Chapter 13 - The hand of Hod

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.

Philip Graham

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.

Chapter 14

Chapter 14 - Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Let us return to JFK’s acid peddling squeeze Mary Pinchot Meyer.

Mary Pinchot Meyer

Mary, like her husband Cord, was a convert to the one-world-government school of US global domination despite having been brought up in a left leaning family and having herself developed an interest in communism whilst a student. Whilst Cord busied himself shinning up the slippery pole of the CIA hierarchy the couple developed a friendship with Kathleen Graham, the wife of the aforementioned journalist Phillip Graham.

However, the Meyers marriage was destined not to survive and by 1958 Mary had filed for a divorce from the binds of Cord. By 1961 Mary was meeting JFK at the White House where she successfully managed to get her hands into the President’s pants. Reportedly the pair ‘had “about 30 trysts” and at least one author has claimed she brought marijuana or LSD to almost all of these meetings.’ Mary, it seems, was the queen of multi-tasking; she could simultaneously give blow jobs and blow your mind!

Sadly I have been unable to confirm who this mysterious author was but Timothy Leary, the ‘60s hippie and acid guru, claims that:

“She was taking part in a plan to avert worldwide nuclear war by convincing powerful male members of the Washington establishment to take mind-altering drugs, which would presumably lead them to conclude that the Cold War was meaningless.”

Ok, I get it, she didn’t really want to fuck the young and dynamic leader of the so-called free world she was merely doing it to save us all from the perils of nuclear holocaust! I guess it was just easier and more convenient to pop into the White House for a quickie in the Oval Office than to nip over to Moscow to suck off Khrushchev.

Kennedy, for his part, also presumably thought he was doing his bit for world peace and international relations by simultaneously knobbing a Czech, a Chinese, an East German, an American and, if he had the energy, his wife. Oh, and Marilyn Monroe.

Furthermore:

‘according to Leary, Pinchot Meyer said she had shared in this plan with at least seven other Washington socialite friends who held similar political views and were trying to supply LSD to a small circle of high ranking government officials. Leary also claimed that Pinchot Meyer had asked him for help while in a state of fear for her own life after the assassination of President Kennedy.

According to his biography, Flashbacks Timothy Leary claims that Mary phoned him the day after Kennedy was assassinated saying: “They couldn’t control him anymore. He was changing too fast. He was learning too much... They’ll cover everything up. I gotta come see you. I’m scared. I’m afraid”.’

On 12th October, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot dead; murdered, apparently the victim of a hired assassin. As for that perpetual twat Timothy Leary, he would end up turning on, tuning in and dropping out to such an extent that he found himself sharing a prison cell with Charles Manson: but we shall return to old Charlie boy in the fullness of time.

First we must explore the nefarious links between the CIA and LSD and this, in turn, leads us to the activities of one Ronald Hadley Stark.

Ronald Stark

Poor old Ron, he had the kind of face even a mother would despise but whilst he may not have possessed good looks, or even a full head of hair, he did have a British passport. Official British sources have refused to reveal how Stark got hold of an authentic passport in the name of Terrence W Abbott, I guess in fear of recriminations; in much the same way as Ron’s wigmaker would never publically confess to having designed his shocking syrup*.

*Syrup: Cockney rhyming slang, short for syrup of figs = wig.

Ron also had a shitload of acid and a mission: to use LSD in order to facilitate the overthrow of the political systems of both the capitalist West and communist East by inducing altered states of consciousness in millions of people.

Which is similar, is it not, to the somewhat deranged ramblings of Mary Pinchot Meyer. The principle differences being that whilst Mary thought she could bring about global peace and a new world order simply by tripping out a few government top cheeses, Ron wanted to mind-fuck the entire world.

Now Ron would take over a hippie collective that went by the groovy name of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love who may well, at one time, have been a bunch of long-haired, dope smoking, peace loving sandal wearers but, with Ron’s elevation to head honcho, actually became an outlet for supplying most of the western world with CIA produced acid. Stark also had links in England with the psychiatrist R.D. Laing and the conspiracy theorists favourite wet-dream outlet the Tavistock Institute.

There is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that the free festival movement that was to burgeon and mushroom in England in the seventies was created specifically to disseminate the Brotherhoods LSD to the masses. Indeed, a massive LSD production operation based in Wales that was busted at the conclusion of the infamous Operation Julie has more than a trace of Ronald Stark’s fingerprints all over it. This operation was based in the tiny Welsh village of Llandewi Brevi which by then had as a resident one very out of place Londoner by the name of David Litvinoff; last heard off enjoying a bizarre ménage a trois scenario with his fella and a deranged Kray twin.

Although this LSD operation occurred after the incarceration of the twins Litvinoff’s presence is, nonetheless, indicative of the establishment of a trade route for the acid back to the big smoke in much the same way the Jack the Stripper victims were orchestrating the movement of speed across the capital.

Litvinoff, whose reputation was made as a ‘gangster consultant’ for the film Performance starring Mick Jagger, met a tragic end in 1975 when he became the latest of our glittering cast to succumb to one too many sleeping pills!

