Mary's Mosaic (77 page)

20
.   Testimony of Ben Bradlee, trial transcript, p. 43.

21
.   Bradlee,
Good Life
, pp. 266–267.

22
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 33.

23
.   Ibid., p. 32.

24
.   Ibid., p. 29.

25
.   Ibid.

26
.   James DiEugenio, “The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” in
The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X
, ed. James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003), pp. 339–345.

27
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 29.

28
.   Ward and Toogood, “White House Romance,” p. 4.

29
.   Bradlee,
Good Life
, p. 267.

30
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 32.

31
.   Trial transcript, pp. 46–47.

32
.   Cicely D’Autremont Angleton and Anne Truitt, “In Angleton’s Custody,” letter to the editor,
New York Times Book Review
, November 5, 1995.

33
.   Ibid. This was further confirmed by the account that Tony Bradlee gave to author Sally Bedell Smith. See: Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 286.

34
.   William Safire, “Editor’s Notes,”
New York Times
, October 1, 1995.

35
.   Tom Mangold,
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton; The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 327–330; Trento,
Secret History
, pp. 410–411; Newton “Scotty” Miler, interview by the author, February 15, 2005. All three of these sources attest to the fact that Angleton kept a voluminous set of files in a number of different safes at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Scotty Miler became Angleton’s chief of operations and was part of Angleton’s elite unit known as the Special Investigations Group (CI/SIG). He mentioned several times that Angleton never destroyed any file or document. “He kept everything,” said Miler.

36
.   Adam Bernstein, “Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, Former Wife of Prominent Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, Dies at 87,”
Washington Post
, November 14, 2011.

37
.   Letter to the editor, “The Angleton Children Tell Their Side,”
Washington Post
, December 2, 2011.

38
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 33.

39
.   Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 286. Also, in an email to this author on July 27, 2010, author Sally Bedell Smith said she had conducted an extensive interview with Tony Bradlee in January 2001 and a follow-up in September 2001.

40
.   Ibid. According to author Sally Bedell Smith, “After James Truitt’s interviews with the
National Enquirer
, Tony decided to destroy the diary. She called Anne Truitt (by then divorced from James), who lived across the street in Washington, and they watched the notebook burn in Tony’s fireplace.” p. 286.

41
.   Bradlee, interview.

42
.   Bradlee,
Good Life
, pp. 269-270.

43
.   Ibid., p. 268.

44
.   Bradlee, interview.

45
.   Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 286.

46
.   Ibid.

47
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 33.

48
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 286.

49
.   Timothy Leary,
Flashbacks: An Autobiography
(Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1983), p. 194.

50
.   Nancy Pittman Pinchot, interview by the author, November 18, 2009. According to Ms. Pinchot, a niece of Mary Meyer’s, this diary still exists somewhere in Milford, Pennsylvania. It contained an account of Mary’s struggle with her father Amos’s deteriorating mental condition, subsequent to his daughter Rosamund’s suicide, as well as at least one other relationship with a man Mary Meyer was involved with at the time, in addition to William Attwood. This particular diary was also read and referenced by Bibi Gaston in
The Loveliest Woman in America
(New York: William Morrow, 2008). Because of the nature of my book, the Meyer-Pinchot family denied me access to this earlier diary of Mary Meyer’s.

51
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 29.

52
.   Evelyn Patterson Truitt, letter to Anthony Summers, March 10, 1983. The letter was shared with this author by Anthony Summers.

53
.   Jefferson Morley,
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008). pp. 277-283. In addition, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Thomas Mann told author Dick Russell that he “always suspected that he [Win Scott] might have been murdered … When you get involved in that sort of thing [the CIA and the world of intelligence], one is not surprised, if you know that world, when people drop dead real quick.” Russell also interviewed Winston Scott’s son, Michael, who told Russell that an ex-CIA colleague of his father’s had confided that “certain people” had come by to see Win when he was bedridden after his backyard fall, which everyone believed had precipitated his death. This CIA source, according to Michael Scott, “had expressed strong doubt that his [Win Scott’s] death was an accident.” Michael Scott then added, “I was told that James Angleton was on a plane to Mexico within an hour of my dad’s death, so quickly that he carried no visa or passport and was held for a while at customs. He finally arrived pretending to be there for my father’s funeral. But he had really come to get his files.” (Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. pp. 295-297).

