the top deputy for Arthur C. Lundahl, director of the CIA’s most secretive facility: the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). Brugioni knew personally some of the agents in Kennedy’s Secret Service detail; they told him that they took the president on a number of occasions to Mary Meyer’s house in Georgetown. Brugioni is also the author of the best-selling book
Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis
(New York: Random House, 1990).

42
.   Benjamin C. Bradlee,
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 268.

43
.   Benjamin C. Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), p. 54.

44
.   Ralph G. Martin,
Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995), p. 371.

45
.   Damore, interview. Damore mentioned this incident the very first time we met in February 1992 and repeated it several times subsequent to that.

46
.   Ben Bradlee, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007.

47
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 43.

48
.   Bradlee,
A Good Life
, p. 232.

49
.   Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
, p. 187. Bradlee said the remark was made on April 29, 1963.

50
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 364.

51
.   Ibid., p. 365.

52
.   Ibid.

53
.   Ibid., pp. 144–145.

54
.   Bradlee, interview.

55
.   Charles Bartlett, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2008.

56
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 298.

57
.   Bartlett, interview.

58
.   Damore, interview. Damore also shared O’Donnell’s comments with his close friend and attorney Jimmy Smith, as well as with Timothy Leary during their interview in November 1990.

59
.   Ibid.

60
.   Donald H. Wolfe,
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
. (New York: William Morrow, 1998), pp. 461–462; Donald H. Wolfe, interview by the author, June 2, 2005. Wolfe’s account was meticulously researched and substantiated by several different sources.

61
.   Wolfe,
Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 462.

62
.   Bryan Bender, “A Dark Corner of Camelot,”
Boston Globe
, January 23, 2011.

63
.   Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 194.

64
.   Ibid.

65
.   Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Memorandum for the President, December 29, 1962, JFKPOF-065-019, Papers of John F. Kennedy, Presidential Papers, President’s Office Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Mass. See also Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman
, p. 194.

66
.   Tim Weiner,
Legacy of Ashes
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 167. See also Tim Weiner, “The True and Shocking History of the CIA,” July 30, 2007, RINF News,
www.rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/the-true-and-shocking-history-of-the-cia/876/
.

67
.   John Lukacs,
George Kennan: A Study of Character
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2007), p. 98.

68
.   Peter Grose,
Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), p. 293.

69
.   The most recent and thorough account is Stephen Kinzer’s
All the Shah’s Men
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

70
.   John Foster Dulles and the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell had been the legal counsel for the United Fruit Company for decades. John Foster and Allen Dulles were both major shareholders in the company, with Allen serving as a member of United Fruit’s board of trustees. See Stephen Kinzer,
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
(New York: Times Books, 2006), pp. 129–130; Walter La Feber,
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), pp. 120–121.

71
.   Donald E. Deneselya, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., April 10, 2007.

72
.   L. Fletcher Prouty,
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
(New York: Citadel, 1996), p. 155.

73
.   Joan Mellen,
A Farewell to Justice
(Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005), p.162. Author Mellen’s exact reference for this quote was as follows: “Forty years later, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy adviser, would remark quietly to Jim Garrison’s old classmate Wilmer Thomas that they had been at war with ‘the national security people.’”

74
.   Richard Reeves,
President Kennedy: Profiles of Power
(New York: Touchstone, 1993), p. 103.

75
.   David C. Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
(Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 1980), p. 118.

76
.   Daniel Schorr, commentary on Noah Adams’s NPR program
All Things Considered
, March 26, 2001.

77
.   John M. Newman,
JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power
(New York: Warner, 1992), pp. 98–99.

78
.   Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 428.

79
.   Willie Morris,
New York Days
(Boston: Little Brown, 1993), p. 36.

80
.   According to James Srodes in his book
Allen Dulles: Master of Spies
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1999), p. 547, Dulles did not learn that he would be fired from the CIA until the last week of August 1961. President Kennedy then announced on September 27 that John A. McCone would replace him.

81
.   James Bamford,
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
(New York: Random House, 2002), p. 82.