Cord Meyer (S&K 1942)
CIA Official. St. Pauls School. Yale University. Scroll and Key.
Came from wealthy family who made there money from sugar in Cuba (Search Bay of Pigs connection) and property on Long Island.
Feb 2001 - C. David Heymann asked Meyer during a book research interview if he still believed his wife had been “the victim of a sexually motivated assault”. Meyer replied: “My father died of a heart attack the same year Mary was killed, ” he whispered. “It was a bad time.” And what could he say about Mary Meyer? Who had committed such a heinous crime? “The same sons of bitches,” he hissed, “that killed John F. Kennedy.”. [3,p168]
17 Jun 1972 - Search Watergate Scandal
1962 - Meyer headed the Covert Action Staff of the directorate of plans.
Dec 1956, Meyer’s nine-year-old son, Michael, was hit by a car and killed. “Mary heard the screech of tires and the screams of her oldest son. She raced down the hill toward the awful scene. The driver who had struck Michael had become hysterical. An ambulance arrived, but it was too late. Mary would for the last time, hold and accompany Michael to the hospital, but not before she paused to comfort the driver who had struck her son, her rare compassion anchored in some deeper dimension.”.[4]
1955, Meyer’s sister Antoinette (Tony) married Ben Bradlee, who was then Washington bureau chief of Newsweek.[1] One of Pinchot Meyer’s close friends was her Vassar chum, Cicely d’Autremont, who married James Angleton.
Summer of 1954, JFK and his wife Jackie Kennedy bought the house next door to the Meyers’; Pinchot Meyer and Jackie Kennedy became acquainted and “they went on walks together.
After 1953, Operation Mockingbird network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. These organizations were run by people with well-known right-wing views such as William Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (S&B1920) (Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Philolexian Society/Rockefeller foundation) (New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Jerry O’Leary (Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor).[8]
1951 - Allen W. Dulles persuaded Cord Meyer [S&K 1942] to join the CIA. However, there is evidence that he was recruited several years earlier and had been spying on the liberal organizations he had been a member of in the later 1940s. According to Deborah Davis, Meyer became Mockingbird’s “principal operative”.[13]
1951 - Joined the CIA at the invitiation of Allen Dulles. (multiple join/start dates!)
1949 - Started working for the CIA, becoming Operation Mockingbird’s principal operative.[8]
1945 - Cord Meyer [S&K 1942] had been shocked by the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima (6 Aug 1945) and Nagasaki (9 Aug 1945). In an essay published in the New York Times Meyer described the bomb’s belittling effect on veterans such as himself: “The pillar of smoke over Japan on August 8 spelled in large letters for all who dared to read, not only the end of that war, but the end of our own security, no matter what our military strength.” Cord wrote in his journal: “Talked with Mary of how steadily depressing is our full realization of how little hope there is of avoiding the approaching catastrophe of atomic warfare.” The following year Meyer published a short-story about his war experiences, Waves of Darkness. Meyer expressed pacifist views in the book: “The only certain fruit of this insanity will be the rotting bodies upon which the sun will impartially shine tomorrow. Let us throw down these guns that we hate.”
1945 - He was an aide of Harold Stassen (Freemason) to the 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, and in 1947, was elected president of the United World Federalists, the organization he helped to fund.
WW2 - 1942 - Pacific War - 22nd Marine Regiment. Battle of Eniwetok and Guam as platoon leader, loosing his left eye in a grenade attack.
1942 - Graduated Yale, Scroll and Key
Died 13 Mar 2001, from Lymphoma. Age 80. Event + 37y3m20d (13, 627)
[1] - Spartacus Educational - Cord Meyer S&K 1942
[2] - Wiki - Hiroshima and Nagasaji
[3] - C. David Heymann, The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club 2003
[4] - Peter Janney, Mary’s Mosaic (2012) pages 189-190
[6] - Wiki - Cord Meyer S&K 1942
[7] - Find a Grave - Cord Meyer S&K 1942
[8] - Spartacus Educational - Frank Wisner Seven Society 1934
[9] - Spartacus Educational - Operation Mockingbird
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