Let us have a closer look at Mariella Novotny. Mariella
often claimed that she was related to the former president of Czechoslovakia,
Antonin Novotny, and I believe her father was indeed Czech, however, according
to Christine Keeler’s autobiography her real name was the far more plain Stella
Capes and that seems to be borne out by this birth record from 1941.
Bizarrely a further records check does seem to show that she married old Hod using the names Marie S and Stella M Capes. Don’t ask me how that works? All I know is that I always knew her as Mariella, though I always called her Marie.
It was via the hand of Hod that Mariella first encountered one Harry Alan Towers. Dibben knew Stephen Ward and Ward introduced Mariella to Towers at a party. Towers of London was a film producer and another who lived in the febrile west London streets around Marylebone; Hallam Street in Towers case. Towers was also another well-known face at Murray’s Cabaret Club.
Despite the supposedly genuine nature of their marriage Hod
was not shy about whoring Mariella out and it was in this fashion that she
travelled to the USA in 1960, ostensibly on the pretext of gaining modelling
work. Within a matter of weeks she was meeting the actor Peter Lawford for
lunch who, in turn, arranged for her to attend a party frequented by his
brother-in-law John F Kennedy.
Marie being Marie she wasted no time before banging the
President’s brains out, although perhaps in light of later events I should
rephrase that! On one subsequent occasion she and fellow prostitute Suzy Chang
were asked to dress in uniform so that they could play Doctors and Nurses with
JFK! However, despite Mariella’s apparent willingness to do whatever it took
the good times did not last long.
By March 1961 Mariella had been nicked by the FBI who
followed up that stunning piece of detective work by arresting Towers three
days later. The FBI claimed that Towers was running a call-girl service and
that he had shipped Mariella over from the UK specifically to service his
clients. Given that Towers would have had a plethora of home-grown US broads to
choose from it is clear that Mariella had been brought over for far more than just
her blow-job technique!
In her statement for the FBI she claimed that Towers was a
Soviet agent who “provided the Russians
with information for the purposes of compromising certain prominent
individuals”.
But, as we already know from Mariella’s reaction to the
Soviet Ivanov, she hated the Reds so why would she so willingly go along with
Towers blackmail operation? Something is clearly amiss.
Towers would, somewhat conveniently, skip bail before his
trial and resume his film-making career abroad whilst Mariella would return to
London, the orgy scene and Hod’s loving embrace, but this does go some way to
demonstrate the already extraordinary interest taken in Stephen Ward and his
extortion network by the FBI some two years before the shit hit the fan in the
UK.
Ward had reportedly said to Christine Keeler and Ivanov that:
“A man like John Kennedy will not be allowed to stay in such an
important position of power in the world, I assure you of that.”
So, was this mere political foresight or did Ward have
inside knowledge of future events? Certainly by the end of 1963, and post
Ward’s own demise, Prime Minister Macmillan had resigned and Kennedy was dead.
Effectively, someone had organised political coups in two of the world’s
leading governments but, just who was it?
What we can say with some assurance is that a programme of
systematic sexual blackmail was in full swing. Girls from various backgrounds
were being lured into taking part in honeytrap operations so that someone,
somewhere, could compile a dirty dossier of establishment filth. The girls,
having successfully completed their leg-spreading duties, would then wind up conveniently
dead or discredited. Either way nobody was going to take seriously any
accusations that they may make.
Mariella Novotny, my lovely Marie, would make a brief cameo
appearance in the spotlight once more in 1977 when she was taken to court over
the rightful ownership of a flat in London. Bizarrely Hod took to the stand and
claimed that the woman in the dock was not Mariella, but his illegitimate, and
previously unknown, daughter Henrietta Chapman who was some thirteen years his
wife’s junior. The ever reliable Daily Mail then dug up Hod’s old
back-street-abortionist mate, Teddy Sugden, who promptly informed the world
that Henrietta was indeed Mariella.
As I mentioned earlier Mariella had a little black book and had been busily writing her memoirs when she died in 1983. Nobody knows where that little black book went.
