Nina Burley
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To have her die 10 days after this report, which people, I think, felt was not fully explanatory of what happened... you know, led them to say, the conspiracy theorists would say that she had to be silenced because she knew something that wasn't in there.
To have her die 10 days after this report, which people, I think, felt was not fully explanatory of what happened... you know, led them to say, the conspiracy theorists would say that she had to be silenced because she knew something that wasn't in there.
Here's Nina. If you Google Mary Meyer right now, and now we're at 2020, you will still come up with entry after entry about various conspiracy theories that people have come up with about what happened to her. And that's the place that she holds in history to this day.
Here's Nina. If you Google Mary Meyer right now, and now we're at 2020, you will still come up with entry after entry about various conspiracy theories that people have come up with about what happened to her. And that's the place that she holds in history to this day.
Here's Nina Burley. She admits for the first time that he took this diary and gave it to James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counterintelligence super spook. And I thought, what is that all about? I'm from the generation that grew up thinking, you know, I was in grade school when Watergate happened, and I revered Ben Bradley, and I thought... He was the father of investigative journalism.
Here's Nina Burley. She admits for the first time that he took this diary and gave it to James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counterintelligence super spook. And I thought, what is that all about? I'm from the generation that grew up thinking, you know, I was in grade school when Watergate happened, and I revered Ben Bradley, and I thought... He was the father of investigative journalism.
And what was he doing secretly giving the diary of a murder victim to the CIA and then not telling anyone while a man was on trial for murder and not revealing it for another three decades?
And what was he doing secretly giving the diary of a murder victim to the CIA and then not telling anyone while a man was on trial for murder and not revealing it for another three decades?
I mean, the main evidence that it had to do with the CIA is the fact that they have Angleton there at night taking her material. And he's a very malign person in the history of the CIA. He was known to go and get documents immediately after people's deaths to make sure that information was not released.
I mean, the main evidence that it had to do with the CIA is the fact that they have Angleton there at night taking her material. And he's a very malign person in the history of the CIA. He was known to go and get documents immediately after people's deaths to make sure that information was not released.
Ann Truitt was living in Japan with her husband, a journalist, and she got wind of Mary's death. And before the day was out, she had phoned up Tony Bradley, Ben Bradley's wife and Mary's sister, and said, you need to go over to that studio and get this diary that she kept because there's a lot in it that we don't want people to know. She wouldn't want people to read it.
Ann Truitt was living in Japan with her husband, a journalist, and she got wind of Mary's death. And before the day was out, she had phoned up Tony Bradley, Ben Bradley's wife and Mary's sister, and said, you need to go over to that studio and get this diary that she kept because there's a lot in it that we don't want people to know. She wouldn't want people to read it.
Lo and behold, who do they see but James Jesus Angleton, godfather to their children, to Mary's children, one of Cord's best friends, and just happens to be counterintelligence chief of the CIA. one of the most paranoid super spooks in American history, jimmying the lock and trying to get in to the studio. And then the story gets a little murky. Does he get in? Do they go in together?
Lo and behold, who do they see but James Jesus Angleton, godfather to their children, to Mary's children, one of Cord's best friends, and just happens to be counterintelligence chief of the CIA. one of the most paranoid super spooks in American history, jimmying the lock and trying to get in to the studio. And then the story gets a little murky. Does he get in? Do they go in together?
Ben has reported in his memoir that he went in found this document, a diary, which he described as having lots of color swatches in it, but also some text in her handwriting, and that from his cursory glance at it, he recognized that it was personal and that it was revealing and that it might be revealing things about Kennedy. And so they gave the diary to Angleton.
Ben has reported in his memoir that he went in found this document, a diary, which he described as having lots of color swatches in it, but also some text in her handwriting, and that from his cursory glance at it, he recognized that it was personal and that it was revealing and that it might be revealing things about Kennedy. And so they gave the diary to Angleton.
I think from the way that the accounts were pieced together, her death was pretty well known by the middle of the afternoon in the top echelons of the national security community because you have accounts of Cord Meyer and Engleton and other people talking about it.
I think from the way that the accounts were pieced together, her death was pretty well known by the middle of the afternoon in the top echelons of the national security community because you have accounts of Cord Meyer and Engleton and other people talking about it.
I don't really think that there is... a lot of plausible evidence that it was a conspiracy, that she was killed by the CIA. In fact, I would have preferred it to be a conspiracy. It's a better book. It's a better, it's a movie.
I don't really think that there is... a lot of plausible evidence that it was a conspiracy, that she was killed by the CIA. In fact, I would have preferred it to be a conspiracy. It's a better book. It's a better, it's a movie.