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   of a very good defense attorney, mainly due to the circumstantial   
   nature of the case. Many years after Mary's death, the National   
   Enquirer revealed that she had been a girlfriend of Kennedy.   
      
   Before getting into all the details of this story and its   
   aftermath, it is necessary to note a bit about Ben Bradlee's   
   actions in both the Exner and Meyer stories. Bradlee is   
   essential, not just because of his personal involvement in the   
   matters under discussion, but because he was the editor of the   
   Washington Post in 1976 when the Enquirer broke the story. As   
   with the Exner story, once the Meyer story broke, the Post gave   
   it its imprimatur by filling out certain elements of the story   
   and giving it respectable, mainstream play. Thirty five years   
   later, the essentials I have drawn out above are really all that   
   can be known for certain about this tale. All the remaining   
   details are hazy, confusing, or contested. This is not surprising   
   since two of the people involved in shaping the story are CIA   
   counterintelligence chief James Angleton and Ben Bradlee.   
      
   Relating to the Kennedy murder, much has been written about the   
   former (and more will come in Probe). Little has been written   
   about Bradlee (see the sidebar on page 30).   
      
   Bradlee, JFK & Meyer   
      
   Bradlee's background, and his need to hide it, are important in   
   his role with Kennedy and in the origin and evolution of the Mary   
   Meyer story. Bradlee has always tried to suggest that he had a   
   fairly normal, middle-class WASP background in Massachusetts. In   
   fact, in his book Conversations With Kennedy, there is a charming   
   subtext by Bradlee implying that Kennedy comes from a   
      
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