So, what, if any, proof do we have?
At the time of the Profumo affair the US Ambassador to the
UK was a former OSS* guy called David Bruce. David Bruce was the ex-husband of Ailsa Mellon
Bruce, whose father Andrew had also been US Ambassador to the UK, and she was,
by virtue of her family’s voluminous business interests, one of the world’s
richest people. Bruce was becoming increasingly uneasy about the allegations he
was hearing in regards to Profumo and decided he needed to get to the bottom of
it.
*The Office
of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during
World War II. It was a wartime intelligence agency, and a predecessor of the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
To this end Ambassador Bruce sent his nephew William (Billy)
Mellon Hitchcock and Thomas J Corbally, who already knew Stephen Ward, to a meeting
with him to get to the heart of the matter. Apparently Corbally and Hitchcock
left this meeting convinced that the allegations surrounding Profumo were true.
Presumably Bruce then told the Conservative MP and MI5 man William
Shepherd who then told the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
How did Corbally know Ward? Well Corbally first met him at a party where Ward noticed the American was struggling with a knee complaint. One touch from the all-powerful healing hands of Ward was all it took to cure Corbally’s ailment and the pair became lifelong friends.
According to the book The
Hustlers by Douglas Thompson, Corbally had as impeccable Mafia connections
as he did CIA ones. Additionally a contemporaneous FBI report, declassified in
1987, characterized Mr Corbally as an American businessman “who reportedly ran sex orgies in his London flat”; something which
would clearly appeal to Stephen Ward.
Apparently Corbally shared this flat with Ambassador Bruce’s
nephew, William ‘Billy’ Hitchcock, despite Corbally being over fifty at the
time and Hitchcock being a young man in his twenties. Hitchcock was a member of
the extremely wealthy Hitchcock/Mellon
dynasty: his grandfather having founded Gulf Oil and his uncle, Andrew Mellon,
who had acquired a wealth valued in billions of dollars by the 1920s. The flat
that Corbally and Hitchcock shared was in Duke Street in Mayfair a few minutes
from where our friends from The Process: Church of the Final Judgement had
acquired an HQ in Balfour Place. Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies
all visited this flat; presumably to attend one of Corbally’s orgies?
Indeed, rather conveniently, when Peter Rachman, who was
Mandy’s lover at the time, faked his death we find Mandy holed-up in Paris with
a relative of Hitchcock’s – Senta Hitchcock.
William Hitchcock was also heavily involved in the CIA
fronted Castle Bank and Trust which was based in the Bahamas and which was
involved in tax evasion, as well as covertly funnelling funds for the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Coincidentally, I’m sure, when the fun-loving,
Alsatian-toting, black-caped Processean’s decided to decamp from London for
pastures new the first stop on their world tour was also in the Bahamas.
Thomas J. Corbally was a CIA informant. As was the
wheelchair bound movie writer and producer Earl Felton. Felton met
Christine Keeler at a New Year’s party, after which he kept in touch. According
to Chrissie’s autobiography The Truth at
Last:
‘Stephen had been telling him lies, feeding him false information and
indicating that I was spying for the Russians because of my love for Eugene (Ivanov). The message was to leave the country, say
nothing about anything I might have seen or heard.’
In 1962 an FBI memo written by J. Edgar Hoover stated that
Felton had taken part in sex orgies that involved Christine Keeler, Mandy
Rice-Davies, Mariella Novotny, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lord Astor, Eugene
Ivanov, John Profumo and Stephen Ward.
Felton is yet another of our stellar cast that would land up
suffering death by suicide.
William Hitchcock is also extremely intriguing because not
long after he returned to the US from England it was he who would help to fund
the legendary LSD guru Timothy Leary and even bequeath him use of one of the
family properties as a centre for psychedelic experiments, redolent in the
extreme of the Marquess of Tavistock. This is relevant because in 1962 one Mary Pinchot Meyer made
contact with Leary who, reportedly, supplied LSD to her for use with John F. Kennedy.
