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Who Murdered Phillip Graham and Why?

Logical answer. CIA. CIA, with Big George in charge of the hit, was about to murder JFK, and Big George and the communi$t$ feared Phillip Graham would expose them.

If you are like me the first question is who in the heck is Phillip Graham? I love conspiracies and have been writing about them for a while. The following read is so wild I even have difficulty accepting it. Things look very bad. The CIA completely controls our media. How in the Hell can good people defeat these guys?The Democratic Underground kicked me out and Daily Kos has not even acknowledged that I filled out a form to post there. Then again it is obvious why Newspapers, the CIA really, wants us to post. So they can spy on us and build their files on us. When your CIA and FBI file is as big as mine, you stop worrying and just enjoy life. As discouraging as is all this mess, I can't help but believe there is a very, very smart God out there. What are the chances I would have met Bob Graham had not a very smart God arranged it. It does look as if we are dead. The communi$t$ have won. But just maybe not. If God knows the importance of me meeting Bob Graham and arranged it and all the hundreds of other important contacts in my life, maybe, just maybe, He is smart enough to make things turn out that the good guys' defeat the bad guys. I love research. This writing is too long as it stands and I can't really explain it. These postings and references mean something to me and maybe they will be meaningful to a few readers. I do believe the CIA or some evil does have mind control. Its actually mind suggestion and one must be really on one's toes to realize the bad guys are making bad mind suggestions and watch out for them and not take the bait. What do the bad guys fear? The majority of the people. The idea much less than one percent of the world's population can have it all is ridiculous. That's what they want. The ultimate of conceit. Reminds me of comrade Big George and a joke. A flea floating down the Mississippi on a twig with a hard on yelling "Open the draw bridge." I am reading the book, J. Edgar Hoover by Curt Gentry and the book exposes the FBI as dirt gathers on every member of Congress and people in the news to control them for the promotion of communi$m. This has got to stop. When Cheney or Little George tell us if the people do not go along with bombing Iran we are going to be hit with another 911, why is the threat a paper tiger? Neocons did not get away with the first 911, and the people will realize the Neocons are behind any subsequent ones as well. Members of Congress must keep their Oath of Office and blatantly dare the FBI and CIA to leak their dirty laundry. People don't care about your dirty laundry. People want the Congress to keep your Oath of Office to protect and defend the US Constitution. There are good guys and girls everywhere. Congress. CIA. FBI. Military. Media. This place and that. We know the bad guys are out to kill us. Good guys have nothing to lose by blowing the whistle on the bad guys. There is a wide spread rumor the Neocon directed USA military plan to bomb Iran Good Friday. Boy would that telling event. Besides getting the price of oil up to hurt the people financially, Satan's followers, Neocons, want to destroy Christianity and all religion, and what could be more symbolic than a Good Friday bomb fest.

 

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After the hearing, in the back of the Federal Appeals Court, Skolnick interviewed two hearing participants who admitted to Skolnick that the suppressed bank records involved Saddam Hussein's private business partner, George Herbert Walker Bush, the then U.S. President. Sources had earlier informed Skolnick of that, and Skolnick, to be careful, asked the same question about that THREE times and each time, the answer was the same: Bush was the private business partner of Saddam Hussein in billions of dollars of oil-kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein by the weak sheikdoms in the Persian Gulf.

In 1991, likewise published in that newspaper, "Spotlight", was Skolnick's exclusive story about the mysterious Bank of Credit and Commerce International: How the Bank of England for 30 days only had as a public record that BCCI bribed 25 per cent of both Houses of Congress, 108 Congressmen and 28 U.S. Senators.

