Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace

by Peter Janney

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  THE COMPLETION of this project represents the culmination of more than thirty-five years of contemplation and inquiry that began in 1976. Nearly fifty years after the mysterious murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath in Washington, D.C., there is still a dearth of information and evidence as to exactly what occurred. We may never discover all the answers, but we now know nearly all of the questions.