LSD, JFK, CIA?

[Paul Mackin]

Oh yeah, Mary Pinchot had been the wife of Cord Meyer of CIA
renoun  and then had an affair with Leary and perhaps was
married to him for a while. Leary was suspected probably not
very seriously of being a CIA agent because of the Pinchot
connection. Meyer by the way was Ben Bradlee's brother in
law. Bradlee was Washington Post editor and famous for
Pentagon Papers publication and directing  the Watergate
investigative reporting. In a related angle the CIA
contemplated slipping Castro LSD while he was making one of
his speeched but dropped idea because of uncertainty over
individual reactions to the drug. Kennedy had no doubt had
an affair with Mary Meyer. He did with everyone else.

                P.



Paul Mackin wrote:

> I just thought of an obvious connection between JFK and
> LSD. Mary Pinchot a friend of JFK and his wife was shot
> and killed on the C&P towpath. Pichot had been connected
> with Leary in a way  I don't precisely remember.  Should
> look it up. It may be in the Hollander essay. Feeling
> conspiratorial this morning.
>
>                                                 P.
> Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>>
>> > By the way, who the hell first put JFK on the subject
>> > line of this thread?  We
>> > haven't discussed anything regarding JFK directly, have
>> > we?  It's all so
>> > disconcerting!
>>
>> Thought it was you adding to Wood Jim on who was doing
>> what with LSD in the early 60s inluding the CIA.  The
>> inclusion of the JFK initials made it sound like  a
>> takeoff on or echo of on the Charles Hollander essay.
>> All in all it was quite an appropriate thread title for
>> Doug and my discusion which had actually started under
>> another heading.
>>
>>                 P.
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