April 17, 1995, a planeload of top U.S. Military brass, assassinated when their plane blew up by sabotage near Alexander City, Alabama,including Clark Feister, an assistant Secretary of the Air Force, close friend of the then Secretary of Defense Perry; Major General Glenn Profitt II, director of plans and operations for the Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Also the one who had been head of a super-secret military agency that was called Army Security Agency. They had on onboard, to confront Clinton and the Pentagon with lies, a live POW, supposedly not supposed to exist, from Southeast Asia. They were prepared to show how top U.S. officials, also cronies of Clinton, were in the dope traffic from S.E. Asia, "the Golden Triangle", including George Herbert Walker Bush, retired Pentagon official General Colin Powell, and former Pentagon official Richard Armitage. Also assassinated to prevent a military coup: The highest naval officer in uniform, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jeremy Boorda, assassinated in his office with several caliber weapons and disguised in the press as a "suicide". Also: General David McCloud, head of the Alaska Military District, site of the Early Warning System of missile attacks; murdered by way of a sabotaged air crash. Giving aid and assistance to these flag officers planning to arrest Clinton,was the former Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, assassinated near his vacation home and falsely written off as an alleged "boating accident". Colby had been general counsel of the CIA's bank proprietary, Nugan Hand Bank and their successor and alter ego, Household International and Household Bank. Household has their world headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, Illinois. Parked with Household was 58.4 million dollars of federal funds to make good the long-pending claims of Chicago-area caulking contractor, Joseph Andreuccetti, that a series of banks, including Household, perpetrated a massive swindle on him. 50 million dollars of that was secretly transferred to Little Rock, Arkansas to try to cover up the embezzlement of 47 million dollars from Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are subject to being federal criminally prosecuted and sent to prison for misappropriation. S & L owner Jim McDougal was murdered in jail the night before his testimony about all this. His ex-wife Susan has been repeatedly harassed to shut her up on what she knows about all this. Cong. Dan Burton [R., Ind.} started to put the details of the mysterious 50 million dollars and Clinton into the Congressional Record, 5/29/96, pages H5627-28. Was it blackmail, threats, or what? that stopped Burton from putting in ALL the details.

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"THE LATE GRAND DRAGON OF THE WASHINGTON POST"
by Sherman H. Skolnick 07/23/01

His fortune was ostensibly based on fraud. And his daughter ended up running the major espionage propaganda trumpet in the U.S. Capitol.

By 1912, it was evident that America was needed in Europe's upcoming and expected World War One. Basically, European-based ruling families foisted upon the American people a PRIVATE central bank, calling it by the misleading term of the FEDERAL RESERVE, as if it were a U.S. Government entity. The purpose was to suck huge money out of the growing, industrial U.S. to finance Europe's periodic killing fields, which were not part of any national purpose of the United States.

Re-elected President in 1916 as an alleged "peace" candidate, Woodrow Wilson, a professorial stooge for Wall Street, just a few weeks after being inaugurated in 1917, shoved American doughboys into Europe's own bloodbath. War music such as "Over There", was used to mold and pump up American opinion to favor WAR IN EUROPE. To help finance Europe's War, the U.S. sold through out America, as if it were "patriotic", war certificates called Liberty Bonds. A key figure in the sales was a Wall Street pirate, Eugene Meyer.

Meyer was later apparently rightly accused but never criminally prosecuted for having reportedly embezzled tens of millions of dollars from the Liberty Bond issues under his supervision. Cynics often note how big-time criminals are rewarded instead of jailed. Meyer became a Governor of the Federal Reserve, a ruling class device to instigate wars and depressions for high-level profits. Meyer went on in the early 1930s, to organize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation,a highly corrupt entity used to rescue certain failing banks [who secretly rewarded certain RFC insiders with bank stock] while ignoring other failing banks who did not pay off insiders. [A case in point being the Continental Bank of Chicago, now merged with Bank of America, owned principally by the Rothschilds, the Jesuits, and more recently, the Japanese mafia, the Yazuka. Continental almost went under in 1931.]

Meyer also went on to become the first President of the World Bank, accused by some as a trick for exploiting non-industrialized nations.