54
.   Leary,
Flashbacks
, p. 194.

55
.   Rosenbaum and Nobile, “Curious Aftermath,” p. 22.

56
.   Ibid. p. 29.

57
.   Alexandra Truitt, interview by the author, October 11, 2005.

58
.   Timothy Leary, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1990.

59
.   Carol Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 1993), p. 198n.

60
.   Cord Meyer Jr.,
Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 143.

Chapter 4.
Deus Ex Machina

1
.    “History, Hume, and the Press,” Letter to John Norvell Washington, dated June 14, 1807,
The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743–1826
. (Located at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center). See the following:
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng//files/03/65/45/f036545/public/JefLett.html

2
.    George Peter Lamb, interview by Leo Damore, May 23, 1991.

3
.    Katie McCabe, “She Had a Dream,”
Washingtonian
, March 2002, pp. 52–60, pp. 124–130.

4
.    Ibid., p. 55.

5
.    Ibid., p. 56.

6
.    Ibid., p. 55.

7
.    Ibid., p. 56.

8
.    Ibid., p. 60.

9
.    Ibid., pp. 57–58.

10
.   Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009), p. 90.

11
.   McCabe, “She Had a Dream.” p. 60.

12
.   Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1990.

13
.   Ibid.

14
.   The fact that Ray Crump had been with a girlfriend named Vivian on the towpath at the time of Mary Meyer’s murder was revealed to attorney Dovey Roundtree by both Ray Crump himself and by his mother,
Martha Crump. Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1992. See also McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
, pp. 195.

15
.   Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1992.

16
.   Ibid.

17
.   Ibid.

18
.   Ibid.

19
.   Ibid.; Dovey Roundtree, interviews by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1991, and April 4, 1992. Roundtree’s conversations with the woman named Vivian are also covered in some detail in
Justice Older Than the Law
, pp. 195–196.

20
.   Roundtree, interview, February 23, 1991.

21
.   Roundtree, interview, November 4, 1990.

22
.   Ibid.

23
.   The distances mentioned were taken from the trial transcript, United States of America v. Ray Crump, Jr., Defendant, Criminal Case No. 930-64, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., July 20, 1965, p. 119, pp. 710–711. The distances were measured again by the author on February 6, 2008, using GPS portable technology and found to be accurate within ten feet.

24
.   U.S. Park Police officer Ray Pollan, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1990.

25
.   Lamb, interview, May 23, 1991.

26
.   Ibid.

27
.   Crump v. Anderson, June 15, 1965, 122 U.S. App. D.C., 352 F.2d 649 (D.C. Cir. 1965). Circuit Judge George Thomas Washington pointed this out in his dissent during Crump’s appeal for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied.

28
.   Trial transcript., p. 710.

29
.   Blue v. United States of America, 342 F.2d 894 (D.C. Cir. 1964), p. 900. The case was argued on May 18, 1964, and decided on October 29, 1964.

30
.   Lamb, interview, May 23, 1991.

31
.   George Peter Lamb, interview by the author, May 12, 2010.

32
.   U.S. v. Ray Crump, Jr., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Criminal No. 930-64. CJ# 1317-64. “The Clerk of said Court will please enter the appearance of Dovey J. Roundtree and George F. Knox, Sr. as attorneys for defendant in the above entitled cause.” George Peter Lamb and the Legal Aid Association withdrew from the Crump case on November 3, 1964.

33
.   Lamb, interview, May 23, 1991.

34
.   Roundtree, interview, November 4, 1990.

35
.   Ibid.; Dovey Roundtree, interviews by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1990, May 25, 1991, and April 4, 1992. In each of the interviews, Roundtree made it clear that her client, Ray Crump, was deteriorating mentally soon after entering his plea. She continued to believe that he was being abused by prison guards, in spite of daily visits from her and his family.