Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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probably thought, or wanted to think, that he was only covering up
politically embarrassing sexual dalliances.
The possibility of murder remains only a possibility, although often raised
by the tabloids, once accepted by Norman Mailer and still insisted upon by
the award-winning journalist Hank Messick (former consultant to the New
York Joint Legislative Committee on Crime). Messick claims that unnamed
informants in the Mafia and the Justice Department both believed that the
mob killed Marilyn to lure Bobby Kennedy into a trap and then blackmail
him. Summers is skeptical of this, and so am I. The mob, as Summers
documents, already had enough on Bobby to blackmail him, because they
had used electronic bugs to acquire several tapes of Marilyn and Bobby
making the-beast-with-two-backs. Since the cover-up obliterated real
evidence, the possibility of murder cannot be ruled out, but the probability is
that only the romantic proclivities of John and Bobby were being
whitewashed. And yet. . .
A few months after Marilyn's death, a woman named Mary Pinchot
Meyer became another of John Kennedy's mistresses. She was also a dear
and good friend of the Harvard LSD researcher, Dr. Timothy Leary, and,
curiously, the wife of Cord Meyer, a top CIA official who was the only man
ever to receive the agency's Distinguished Intelligence Medal three times. In
1964, about one year after the JFK assassination, Mary Pinchot Meyer was
shot to death on a Washington street. Clearly it was statistically somewhat
hazardous to be a mistress of the President of the U.S. in those days.
According to Dr. Leary's autobiography, Flashbacks (Tarcher, Los Angeles,
1983) Mary Pinchot Meyer informed Leary as early as 1962 that the CIA
was engaged in its own LSD research and wanted to stop him and other
scientists from publishing the results of open LSD research. She also told
Leary of a vicious power struggle in Washington between the Kennedy
faction and the old-guard CIA faction. Leary claims there was a cover-up in
the death of Mary Pinchot Meyer and names two Washington sources as
confirming that opinion.
Another of President Kennedy's mistresses, Judith Exner, later came to
the attention of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978
because at the time of her affair with the President she was also the mistress
of Sam Giancana, Chicago Mafia leader, who had once, according to
informants, discussed the desirability of assassinating the President. The
Committee took seriously the possibility that Giancana had put Ms. Exner
in the President's bed in order to blackmail him; the Committee also
examined seriously the possibility that Giancana had gone ahead with his
assassination plot and masterminded the events in Dallas on 22nd
November 1963. In its published report, the Committee concluded only that