So, with his reputed massive funds embezzled from the Liberty Bond issues, Meyer found it easy, in the depths of the Great Depression, in 1933, to buy the Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale. Likewise in the Depression, Meyer's daughter Katharine, was trained at Rockefeller's University of Chicago. In the 1930s, key figures at the Teutonic-structured university and its adjoining hospitals were pro-Hitler [as to the hospitals, I have personal knowledge]. While other Chicagoans, including unpaid or unemployed teachers, ate out of garbage cans, the students at the pro-Nazi University came and went as if nothing important economic was happening.

Meyer, purportedly a Jew, married to a Lutheran, acted more like the German Jews that favored the Nazis. As to Katharine and her siblings, "The children were brought up in the traditions of St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, the church of presidents, where the Meyers--Mr. Meyer was Jewish, his wife Lutheran--had their own pew." New York Times, July 18, 2001.

Meyer came out of the so-called "investment bankers", and bond houses of Wall St. Those high up in those firms retain their Jewish surnames, but have not been followers of Judaism for several generations, having been converted to other religions. The public is seldom reminded of this. See the book "The New Crowd The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street", by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich, Barry J. Rehfeld, Little Brown & Co., 1989.

Katharine married Philip J. Graham, a lawyer, who went on to run his father-in-law's business the Washington Post. In 1963, a few months before the political assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Philip Graham either committed suicide or was murdered. Various explanations of his demise leave much to be considered. [Was there ever an adequate explanation by the Washington Post how Washington, D.C., had their entire phone system shut down during the JFK murder?] By 1963, already a long-time adjunct and front of the American CIA, the Washington Post, like the rest of the monopoly press, trumpeted the "lone assassin" explanation quickly planted by the espionage agencies.

In 1972, Katharine Graham as boss-lady of the Post, did at least two noteworthy acts [1] Under her control, the Post covered up the poison murder of the sinister dictator of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. And [2] under her control and on behalf of the American CIA, the Post was the orginator of most if not virtually all the stories about the alleged break-in at the Watergate Hotel, owned at the time by the Pope. The Post ran no stories pointing out as some European authors have, that the whole event was set-up by double-agents, like James McCord, long-time CIA official in charge of their physical security, to finger Nixon. Most every sizeable press, TV, and radio outlet merely repeated what the Post printed about "Watergate".

Mrs. Graham was in a position to know full well that Bob Woodward, with virtually no journalism background, had been a courier to the White House for CIA and others in the espionage community, incuding the military. Some authors contend, naming names, that some thirty admirals and generals planted the Watergate details on Woodward, an intelligence operative from a young age. It was the military way of getting rid of Richard M. Nixon, accused by them of treason in Viet Nam, without blowing out his brains in an open car like JFK. See "Silent Coup The Removal of the President", by Len Colodny, Robert Gettlin, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1991.

Hence, some contend that Bob Woodward and his Watergate book and articles, have been a mammoth fraud blindly repeated as valid by the liars and whores of the press.

Bob Woodward was the son of Du Page County Chief Judge Alfred Woodward. [Du Page is the county adjoining Cook County, site of Chicago.] It was strange to find out that Alfred Woodward had a long history of espionage, being an operative of BOTH Army and Naval Intelligence [supposedly that does not happen].

In 1973, Chief Judge Woodward had assigned to himself one of the most important but unpublicized cases in America. It involved a huge money laundry masquerading as a financial empire/insurance company. "The Equity Funding" scandal. The Chief Judge put himself in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars of monies and assets of this swindle machine. Among the creditors were teachers pension funds from around the nation. Also creditors into millions of dollars was Chief Watergate investigator Leon Jaworski and Nixon White House aide Bob Erlichman and his family. Ahead of most all of the other creditors, Chief Judge Woodward arbitrarily and corruptly paid out mostly in full to Jaworski and Erlichman. Teachers and other pension funds received almost nothing by Chief Judge Woodward's lawless orders.

