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, apparently in a mugging, 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. Bradlee went to the house. Door was locked. He had key. Inside was James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counterintelligence.
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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. Angleton told Ben & Toni Bradlee that he didn't find the diary. No diary has ever been found. Mary Meyer was known to keep a diary.
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10. The interesting thing about James Jesus Angleton is that he had been paying attention to Oswald since 1959, when Oswald defected to USSR
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11. Seven days before Kennedy died, Angleton's staff received word that Oswald was in Dallas:https://www.thedailybeast.com/cia-spyhunters-knew-lee-harvey-oswald-was-in-dallas-days-before-jfks-assassination …
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12. The great
@jeffersonmorley tracked Angleton's interest in Oswald in his book The Ghost & here:https://www.thedailybeast.com/cia-spyhunters-knew-lee-harvey-oswald-was-in-dallas-days-before-jfks-assassination …Show this thread -
13. Angleton made a systematic effort to obfuscate or destroy evidence of CIA knowledge of Oswald pre-assassination.
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14. What's the best case scenario here? Angelton was following Oswald, embarrassed he didn't stop assassination & wanted to cover up.
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15. Okay, here's the kicker: among the documents NOT released today, transcript of testimony from J.J. Angelton:https://twitter.com/jeffersonmorley/status/923731474905518080 …
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16. I imagine Angleton's testimony to the Church Commission went a lot like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk …
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17. Correction to #9: fate of Mary Meyer's diary uncertain. There are conflicting stories of possession & destruction
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