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82
.   James K. Galbraith and Heather A. Purcell, “Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?,”
American Prospect
5, no. 19 (September 1994): pp. 88–96.

Chapter 10.
Peace Song

1
.    Sally Bedell Smith,
Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
(New York: Random House, 2004), p. 315.

2
.    John F. Kennedy, “Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation” (televised speech, October 22, 1962), American Rhetoric,
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcubanmissilecrisis.html
(authenticity certified).

3
.    James W. Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
(Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008), p. 20.

4
.    Known as the “Pen Pal Correspondence,” the private letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev were published together in the State Department’s
Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS], 1961–1963
, vol. 6.,
Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966). They can also be accessed online; see “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” U.S. Department of State,
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/volume_vi/exchanges.html
. All quotations from
that correspondence appearing in this chapter were obtained at that web page.

5
.    Letter from Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, September 29, 1961, “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” no. 21. See note 4 above for location.

6
.    Letter from President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev, October 16, 1961, “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” no. 22. See note 4 above for location.

7
.    Leo Damore, interviews by the author, February 1992 and October 1992. Damore shared a number of incidents that Kenny O’Donnell had told him about concerning Mary and Jack, specifically mentioning Mary confronting Jack on the dangers of the resumption of nuclear testing in April 1962.

8
.    Telegram from the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 26, 1962, “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” no. 65.

9
.    Letter from Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 27, 1962, “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” no. 66.

10
.   Nikita Khrushchev,
Khrushchev Remembers
, trans. and ed. Strobe Talbott (New York: Bantam, 1971), pp. 497–498.

11
.   Michael Dobbs,
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
(New York: Knopf, 2008), p. 4. See also Robert S. McNamara,
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
(New York: Vintage, 1996), p. 341; Douglas P. Horne,
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Records in the Assassination of JFK
(printed by author, 2009), pp. 1710–1711, pp. 1716–1718, p. 1774. The most thorough account is contained in John D. Gresham and Norman Polmar,
Defcon-2
(Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006).

12
.   Interview with Robert S. McNamara, December 6, 1998, Episode 11, National Security Archive, George Washington University. Located at:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-11/mcnamara1.html

13
.   Richard Rhodes,
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 575. The author interviewed a retired SAC wing commander who told him, “I knew what my target was—Leningrad.”
The wing commander’s SAC alert bombers “deliberately flew past their turn around points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. The bombers only turned around when Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.”

14
.   Gresham and Polmar,
Defcon-2
, pp. 244–246.

15
.   Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), p. 524.

16
.   Ibid., p. 525.

17
.   Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable
, p. 44.

18
.   For background information on the life of Philip L. Graham, see David Halberstam,
The Powers That Be
(New York: Knopf, 1975); Deborah Davis,
Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979); Katharine Graham,
Personal History
(New York: Vintage, 1998); and Carol Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story
(New York: Seven Stories Press,1993).

19
.   There is extensive documentation of the existence of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, as noted in previous chapters. I am particularly indebted to the former CIA operative and author Victor Marchetti for the information he provided me during my interview with him on November 18, 2005, and October 4, 2007, in Ashburn, Virginia.

20
.   Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post
, pp. 372–373.

21
.   Ibid., pp. 197–198.

22
.   Halberstam,
Powers That Be
, pp. 381–382.

23
.   Ibid., pp. 215–216.

24
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 164.

25
.   Ibid.

26
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 349.

27
.   William Shover, interview by the author, March 18, 2009. Leo Damore also interviewed Shover on October 8, 1993.

28
.   Ben Bradlee, interview by the author, Washington, D.C., January 31, 2007.

29
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 349.

30
.   Graham,
Personal History
, p. 310.

31
.   Carol Felsenthal, interview by the author, August 10, 2010.

32
.   Ibid.

33
.   Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post
, p. 216.

34
.   Felsenthal, interview.

35
.   White House telephone logs, calls to Evelyn Lincoln on January 18, 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts.

36
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 165.