Court records, by law, are in the custody and control of the Chief Clerk of the Court. Despite that, Chief Judge Woodward kept the Equity Funding files in his office, locked up in one of his file cabinets. He denied access to these "public records". One day in 1973, I showed up in his office demanding that I be permitted access to the court files he kept concealed there. I informed the Chief Judge I was going to sue him for unlawfully concealing public court records. He threatened to have me arrested for "contempt of court" inside his office. He realized, however, that would cause publicity of the very cases he was trying to keep secret. As a result of the stand-off, I obtained copies of the rare and revealing files. They support my contention that the Equity Funding mess was one of several secret methods of laundering funds by the Nixon White House for their dirty tricks against dissidents and peaceniks.

In later years, members of our group brought a federal court lawsuit against Judge Woodward and several other Du Page County judges. They were charged with, outside of court, engaging in satanic rituals in part linked reportedly to a hospital owned and operated by the Judges. As shown in federal court, the judges directed their rituals to misuse and brutalize small children, the parents of whom were among those accusing Judge Woodward and the judges as defendants in the federal suit. As a signal to insiders, on a key meeting date, one of the satantic ritual judges would put a purple flower on their judicial bench, according to the federal court pleadings. A Chicago federal judge, contending he had no time to consider such matters, refused to consider the facts and put the case arbitrarily out of court.

Following the notoriety of the "Watergate Affair", Katharine Graham repeatedly sent Bob Woodward to the Chicago-area for press conferences. And I came to each one as a reporter. When Woodward showed up, he pointed to me and shouted, "The press conference will not proceed until that man in the wheelchair is removed." There was no basis to force my removal. I had not even said hello to anyone. I was permitted to remain, however, when I told the security police I would sue for false arrest if they removed me, without any basis in law or fact, upon the orders of Bob Woodward as sent by Katharine Graham.

Bob Woodward evidently was fearful I would raise a question about the Watergate/Equity Funding mess, and about his father the Chief Judge. Bob Woodward suspected that I knew about the details that later showed up in the book "Silent Coup". At the press conferences, I was specifically forbidden to ask any questions.

A month after Nixon was re-elected President in 1972, there was a plane crash near Chicago's Midway Airport. Twelve Watergate figures died in the sabotaged crash, including Mrs. E. Howard Hunt, wife of the purported Watergate burglar. She was carrying two million dollars in her luggage which she placed on a separate first class seat next to her. This was Nixon White House "hush money" given to her by her husband reportedly blackmailing Nixon with documents showing Tricky Dick had been implicated in the murder of President Kennedy. The FBI had 150 of their agents already waiting near the airport for the plane to arrive. They apparently were going to arrest her for blackmailing Nixon. The plane pancaked short of the airport. In violation of law, the FBI cordoned off the crash site forbidding local fire, police, and hospital ambulances from approaching the smouldering United Air Lines plane.

In the months after the crash, based on our private investigations, I did radio talk shows all over the U.S. {I decided to withhold until months later, that we had "liberated" the entire National Transportation Safety Board file showing sabotage, some 1300 documents and photographs.] Reportedly on behalf of the American CIA, her bosses, Katharine Graham sent to Chicago to interview me her supposed crackajack reporter Ronald Kessler. After an interview of only a few minutes, he said he wanted to be driven back to O'Hare Airport to return to Washington. Kessler wrote a two-part front page series in the Post condemning and heckling me. {How could he know my position if he only spent a few minutes interviewing me?] Well-wishers, however, from all over North America called me, stating "Sherman, you must really have something for the Post to have you on the front page twice, heckling you for your investigations of the Watergate plane crash."

Ronald Kessler, in various books he has written, claims to be a CIA expert. Here are some of his books "Escape from the CIA", Pocket Books, N.Y., 1991. "Inside the CIA", Pocket Books, N.Y., 1992. "Inside The White House", Pocket Books, N.Y., 1995. "Moscow Station", Scribners, N.Y., 1989. "Spy vs. Spy", Scribners, N.Y., 1988. "The Spy in the Russian Club", Scribners, N.Y., 1990.

