Reply #3: Ben Bradlee, Mary Pinchot, Cord Meyer, James Angleton

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I've run into Bradlee's name in some very strange contexts. I don't know the meaning of all of this, but here is what I've found:

Ben Bradlee's wife, Tony Pinchot, was the sister of Mary Pinchot, who was married to Cord Meyer. Cord Meyer (no relation to Eugene Meyer) was an anti-communist activist of the late 1940's who joined the CIA in 1950. (Meyer was acquainted with Timothy Leary, which has given rise to suspicions that Leary may have been a CIA agent as well.) The Pinchot sisters were also long-time friends of the wife of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton.

Cord Meyer and Mary Pinchot were divorced around 1960. She then had an affair with John Kennedy, and they may have used LSD together.

Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot mysteriously in 1964, and the case has never been solved. Angleton became guardian of her children and apparently gained possession of a diary in which she had described the affair with Kennedy. (According to one account, Ben Bradlee and his wife said they had seen Angleton trying to break into her house to steal the diary.)


My only reaction to all of this is :wtf:
(That plus -- makes you wonder what was really going on in the Watergate investigation, doesn't it?)