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Mary's Mosaic: Mary Pinchot Meyer & John F. Kennedy And Their Vision For World Peace (2012)

by Peter Janney(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1616087080 (ISBN13: 9781616087081)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

review 1: I was 9 years and 8 months old when Nov. 22, 1963 brought the terrible and tragic news of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I still recall details from that day as if they were yesterday. The assassination of our beloved president was a permanent rending of the fabric of American innocence. Coincidentally, on that same day, another of my coming heroes, Aldous Huxley, passed on more gently with the aid of the then legally available psychiatric research compound, lysergic acid-N,N-diethylamide, also knows as LSD, which was administered to him upon his request by his wife, Laura Huxley. Aldous was a good friend of the Harvard researcher, Timothy Leary, who was a pioneer in the therapeutic applications of the drug. Leary also recalls meeting Mary Pinchot Meyer, who so... moreught him out in order to be trained in guiding a psychedelic journey for a Washington politician whom, she explained, could not come out publicly by joining Leary in a session guided by him, but must remain unnamed. There can be little doubt that Mary Pinchot Meyer was turning on JFK with the aim of opening the eyes of his soul to what he could really accomplish, especially within the arena of international relations. Dr. Peter Janney makes an utterly convincing case that this possibility posed a profound threat to others, with whom she was also intimate, in the leadership of our nation at that time; a threat that ran so deeply against the fabric of their beliefs that the only solution was to literally take down the Kennedy government, and, a year later, Mary Pinchot Meyer herself, the only other individual intimate enough with him and those who were threatened that she could blow the whistle on the corruption that was now steering America further into the Cold War and its dawning horrific impact on the small nation of Vietnam. America lost something of its soul at that time and, frankly, has never recovered. The nation we live in today was shaped by this turn of events. This turn of events led to our current government, co-opted by the corporate sector, increasingly intrusive into our privacy, stripping citizens of their basic rights by branding them a "terrorist," and even lethally targeting anyone perceived as a threat with drone strikes, and generally operating outside of any semblance of international law. War is terrorism. If you think that assassination of leaders in high places by the CIA was only limited to other nations at that time, then I urge you to read Mary's Mosaic and take a hard close look at the evidence Dr. Janney presents. It will blow your mind.
review 2: This book was written with a lot of passion by a boyhood friend of the victim's middle son. The author remembers Mary Pinchot Meyer's warmth as they both grieved for that boy when he was killed by a car and the coldness of his own father who, he later learns, had a small, but necessary role in the cover up of this former neighbor's assassination.I've been waiting for this book for 20+ years, or whenever it was that I learned of this death and its ramifications. While it is a year old, I just saw it in our public library. It apparently had no fanfare, made no best lists for 2012, nor found its way to any Goodreads lists. Skyhorse is not a major publisher. This says to me, after all this time, information on this dark episode must still be a target of suppression. In the end, Janney alludes to over 100 mysterious deaths of journalists (two specifically working on MPM) and others, like Mary Pinchot Meyer herself, likely to have knowledge of what happened in Dallas.As presented by Peter Janney, the Meyer Assassination is the Rosetta Stone for Kennedy's. Nowhere have I seen the motive so keenly drawn. Nowhere have I seen such good portraits of the CIA leadership. Janney shows how the CIA was operating independently and unaccountably. Mary Pinchot Meyer's husband ran Operation Mockingbird which had 3000 propagandists whose job was to present the CIA point of view and plant it in media outlets as news. The agency, de facto, set foreign policy by toppling governments around the globe. When it did not like the direction JFK was taking the country, it had no qualms about a US regime change. Janney has a episode that links Lyndon Johnson to foreknowledge of the JFK assassination, but I'm not sold. I see Johnson as a beneficiary of the assassination, but not part of it. I agree that his Vietnam escalation was due listening to the wrong people, but not why he listened. My take is that Johnson knew so little on foreign policy he deferred to those whom he considered experts. Mary knew, through her ex-husband, the inner workings of CIA and its key personnel. She knew the Warren Commission Report was a cover up. She had contacts, standing and nothing to lose but her life in pursuing the truth, which she had started to do. She was dangerous to have around.There are a number of surprises, the first being the involvement of Ben Bradlee of the "Washington Post" and Watergate fame and the last being the final days of James Angleton. Bradlee is particularly surprising because his paper broke the Watergate scandal. I've always felt the burglars were looking for evidence of CIA (and their own personal) involvement in the JFK assassination which they believed the Democratic Committee had in its possession.The portions on Bobby Kennedy suggest more work is needed on his assassination. You can see how dangerous he would have been to the prime movers at the CIA. The author was a bit wordy, but the work was thorough. The last two chapters, on "How it Went Down" were page turners.This book should have more media attention and should be more widely read. less

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