The original edition of a book pointing out Katharine Graham and the Washingon Post's connections to the American CIA was suppressed. "Katharine The Great Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire", by Deborah Davis, hardcover, 1991, Institute of Media Analysis, Inc.

The Washington Post, like others in the monopoly press, have several reporters who specialize in whitewashing espionage agency matters. Their specialty often is showing up late at night to interview an eyewitness in political assassination events. One such Washington Post reporter showed up after midnight to interview such a witness. An hour after the reporter left, the eyewitness was found murdered. Are some such reporters "pilot fish" for assassins? Why does this happen again and again over the years? A few examples Nuclear whistle blower Karen Silkwood was on the way to meeting a mass media reporter. She was planning to show documents of misuse of dangerous plutonium at the plant she was working. She was murdered on the way to the reporter. In the Clinton era, an eyewitness uncovered secret incriminating documents he remembered accidentally leaving in a car that ended up in the junk yard. Shortly after a monopoly press reporter interviewed him, he was murdered.

In the many decades Katharine Graham headed the Washington Post, no one seemed ever able to ask her about any of the foregoing. It is quite proper to call her THE LATE GRAND DRAGON OF THE WASHINGTON POST, adding, AND THE AMERICAN CIA.

Cynics find it interesting, that accidentally or otherwise, Katharine Graham fell on a sidewalk and broke her head. To some, an appropriate way to croak for someone as sinister as she was.

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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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It's worth noting here because, upon leave from Chestnut Lodge, Phil Graham blew his own brains out, in August of 1963.

Reading again from Katherine the Great:

Death preoccupied Phil all that Spring. Three times, with permission to leave Chestnut Lodge, he visited Edward Bennett Williams to re-write his will, each time reducing Katherine's share of his estate. On the second visit, he demanded that Williams burn the first will. On the third, he had him burn the second. These wills rescinded and superseded the carefully thought out document of longstanding, one that provided trust funds for his children and gave the bulk of his estate to his wife. After he died, during probate, Katherine's lawyer challenged the legality of the last will. The probate proceeding enabled Katherine to take control of the [Washington] Post with no significant legal problem. Although with the discredited will not on the public record, it is not known who Phil might have designated in her place.

Manic-depressives frequently plan their deaths on the anniversary of a significant event. Saturday, August 3rd, 1963, was the 15th anniversary of the formation of the Washington Post Company, the umbrella corporation for the Post and other property in which Katherine and Phil Graham were sole partners. On the morning of August 3rd, Phil telephoned Katherine from Chestnut Lodge and said that he was feeling much better. He asked if he could spend the weekend with her on their farm. Katherine called Joe Rowe(sp?) and told him happily, "Phil is better! He's coming home. Why don't you come over and see him on Tuesday?"

On Monday he would spend the day with the children. She picked him up at Chestnut Lodge that morning. They drove to a small Virginia town called Warrenton, in Fochier(sp?) County, 42 miles southwest of Washington, in the Virginia Hunt country. The farm, Glen Welby(sp?), was that of a gentleman and weekend hunter, equipped with television and telephones, books and paintings, shotguns for hunting deer and rifles for quail hunting parties, horses, servants, a large, well-stocked kitchen and bar. Katherine and Phil spent some time together, and then Katherine took a nap. Phil went downstairs, sat on the edge of the bathtub, and shot himself in the head.