David Litvinoff, the only gay in the village

To recap: we have Ronald Stark supervising the production and distribution of CIA LSD across the US and Europe via the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, an organization described by the US government as “the dealing arm of Tim Leary’s League for Spiritual Discovery”; furthermore, US government prosecutors would receive testimony, in exchange for immunity, from William Mellon Hitchcock that he “had the ability to launder money through foreign bank accounts” and that he had assisted in setting up bank accounts in the Bahamas and Switzerland.

This bank account being with the CIA fronted Castle Bank and Trust based in the Bahamas that we have mentioned previously, and William Mellon Hitchcock who was the guy that shared a flat in London with Thomas Corbally, the CIA asset, who, you may recall, met Stephen Ward to discuss the Profumo affair and who shared Ward’s predilection for kinky parties.

As did the film-maker, Earl Fenton, another CIA asset, to whom Stephen Ward was feeding false information a là Operation Mockingbird.

All of which establishes a link between Ward and his cohorts and the US group that was providing CIA produced LSD to Mary Pinchot Meyer who, in turn, supplied it to JFK.

We also know that The Process: Church of the Final Judgement visited the Bahamas upon their departure from London in 1966. They claim that they were there searching for a place to continue their so-called psychological research, a place far away from the notoriety of being The Mindbenders of Mayfair as the tabloids called them. In reality they were there to establish a Castle Bank and Trust slush fund account before departing for the US to distribute their peculiar dogma to the primary purveyors of the CIA produced acid; the Californian love children. This being the first step in their master plan to invoke world peace via the means of a post global-race-war induced anarchy engineered by manufactured serial-killers!

Let us consider a brief timeline of events:

On August 3, 1963, Phillip Graham, the journalist and one-time Kennedy ally who informed the media about JFK’s affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer and the principle recipient of bogus stories via the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, is shot dead, purportedly, by his own hand.

This very same day, in London, Dr Stephen Ward, the man at the heart of the Profumo affair, dies from a supposedly self-imposed overdose of sleeping pills.

Three months later on November 22, 1963, John F Kennedy is shot dead in Dallas, Texas. On the same day the author, and new-world-order champion, Aldous Huxley also dies.

On October 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer is shot dead by a hired assassin and with her demise the trail back to the CIA and its LSD operation is also terminated.

Indeed, if the CIA were convinced that LSD held the potential to brainwash world leaders, or at the very least lead them into compromising situations from which they would be vulnerable to blackmail, then it would not be too much of a stretch to surmise that the ensuing hippie phenomenon was a CIA construct designed to brainwash an entire generation into believing that love and peace and a flower in your hair would be enough to take their minds off the huge arse-fucking they were about to receive from corporate, capitalist America.

Given that the entire ‘flower-power’ movement was a very short-lived phenomenon, and that it had itself evolved from earlier sub-cultures, it may be too much of a stretch to claim that it was devised entirely as an establishment plot, however, the establishment links to the elements that were parachuted in to poison the movement (the Process, Manson etc.) are all too evident to witness.

Certainly the cum-stains of Ward’s girls can be found all over the events that led to the end of both the Macmillan and Kennedy administrations. It is a high profile conspiracy indeed that can cause regime change in two of the world’s most powerful nations.

But the links don’t stop there. On 28th October, 1962, Stephen Ward introduced Christine Keeler to the lawyer Michael Eddowes who would go on to provide legal assistance to Chrissie. Ward first met Eddowes when he treated him at his, Cliveden Set financed, London practice following a car accident. There, also in October of 1962, Ward introduced him to Soviet Naval attaché Eugene Ivanov.

In 1975 Eddowes published a book, Khrushchev Killed Kennedy, in which he argued that Kennedy was killed by a Soviet agent impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald.

Twenty-five minutes before the assassination of JFK someone telephoned the Cambridge Evening News in the UK warning of “big news” and suggested the paper call the US embassy in London. When this story emerged it was claimed the phone-call was anonymous. However, later that day a CIA officer based in London sent a telegram to their office in Washington claiming “some similar phone-calls of strangely coincidental nature previously received in this country over the past year, particularly in connection with the Dr Ward’s case.”

Which is a delicious coincidence, do you not think? Could Eddowes have made the calls? Could Eddowes have been working for British intelligence? Could Eddowes have been an informant?

It has been suggested that it was Michael Eddowes who introduced Chrissie to Paul Mann; Mann, we should remember, was suspected of being an MI5 agent by Johnny Edgecombe and Eddowes himself was known to boast of having been an intelligence officer.

The clear implication here is that the same people who snuffed out Ward for what he knew also took out JFK. Somebody, the mysterious caller, clearly also knew in advance these events were about to take place.

Another candidate for the mystery caller was a Russian journalist by the name of Victor Louis, real name Vitaly Yuvgenyevich Lui, who wrote for the Cambridge Evening News and who will crop up again in this affair. More circles within circles.

Chapter 15