Leary also claimed that Mary helped influence Kennedy’s views on nuclear
disarmament and rapprochement with Cuba. It was later discovered that the FBI
was keeping a file on Mary.
Why, apart from the fact that she was sleeping with and supplying narcotics to JFK, would the FBI be interested in Mary Pinchot Meyer? Mary was married to Cord Meyer who aside from being a proponent of one-world-government – presumably on the presumption that this one-world-government would be run from Washington DC rather than Moscow or Beijing – was a prominent CIA official. So prominent, in fact, that he had been the CIA Chief of Station in London and was a major player in the delightful Operation Mockingbird.
Mockingbird, according to Wikipedia was a secret campaign by
the CIA to influence the media:
‘The organization recruited leading American journalists into a network
to help present the CIA’s views, and funded some student and cultural
organizations, and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to
influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by
other operating units of the CIA.’
The plan worked thusly:
‘The usual methodology was placing reports developed from intelligence
provided by the CIA to witting or unwitting reporters. Those reports would then
be repeated or cited by the preceding reporters which in turn would then be
cited throughout the media wire services. These networks were run by people
with well-known liberal but pro-American big business and anti-Soviet views.’
Essentially you plant a bogus story with a pet journalist
and then sit back and watch it gain validity with each subsequent retelling. It
is a classical political trick still in use to this day; if you repeat a lie
often enough people will accept it as the truth.
Eventually the FBI; or more specifically, J Edgar Hoover
became jealous of the power that the CIA wielded and so Hoover briefed Senator
Joseph McCarthy who, in turn, began accusing Meyer and others of being
communists. This would lead to President Eisenhower appointing an official to
write a damning report on the CIA and its covert operations. This report was
written by one David Bruce who, as you will recall, was by 1963 the US
Ambassador to the UK and was arranging for his nephew to meet Stephen Ward to
get the lowdown on the Profumo affair.
As an aside, when, in 1965, the broadcaster Alastair
Cooke discovered that two of his daughters had fallen into the clutches of The
Process: Church of the Final Judgement it was to Ambassador Bruce that Cooke
appealed for assistance. This action, therefore, presumes that Bruce had some
prior knowledge of the organisation and its workings.
This Anglo / American approach to turning on the world to
LSD was reciprocated by the UK via the presence stateside of Michael
Hollingshead who would merrily go around involuntarily dosing foreign leaders
through his job at the United Nations.
Hollingshead claimed that in 1961 he was involved with the Institute
of British-American Cultural Exchange; which appears to have been a Rockefeller
funded CIA front for its MK-Ultra programme.
Once Kennedy got into power he made a powerful enemy of the
CIA through his actions in Cuba and via his brother Robert’s own efforts to
eradicate organised crime in the US. If one views this scenario through the
eyes of Cord Meyer who perceived the Kennedys’ as representing a threat then it
becomes clear why such a fine, upstanding and not at all self-serving lackey
like Meyer may be prepared to whore out his ex-missus to the President.
One of the chief beneficiaries, if that is the right word,
of the Operation Mockingbird disclosures was Philip Graham, the owner
of the Washington Post, who, in January 1963, disclosed to a meeting of
newspaper editors that John F. Kennedy was having an affair with Mary Pinchot
Meyer.
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Which is odd on two counts; firstly, his colleagues decided
not to report on this highly salacious and, one would have thought, newsworthy
piece of information and, secondly, because Graham had been a long-time ally of
the Kennedys’, and Lyndon Johnson, and would often ghost-write their speeches.
So, what could have prompted this change of allegiance?
Someone had clearly gotten to him. Someone was spinning the spin doctor.
Shortly after making his allegations of Presidential
infidelity Graham suffered some sort of nervous breakdown and found himself
sedated, bound in a straitjacket and being flown back to Washington on-board
Air Force One where he was committed for five days to a psychiatric hospital.
It will, therefore, come as absolutely no surprise to you to learn that by August of 1963 Phillip Graham had added his name to the long list of characters in this tale whose lives where seemingly ended by their own hands, in this case at the business end of a 28-gauge shotgun.
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