Again, he may very well have been disturbed here. However one of the x-factors that's missing here from Debra Davis's ruminations on the death of Phil Graham is his long standing with intelligence and, in turn, the longstanding, ongoing, and highly successful attempts by the CIA to institute mind control, including training mind-control assassins and consequently (as we looked at in our Radio Free America series on mind control) to get some of those assassins (or apparent assassins: they're often used as decoys) to commit suicide. So whether or not the death of Phillip Graham here, who had become disenchanted with the pattern of CIA co-operation with the media, had anything at all to do with CIA mind control, remains to be seen. As we like to say here, "Food for thought, and grounds for further research." It is worth noting, though, that this happened just about 3 months before the assassination of President Kennedy. It's also worth noting that Phillip Graham's discredited wills might have invested the Washington Post (at least to a certain extent) away from the CIA which had been so inextricably involved with it from the very beginning.

And of course, one of the main names to take note of here -- again, by way of noting how the Washington Post really is part of a sort of old intelligence, old boy network here -- is the name of Edward Bennett Williams, the owner of the Washington Redskins for awhile, and now the Baltimore Orioles. Edward Bennett Williams is one of the prime, intelligence-related attorneys in the United States. His clients not only include Richard Helms, whose association with Ben Bradlee we looked at awhile ago (Helms, of course, CIA Director; CIA Director at the time of the overthrow of the Allende government, worked with Henry Kissinger, [Gloria] Steinem's old [boyfriend], among others.) But Edward Bennett Williams has represented John Connally, Jimmy Hoffa, Robert Vesco. And interestingly enough, it was while working as an investigator for Edward Bennett Williams's law firm, that Robert Maheu, formerly of the [Howard] Hughes organization, helped set up the organized crime assassination teams which were allegedly to be used against Castro, but there's some indication that they were used against John Kennedy instead. [CN: See, for example, "Alpha-66," CN 8.43] Again, documentation on that, on "Guns of November," program #1, the first of our 4 programs on the assassination of John Kennedy.

It's worth noting here now too, that surrounding the death of John Kennedy, we have an interesting situation that, not only does Phillip Graham "bow out" in sort of a grisly fashion, but also after John Kennedy was killed, in October of 1964, Mary Meyer, the ex-wife of Cord Meyer, the brother-in-law of Ben Bradlee (who himself had intelligence connections) -- Cord Meyer, a key CIA counter-intelligence official -- Mary Meyer was murdered, her diary then appropriated by CIA counter-intelligence chief James Angleton.

Reading again from Katherine the Great:

Ben Bradlee was considered by some members of the Washington press to be insensitive and ruthless, professionally and socially. He was indiscrete about having been on intimate terms with Kennedy, one aspect of which was that his sister-in-law, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who had lived in Bradlee's renovated garage, had been Kennedy's lover. Mary Meyer had been murdered in October of 1964. She was killed near her house, or by the C&O Canal in Georgetown, shot or stabbed. The location, even the manner of her death, varies with each account. Immediately after she died, James Angleton, the CIA's Chief of Counter-Intelligence, searched her apartment for a diary she had kept about Kennedy and took it to CIA headquarters. Supposedly to burn it, although because of his training he never destroyed any document. A year later, when Bradlee went to the [Washington] Post, the slaying was still unsolved. (It has never been solved. Bradlee was uncharacteristically silent about it.)

So the point here again is, right around the time John Kennedy was leaving this world, a lot of the people within the whole Washington Post axis (and again, I use that term ["axis"] advisedly) were also "bowing out" in grisly fashion: Phil Graham, and the late, unfortunate, Mary Pinchot Meyer, being a couple of them here.

Now the last two details that we're gonna look at here are, in a sense, a sort of an abbreviated look at the Washington Post involvement with CIA in the Watergate case. Now one of the aspects of Watergate that has not received enough publicity is the fact that it appears almost probable that the CIA, as well as other elements of the National Security establishment, wanted Richard Nixon out for a reason or reasons which are debatable. Debra Davis here gives some reasons; we're gonna entertain those. I'm gonna suggest a couple of others here in a couple of minutes.

