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Kennedy, Mary Meyer, and Suspicious Deaths of Saudi Princes

from Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou) · #54

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15 min

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Kiriakou discusses CIA spying on the Senate torture investigation, Dianne Feinstein's inaction, the theory that the CIA killed JFK's mistress Mary Meyer to hide Kennedy's plan to dismantle the agency, Michael Hastings' suspicious death, and two Saudi princes found in Abu Zubaydah's address book who died mysteriously.

In this bit10 moments
  • 1:12:01Tim asks why criminal investigations weren't opened against John Brennan for hacking the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers.
  • 1:12:35Lack of congressional oversight on the CIA—instead of oversight, there's congressional cheerleading.
  • 1:14:01Peter Janney's book 'Mary's Mosaic' uses CIA and DOD documents to argue the agency killed Mary Meyer, Kennedy's mistress, to prevent her from disclosing his plans to dismantle the CIA.
  • 1:15:24Journalist Michael Hastings died in a suspicious car accident while investigating powerful people and after telling friends the FBI was tapping him.
  • 1:17:19Even Hastings's own family believed the police investigation, but an intelligence background makes it harder to take anything off the table.
  • 1:18:02The CIA kept the 1953 coup in Iran secret for 30 to 40 years—the agency's capability for secrecy shouldn't be underestimated.
  • 1:19:05Many CIA officials are idiots, and coordinating complex operations with everyone keeping their mouth shut is harder than people think.
  • 1:19:54The Saudi Arabia angle in 9/11 remains inadequately explained to the American public, leaving space for conspiracy and conjecture.
  • 1:21:15Two Saudi princes found in Abu Zubaida's address book died mysteriously shortly after—one in a car accident, the other from dehydration while camping in the desert.
  • 1:26:02The Navy dumped Bin Laden's body at sea without offering proof to Americans, and the decision was probably stupid rather than calculated.
Mentioned here

John BrennanDianne FeinsteinCIASaudi ArabiatortureJohn F. KennedyMary MeyerFrank ChurchAbu ZubaydahPeter JanneyMichael HastingsOsama bin LadenSeymour HershTom DrakeCord MeyerKermit Roosevelt

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