* Angleton had taken on a strangely similar assignment after the October 1964 murder of a Washington socialite and painter, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was later identified as a former mistress of President Kennedy’s. Hours after the murder, Angleton, a family friend, was found inside her locked home by Washington journalist Ben Bradlee, Meyer’s brother-in-law and the future executive editor of the Washington Post. Angleton explained that he was looking for her diary, which she had told friends she wanted destroyed after her death. Angleton had apparently picked the lock, Bradlee said. When the diary was later found at Meyer’s painting studio, Bradlee’s wife gave it to Angleton to destroy. Bradlee saw the diary and said it contained “some handwritten descriptions” of what was “obviously an affair with the president.” (Interview of Ben Bradlee, October 5, 1995, “Booknotes,” C-SPAN.)
* They were shown it in 2012 and 2013 by the author of this book.
* CIA records identified Calvillo as an “unwitting” agent of the CIA, suggesting that he did not know that his handler worked for the agency. Investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, working with the Mexican government, were unable to track down Calvillo in Mexico. He has since died.
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