Now we could go into the indications of CIA involvement in Watergate all day. Unfortunately, due to time limitations here, we're not gonna be able to do it. Suffice it to say that James McCord, who was a very high-ranking intelligence official, head of the security organization for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, led the Watergate burglars into the Watergate Hotel. Now one of the things that McCord did is, after placing a piece of tape on the door to alert him as to whether or not the "Plumbers'" presence had been discovered in the Watergate -- when he discovered that tape missing, he then replaced the tape without notifying the other Plumbers. For a man of McCord's very longstanding and sophisticated involvement with the intelligence community, that is frankly incredible, if one is to accept that James McCord was not a double agent placed within the Plumbers organization to get rid of Richard Nixon on behalf of CIA and others. That is the general view of most researchers, simply because as soon as McCord saw that tape missing he has to have known that their presence in the Watergate Hotel was discovered. There's no other conclusion. He placed the tape to alert him to a discovery. When he saw it was missing -- not just knocked off, but missing -- he has to have known that their presence was discovered. Despite that, he replaced the tape again; didn't alert the other Plumbers. And when the security guard at the Watergate Hotel saw that the tape was replaced again, he notified authorities. Because obviously he knew someone was in there. So again, that's just one of the many indicators that, in fact, Nixon's Plumbers unit was deep-sixed by CIA from the inside. The motives for doing so remain a matter of debate.

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From his corporate law work at Sullivan & Cromwell, the pre-eminent foreign policy law firm in America, Dulles was close to [Washington] Post company attorney Frederick S. Beeb(sp?) at Kravith, Swayne & Moore(sp?), another foreign policy firm. A quiet, thoughtful man, Beeb had been recruited out of Yale 1938 by Kravith senior partner Roswell Kilpatrick(sp?), later the Assistant Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War. At Kravith, Beeb had been assigned to handle estate planning and other legal affairs for the Meyer family

(That's the family from which Katherine Graham came, by the way.)

and eventually became their chief corporate as well as personal counsel, representing their interests in every significant transaction over three decades, including the legally complex, monopolistic acquisition of the Times-Herald in '54. The merger was critical for Katherine [Graham's] family, confirming their power and influence in Washington and making the paper financially "safe enough for her son Donny."

It was also critical to Hayes, Phil Graham, Beeb, Wisner, and Dulles -- men who had a political interest in her family's newspaper -- because the Times-Herald maintained a bank of dossiers routinely made available to the FBI, the CIA's rival in domestic Cold War intelligence. When Col. McCormick decided to sell his nearly bankrupt Washington newspaper, he asked Eugene Meyer the price of $8.5 million for it, about three times its worth. John Hayes went to Chicago in March of 1954 to make the initial payment in cash. The merger drove up the value of the Post's stock and made the executives richer. It also increased the CIA's access to information, news sources, and co-operative newsmen, to the benefit of [Operation] Mockingbird, which Frank Wisner had been expanding throughout the Cold War.

So, reviewing that section very briefly, not only in its acquisition of radio station WTOP, but also the McCormick newspaper the Washington Times-Herald, basically the CIA was intimately involved in assisting the [Washington] Post and thereby, obviously, also assisting itself, in cementing its relationship with one of this country's major papers.

Now the next element of the Washington Post/CIA association we're going to be looking at concerns Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, his brother-in-law (a man named Cord Meyer, a CIA counter-intelligence official operating under James Jesus Angleton), and also, a fellow named Richard Ober.

Now Richard Ober is a close friend and old buddy of Ben Bradlee. Richard Ober also went to work for CIA. And Richard Ober was to become "Deep Throat" himself. We're gonna talk about that in a minute. The point is, here, Cord Meyer is another CIA counter-intelligence official. He is the brother-in-law of Ben Bradlee.

In 1956, Ben and Toni Bradlee are part of a community of Americans who have remained in Paris after having been trained in intelligence during the war or in propaganda at the Economic Cooperation Administration. Many have now addressed themselves to fighting Communism, a less visible but more insidious enemy than Nazi-ism had been. Some of them, like Bradlee, are journalists who write from the Cold War point of view. Some are intelligence operatives who travel between Washington and Paris, London and Rome. In Washington, at Phillip Graham's salon, they plan and philosophize. In foreign cities, they do the work of keeping European Communism in check.