37
.   H. P. Albarelli Jr.,
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments
(Walterville, Ore.: Trine Day, 2009), p. 115.

38
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 165. See also Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post
, p. 206, p. 210.

39
.   Ibid., p. 168; Deborah Davis, interview by the author, March 17, 2009. See also “An Interview with Deborah Davis,” in
Popular Alienation: A Steamshovel Press Reader
, ed. Kenn Thomas (Lilburn, Ga.: IllumiNet Press, 1995), p. 83; Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post
, pp. 371–373.

40
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 160.

41
.   Ralph G. Martin,
Seeds of Destruction: Joe Kennedy and His Sons
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995), 322–323.

42
.   Ibid., p. 372.

43
.   Ralph G. Martin,
A Hero for Our Time: An Intimate Story of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Macmillan, 1983), p. 354.

44
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, pp. 351–352.

45
.   Ibid., p. 352. Adlai Stevenson’s letter to Marietta Tree on March 10, 1963, is in the collection Papers, 1917–1995, housed in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Boston, Mass.

46
.   Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 352.

47
.   Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
, 5: pp. 1382–1383.

48
.   Toni Shimon, interviews by the author, June 17, 2004, February 15, 2007, January 7, 2008, and March 30, 2010.

49
.   Shimon, interview, February 15, 2007.

50
.   Timothy Leary,
Flashbacks: An Autobiography
(Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1983), p. 162.

51
.   Ibid.

52
.   Ibid.

53
.   Ibid., p. 163.

54
.   Robert Greenfield,
Timothy Leary: A Biography
(New York: Harcourt, 2006), p. 199.

55
.   Timothy Leary,
High Priest
(Oakland, Calif.: Ronin, 1968), pp. 256–257.

56
.   Leary,
Flashbacks
, p. 171.

57
.   Leo Damore, interview by the author, Centerbrook, Conn., April 1993. Damore and I discussed the postcard Mary Meyer had allegedly sent Leary (
Flashbacks
, p. 171), which, according to Damore, was further confirmation of what his confidential source had told him. I suspected that the source of this information was Mary Meyer’s close friend Anne Chamberlin, whom I also knew, but who refused to be interviewed by me. Anne Chamberlin died on December 31, 2011.

58
.   Greenfield,
Timothy Leary
, p. 547. As of June 2011, the entire Timothy Leary archive has been purchased by the New York Public Library. The collection includes some 335 boxes of papers, videotapes, photographs, and more. See Patricia Cohen, “New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers,”
New York Times
, June 16, 2011, p. C1–2.

59
.   Glenn T. Seaborg,
Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban
. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), p. 199.

60
.   Alun Rees, “Nobel Prize Genius Crick Was High on LSD when He Discovered the Secret of Life,” Associated Newspapers, 2004. This article originally appeared in the
Mail on Sunday
(London), August 8, 2004. It can be viewed at Serendipity,
www.serendipity.li/dmt/crick_lsd.htm
.

61
.   Alcoholics Anonymous,
“Pass It On”: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World
(New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1995), pp. 370–371. See also Rich English, “The Dry Piper: The Strange Life and Times of Bill Wilson, Founder of A.A.,”
Modern Drunkard Magazine
,
www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-dry-piper.htm
.

62
.   John Markoff,
What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
(New York: Viking, 2005), pp. xviii–xix.

63
.   Interview with Oliver Stone on
Real Time With Bill Maher
HBO (episode #159). Original airdate: June 27, 2009.

64
.   R.R. Griffiths, W.A. Richards, U. McCann, and R. Jesse (2006) “Psilocybin can occasion mystical experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance.”
Psychopharmacology
187: pp. 268 - 283. Also, Griffiths, R.R.; Richards, W.A.; Johnson, M.W.; McCann, U.D.; Jesse, R. 2008. “Mystical-type experiences occasioned by psilocybin mediate the attribution of personal meaning and spiritual significance 14 months later.”
Journal of Psychopharmacology
22(6): pp. 621-632.