(1920-2001) CIA agent (In a taped interview E. Howard Hunt claimed that Meyer was one of 4 main instigators of the JFK assassination. Mark Gorton states that Meyer was in charge of the cover up operation.), architect of the Operation Mockingbird disinformation apparatus, husband of Mary Meyer (who had an affair with JFK) until their divorce in 1958, attendee at the San Francisco conference that formed the UN, one of the first targets of Joseph McCarthy as a covert communist, and headed the International Organization Division (IOD). As head of the IOD, Meyer oversaw the funding of groups such as the National Student Association, Communications Workers of America, the American Newspaper Guild, the United Auto Workers, National Council of Churches, the African-American Institute and the National Education Association. According to Frank Church, Meyer ran a division which constituted the greatest single concentration of covert political and propaganda activities of the by now octopus-like CIA
Meyer’s former wife, Mary, was most likely killed by a professional hitman within a year of the JFK assassination. In 1958, Mary Pinchot Meyer filed for divorce. In her divorce petition she alleged “extreme cruelty, mental in nature, which seriously injured her health, destroyed her happiness, rendered further cohabitation unendurable and compelled the parties to separate.”
After Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (who was later suicided) personally alerted former Marine and freshman Senator Joseph McCarthy to the Communist menace and “named names” of key persons in our federal government who were consistently shaping our policies and programs to benefit Soviet Russia, one of his first targets was Cord Meyer, who was still working for Operation Mockingbird. In August, 1953, Richard Helms, Wisner’s deputy at the OPC, told Meyer that Joseph McCarthy had accused him of being a communist and J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI was unwilling to give Meyer “security clearance.” Allen W. Dulles came to his defense and refused to permit a FBI interrogation of Meyer. The VENONA Project files, declassified in 1995, provided indisputable evidence that nearly all of those McCarthy accused were traitors to America.
Meyer’s work for the “liberal” cause to create a world government is everywhere tinged with “conservative” cause of the covert world. In a conversation with Burton Hersh about Cord Meyer’s relationship with the infamous James Jesus Angleton, Tom Braden once said “Jim sucked Cord Meyer in, in my view. Cord Meyer became not only a great admirerer, but also believer.” (The Old Boys, 1992) Hersh also had this to say about Mary Pinchot Meyer’s murder: “Angleton’s obsession with nurturing his friends started people referring to him quite openly as “Mother.” “When Cord Meyer’s ex-wife Mary was murdered while exercising on the path next to the Potomac canal,” one bystander alleges, “Angleton had already let himself into her house with a key he kept to the place even before the cops turned up. I think he was after paper he knew she kept in her bedroom which had to do with her affair with John Kennedy.”
According to J. Orlin Grabbe, Meyer recruited Bill Clinton for covert work while stationed in London.
Cord Meyer, the son of a senior diplomat, was born on 10th November, 1920. The Meyer family was extremely wealthy and had made its money from sugar in Cuba and from property on Long Island. Mayer’s father fought in the First World War; “My father had served in the First World War as a fighter pilot on the Western Front and my mother as a nurse in army hospitals in France, and, after they married, he had served in the diplomatic service abroad for a few years.”
The family settled in New York City. Cord and his twin brother, Quintin, attended private school in Switzerland and then St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. In 1939 Meyer went to Yale University to study literature and philosophy. He found it a rewarding experience: “To me and to many of my classmates, the wide learning and intellectual brilliance of most of our professors was a revelation after the more limited teaching ability we had experienced in our high schools. I felt as if the doors had been thrown open and I had been ushered into a vast and splendid chamber where delicacies had been laid out in such profusion that one hardly knew where to begin.”
Cord Meyer became involved in the debate on the Second World War in Europe. He had no sympathy for the American First Committee: “The idealistic wing of the America First movement urged that we stay out of the ancient quarrels of the corrupt continent and concentrate instead on building a just society in our own land that could serve as a model and example to the world. The anti-war writing of the thirties and the history we had been taught of the bloody and inconclusive folly of the First World War led many to support this isolationist position. The interventionists stressed the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship and warned that, if we did not come to England’s aid, we would be left alone to face Hitler’s conquering armies.”
After fighting in WWII, Meyer returned home and married Mary Pinchot on 19th April, 1945. Soon afterwards the couple went to San Francisco to attend the conference that established the United Nations. Cord went as an aide to Harold Stassen, whereas Mary, who was working for the North American Newspaper Alliance at the time, was one of the reporters sent to cover this important event. “As the conference got under way, I watched with growing concern the construction of the foundations and scaffolding of the new international organization that was to replace the defunct League of Nations.”
Cord proposed that the UN be granted authority to oversee nuclear power installations inside member countries. He also argued that the UN should be given the authority to prevent war and “the armed power to back it up.” Like her husband, Mary became an advocate of world government. In May, 1947, Cord was elected president of the United World Federalists. “My reason for making such an abrupt change in my career was a conviction that the United States, through its atomic monopoly, had for a brief period the opportunity to lead the world toward effective international control of the bomb.” Under his leadership, membership of the organization doubled in size. Albert Einstein was one of his most important supporters and personally solicited funds for the organization. Mary wrote for its journal, The United World Federalists.
Mary’s third child, Mark, was born in 1950. Soon afterwards Allen W. Dulles made contact with her husband. “Allen Dulles, who was at the time deputy director for plans of the Central Intelligence Agency… He was kind enough to give me more than an hour of his time, and we had a fasinating discussion. In a serious and careful way, he spelled out the nature of the world situation as he saw it and the complex challenge with which we were confronted by Stalin’s regime… At the end of the meeting, he made me a firm offer of a job with the Agency at a middlelevel of executive responsibility and assured me that the work would be suited to my abilities and past experience, although for security reasons he could not describe the job in any detail.”
Meyer became part of what became known as Operation Mockingbird, a CIA program to influence the mass media. According to Deborah Davis, the author of Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post (1979) Meyer was Mockingbird’s “principal operative”. Richard Bissell called Cord Meyer “the creative genius behind convert operations”. (18) Davis claims that “By the early 1950s, Wisner had implemented his plan and ‘owned’ respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all… Whether the journalists thought of themselves as helpers of the agency or merely as patriots, agreeing to run stories that would benefit their country.”
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