Bradlee's childhood friend, Richard Helms, is part of this group. He has written portions of the National Security Act of 1947, a set of laws creating a Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, the latter to support the CIA with research into codes and electronic communications. Helms is the Agency's chief expert on espionage. His agents penetrate the government of the Soviet Union and leftist political parties throughout Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. Angleton and Ober are counter-intelligence and run agents from Washington to Paris who do exactly the opposite: they prevent spies from penetrating American embassies, the State Department, the CIA itself.

Head of the third activity, covert operations, is Phil Graham's compatriot, Frank Wisner, the father of [Operation] Mockingbird, whose principal operative is a man named Cord Meyer, Jr. Meyer was a literature and philosophy major at Yale, and is consequently well-liked by Angleton who, when at Yale, thought of himself as a poet and edited a literary magazine. Meyer is married to Toni Bradlee's sister, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the woman who later became [John F.] Kennedy's lover and was murdered in 1964.

Among the fascinating and glamourous Americans of Paris, London and Rome, the Meyers are more fascinating and glamourous than the rest. Mary was the most brilliant and beautiful girl in her class at Vassar and is now a painter beginning to be critically recognized. Cord is an attractive and articulate figure whose evolution as an anti-Communist has given him a unique understanding of Communist trends in European trade union and Third World liberation movements. Because of this specialized knowledge, he is, as few men are, considered within the Agency to be indispensable.

The point is here that, not only was Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post, himself trained in intelligence, very close not only to Richard Helms (who was CIA Director at the time of Watergate), but also to Cord Meyer, his brother-in-law, a key CIA counter-intelligence official, and also [to] a man named Richard Ober. We're gonna talk about Richard Ober a little later.

But again, the point here is that the Washington Post is really (like many other newspapers in this country) inextricable from the U.S. intelligence establishment. And that very relationship was indispensable in helping the Washington Post to grow as an institution.

Now although Phillip Graham was one of the people who helped set up the working relationship between the [Washington] Post (and other news media) with the CIA, he eventually, for a reason or reasons unknown, began to disintegrate mentally. One of the interesting "symptoms" (if one could call it that) of his mental disintegration is that he became very vocal and critical about the CIA relationship with the news media. (Which, of course, he had helped to set up in the first place.)

Again, reading from Katherine the Great, of Phillip Graham, [Debra Davis] writes,

He had begun to talk, after his second breakdown, about the CIA's manipulation of journalists. He said it disturbed him. He said it to the CIA. His enchantment with journalism, it seemed, was fading. "Newspapers are the rough drafts of history," he now thought. "Media politics do not become history until the moral judgements are in."

As he became more desperate, unable to control the forces that controlled him (one of the manic-depressive's greatest fears), he turned against the newsmen and politicians whose code was mutual trust and, strangely, silence.

So it's worth noting here that, upon the eve of his death, which in turn was a few months before President Kennedy was to be killed (and obviously, the whole thing was very much in the workings at that time. People can check our archive tapes for that. [415-346-1840]). But it's interesting that Phillip Graham had become disenchanted, and vocally so, about the very relationship between CIA and the media that he had helped to set up in the first place.

Now eventually, as a result of this mental disintegration, Phillip Graham was interred in a very well-known mental institution called "Chestnut Lodge." Many people have suggested that Chestnut Lodge is one of the many CIA mind-control institutions or ones that have been affiliated with it. I can't document that. It's something I've heard said. But it is interesting in light of the longstanding and successful effort of the CIA to not only use mind-control techniques -- hypnosis, psycho-surgery, and psycho-pharmacology -- to get people to commit assassinations, but then to commit suicide themselves later, thereby sealing their lips.

[...to be continued...]


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