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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 39
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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From his corporate law work at Sullivan & Cromwell, the
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pre-eminent foreign policy law firm in America, Dulles was
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close to [Washington] Post company attorney Frederick S.
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Beeb(sp?) at Kravith, Swayne & Moore(sp?), another foreign
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policy firm. A quiet, thoughtful man, Beeb had been
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recruited out of Yale 1938 by Kravith senior partner
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Roswell Kilpatrick(sp?), later the Assistant Secretary of
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Defense under Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. At
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Kravith, Beeb had been assigned to handle estate planning
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and other legal affairs for the Meyer family
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(That's the family from which Katherine Graham came, by the way.)
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and eventually became their chief corporate as well as
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personal counsel, representing their interests in every
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significant transaction over three decades, including the
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legally complex, monopolistic acquisition of the
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Times-Herald in '54. The merger was critical for Katherine
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[Graham's] family, confirming their power and influence in
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Washington and making the paper financially "safe enough
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for her son Donny."
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It was also critical to Hayes, Phil Graham, Beeb, Wisner,
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and Dulles -- men who had a political interest in her
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family's newspaper -- because the Times-Herald maintained a
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bank of dossiers routinely made available to the FBI, the
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CIA's rival in domestic Cold War intelligence. When Col.
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McCormick decided to sell his nearly bankrupt Washington
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newspaper, he asked Eugene Meyer the price of $8.5 million
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for it, about three times its worth. John Hayes went to
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Chicago in March of 1954 to make the initial payment in
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cash. The merger drove up the value of the Post's stock
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and made the executives richer. It also increased the
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CIA's access to information, news sources, and co-operative
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newsmen, to the benefit of [Operation] Mockingbird, which
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Frank Wisner had been expanding throughout the Cold War.
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So, reviewing that section very briefly, not only in its
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acquisition of radio station WTOP, but also the McCormick
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newspaper the Washington Times-Herald, basically the CIA was
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intimately involved in assisting the [Washington] Post and
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thereby, obviously, also assisting itself, in cementing its
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relationship with one of this country's major papers.
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Now the next element of the Washington Post/CIA association we're
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going to be looking at concerns Washington Post editor Ben
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Bradlee, his brother-in-law (a man named Cord Meyer, a CIA
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counter-intelligence official operating under James Jesus
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Angleton), and also, a fellow named Richard Ober.
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Now Richard Ober is a close friend and old buddy of Ben Bradlee.
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Richard Ober also went to work for CIA. And Richard Ober was to
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become "Deep Throat" himself. We're gonna talk about that in a
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minute. The point is, here, Cord Meyer is another CIA
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counter-intelligence official. He is the brother-in-law of Ben
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Bradlee.
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In 1956, Ben and Toni Bradlee are part of a community of
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Americans who have remained in Paris after having been
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trained in intelligence during the war or in propaganda at
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the Economic Cooperation Administration. Many have now
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addressed themselves to fighting Communism, a less visible
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but more insidious enemy than Nazi-ism had been. Some of
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them, like Bradlee, are journalists who write from the Cold
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War point of view. Some are intelligence operatives who
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travel between Washington and Paris, London and Rome. In
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Washington, at Phillip Graham's salon, they plan and
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philosophize. In foreign cities, they do the work of
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keeping European Communism in check.
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Bradlee's childhood friend, Richard Helms, is part of this
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group. He has written portions of the National Security
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Act of 1947, a set of laws creating a Central Intelligence
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Agency and the National Security Agency, the latter to
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support the CIA with research into codes and electronic
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communications. Helms is the Agency's chief expert on
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espionage. His agents penetrate the government of the
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Soviet Union and leftist political parties throughout
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Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. Angleton and Ober
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are counter-intelligence and run agents from Washington to
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Paris who do exactly the opposite: they prevent spies from
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penetrating American embassies, the State Department, the
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CIA itself.
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Head of the third activity, covert operations, is Phil
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Graham's compatriot, Frank Wisner, the father of
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[Operation] Mockingbird, whose principal operative is a man
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named Cord Meyer, Jr. Meyer was a literature and philosophy
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major at Yale, and is consequently well-liked by Angleton
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who, when at Yale, thought of himself as a poet and edited
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a literary magazine. Meyer is married to Toni Bradlee's
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sister, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the woman who later became
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[John F.] Kennedy's lover and was murdered in 1964.
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Among the fascinating and glamourous Americans of Paris,
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London and Rome, the Meyers are more fascinating and
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glamourous than the rest. Mary was the most brilliant and
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beautiful girl in her class at Vassar and is now a painter
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beginning to be critically recognized. Cord is an
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attractive and articulate figure whose evolution as an
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anti-Communist has given him a unique understanding of
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Communist trends in European trade union and Third World
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liberation movements. Because of this specialized
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knowledge, he is, as few men are, considered within the
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Agency to be indispensable.
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The point is here that, not only was Ben Bradlee, the editor of
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the Washington Post, himself trained in intelligence, very close
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not only to Richard Helms (who was CIA Director at the time of
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Watergate), but also to Cord Meyer, his brother-in-law, a key CIA
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counter-intelligence official, and also [to] a man named Richard
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Ober. We're gonna talk about Richard Ober a little later.
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But again, the point here is that the Washington Post is really
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(like many other newspapers in this country) inextricable from
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the U.S. intelligence establishment. And that very relationship
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was indispensable in helping the Washington Post to grow as an
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institution.
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Now although Phillip Graham was one of the people who helped set
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up the working relationship between the [Washington] Post (and
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other news media) with the CIA, he eventually, for a reason or
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reasons unknown, began to disintegrate mentally. One of the
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interesting "symptoms" (if one could call it that) of his mental
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disintegration is that he became very vocal and critical about
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the CIA relationship with the news media. (Which, of course, he
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had helped to set up in the first place.)
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Again, reading from *Katherine the Great*, of Phillip Graham,
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[Debra Davis] writes,
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He had begun to talk, after his second breakdown, about the
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CIA's manipulation of journalists. He said it disturbed
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him. He said it to the CIA. His enchantment with
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journalism, it seemed, was fading. "Newspapers are the
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rough drafts of history," he now thought. "Media politics
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do not become history until the moral judgements are in."
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As he became more desperate, unable to control the forces
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that controlled him (one of the manic-depressive's greatest
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fears), he turned against the newsmen and politicians whose
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code was mutual trust and, strangely, silence.
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So it's worth noting here that, upon the eve of his death, which
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in turn was a few months before President Kennedy was to be
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killed (and obviously, the whole thing was very much in the
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workings at that time. People can check our archive tapes for
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that. [415-346-1840]). But it's interesting that Phillip Graham
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had become disenchanted, and vocally so, about the very
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relationship between CIA and the media that he had helped to set
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up in the first place.
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Now eventually, as a result of this mental disintegration,
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Phillip Graham was interred in a very well-known mental
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institution called "Chestnut Lodge." Many people have suggested
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that Chestnut Lodge is one of the many CIA mind-control
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institutions or ones that have been affiliated with it. I can't
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document that. It's something I've heard said. But it is
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interesting in light of the longstanding and successful effort of
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the CIA to not only use mind-control techniques -- hypnosis,
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psycho-surgery, and psycho-pharmacology -- to get people to
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commit assassinations, but then to commit suicide themselves
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later, thereby sealing their lips.
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[...to be continued...]
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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