1. There's an amazing story about Ben Bradlee that might be more important than Watergate. (thanks to @mschmitt9 for reminding me of it)
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2. Ben Bradlee's sister-in-law was Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was married to CIA bigwig Cord Meyer. She was also JFK's mistress.
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3. Mary Pinchot Meyer was killed on October 12, 1964, slightly less than a year after Kennedy's assassination.
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4. When he heard his sister-in-law was killed, Ben Bradlee went to her Georgetown house to find her diary, suspecting it was explosive.
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5. Before Bradlee was able to get ahold of the diary, CIA counter-intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton already picked it up.
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6. Bradlee's own account: "We didn't start looking until the next morning, when Toni and I walked around the corner a few blocks..."
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7. "...to Mary's house. It was locked, as we had expected, but when we got inside, we found James Angleton..."
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8. "...and to our complete surprise he told us he, too, was looking for Mary's diary."
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9. Slight correction: James Jesus Angleton was looking for Meyer's diary. We don't know that he found it.
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10. Everything in these tweets (with the correction in #9 kept in mind) is true. What do we make of it?
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11. If you want to know more about M.P. Meyer, read this by @RonRosenbaum1 http://books.google.ca/books?id=kZ5_vCvzPRQC&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=%22new+York+Times+Book+Review%22+%22mary+Meyer%22&source=bl&ots=DmInh5x8B8&sig=y3aT0vtXY309mH-X2NHMv516EWo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7BNHVM-rII6NsQT4xoL4DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22new%20York%20Times%20Book%20Review%22%20%22mary%20Meyer%22&f=false … & Nina Burleigh's A Very Private Woman
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