Echoes Of Laurel Canyon - Part Five

Marilyn Monroe Made Billions For Others With Drones, Warplanes, and Missiles

In this series, we have been chronicling how Washington, D.C., took over Hollywood with the formation of the CIA after World War II in what I call Operation Hollywood. One of the women used in compromise operations to lure powerful political figures into compromising situations for Marilyn Monroe, used as bait for both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

This series is all about the intelligence agencies’ compromise operations to control who runs America. Let’s call it Operation Hollywood.

Part of telling that story is describing the unknown story of Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe being used as sexual lures to the two most famous assassinated figures in US history in the 20th century- John F. Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy.

📍 People

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane, began her career at RadioPlane, a military drone company in Van Nuys, before being discovered by Ronald Reagan’s photographer. Her early life, including abuse in foster homes and an institutionalized mother, contrasts sharply with her constructed Hollywood mythos. Monroe became romantically involved with both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, allegedly used as a sexual lure by intelligence-linked handlers. She was also an FBI informant from 1955 until her suspicious death in 1962.

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

JFK, future U.S. president, was allegedly romantically linked to Marilyn Monroe and was part of elite Hollywood party circuits as a congressman. He dated several actresses and was targeted by intelligence-linked honeytrap schemes. His family's involvement in Hollywood through his father, Joseph Kennedy, connects him to RKO Pictures and its internal intrigue. His assassination is tied to broader CIA-power consolidation themes explored in the series.

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK)

RFK, Attorney General and presidential candidate, was also romantically linked to Monroe and entangled in Hollywood affairs. His involvement in her life has been portrayed as part of a sexual blackmail operation. The narrative implies he was drawn into CIA-driven compromise games via Marilyn. Like his brother, RFK's assassination is portrayed as related to covert intelligence operations.

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

JFK and RFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, was a bootlegging magnate who bought into RKO Pictures during the Depression. He allegedly used Hollywood studios for political and sexual leverage, positioning Monroe’s parents inside RKO as intelligence assets. His role as a procurer of young actresses for compromise operations is emphasized. Kennedy’s media influence was buttressed by ties to William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper empire.

Gladys Monroe (Marilyn’s mother)

Gladys worked at both RKO and Consolidated Film and was reportedly drugged and institutionalized, losing custody of her children. The article claims her employment at RKO was used to place her into CIA-led blackmail operations. She remained with Marilyn until her daughter’s early molestation and psychological trauma. Her story is reinterpreted to support the compromise narrative around Monroe’s life.

Marilyn Monroe’s Father

Unnamed, he allegedly worked at RKO and served as a "finder" of young starlets for Joseph Kennedy. The article frames him as a complicit agent in the early grooming of Monroe for intelligence and Hollywood exploitation. His role contradicts traditional accounts that he abandoned Marilyn at birth. He is key to Webb’s theory of Monroe being bred for compromise.

Reginald Denny

An actor and pioneer in UAV technology, Denny ran RadioPlane, where Monroe worked in 1944. His dual identity in acting and military drone development exemplifies the Hollywood-intelligence nexus. Denny’s connection to Monroe suggests early military-industrial exposure. RadioPlane was later absorbed by Northrop Grumman, linking her life to the broader defense sector.

Ronald Reagan

Then a military captain, Reagan discovered Monroe for modeling through a scout named Mr. Conover. Later questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Reagan’s Hollywood-to-White House trajectory is framed as CIA-enabled. His early role in Monroe’s life is emphasized as pivotal in transitioning her into state-driven propaganda. He symbolizes the actor-politician mold shaped in part by Hollywood intelligence operations.

Mr. Conover

A military photographer or talent scout who discovered Monroe alongside Reagan in 1945. He represents the military-Hollywood recruitment pipeline for female talent. His role, though minor, is significant in Monroe’s transition from factory worker to model. He underscores the state’s covert grooming process of Monroe.

Dr. Hyman Engelberg

Monroe’s doctor, later scrutinized as a Communist during HUAC hearings. He symbolizes the Red Scare's reach into private medical and personal relationships. Engelberg’s involvement suggests an intelligence connection monitoring Monroe. His scrutiny overlaps with the same committee that questioned Reagan.

George Hodel

A former OSS physician, Hodel allegedly ran drug and abortion rings in LA while procuring girls for intelligence compromise operations. He is tied to the murder of Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia) and helped establish Wuhan as a CIA-linked virology hub. Hodel is portrayed as a sinister handler of Monroe-type assets. His reach extended into Hollywood, medicine, and bioweapons development.

Robert Maheu

Howard Hughes’s right-hand man and OSS veteran, Maheu worked with Hodel to run sexual compromise operations targeting executives and politicians. He helped acquire RKO Studios and facilitated the use of women like Monroe for political leverage. Maheu is seen as a central fixer for both intelligence and industrial power consolidation. He connects the Hughes empire directly to the intelligence community.

John Huston

Oscar-winning director allegedly involved in CIA honeytrap and blackmail activities. Directed Monroe’s early film The Asphalt Jungle and later collaborated with Roman Polanski on films with incest themes. Huston’s career is presented as deeply entwined with intelligence sexpionage. He was part of the artistic cover for exploitative operations.

Howard Hughes

Billionaire industrialist revived after a near-fatal crash by seeing Monroe on a magazine cover. Hughes ordered her signed and later took over RKO Studios, bringing it under intelligence influence. His aviation and entertainment empire merged under CIA-linked figures like Maheu. He’s symbolic of the intelligence-industrial-entertainment trifecta.

Daryl Zanuck

Studio head at 20th Century Fox who signed Monroe after seeing her screen test. Credited with reviving Fox during WWII, Zanuck is presented as an opportunistic power broker. His role reinforces Hollywood’s complicity in grooming starlets for national narratives. He provided Monroe’s breakout role, aligning with intelligence needs.

Inga Arvad

Danish journalist, former lover of JFK, and FBI surveillance target. Arvad had connections to Nazi leadership, attending the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s box. She is depicted as an earlier version of Monroe in intelligence honeytrap operations. Her association with King Edward VIII and use of Bahamas shell companies reinforces global intelligence themes.

Roman Polanski

Director married to Sharon Tate, he created films based on father-daughter incest that mirrored Monroe’s trauma. Polanski’s connection to Huston adds another layer to the Hollywood-pedophile-blackmail network. He is included to underscore the intergenerational pattern of sexual control. Tate is portrayed as another lure in the Kennedy orbit.

Sharon Tate

Sex symbol and wife of Roman Polanski, Tate is presented as another "Kennedy lure" like Monroe. Her violent death echoes Monroe’s fate and suggests her entrapment in similar CIA schemes. She connects the old and new Hollywood compromises. Tate's life reinforces the article's motif of starlets used as assets.

Gene Tierney & Sonja Henie

Both early Hollywood stars and alleged romantic interests of JFK. Tierney is presented as Monroe’s model, while Henie was connected to European royal circles. Their stories highlight JFK’s involvement in a pattern of intelligence-driven romantic entanglements. They bridge European and American aristocratic influences in Hollywood.

Robert Allen Hale

To be covered in a future post, Hale is implicated in Monroe’s death. Likely connected to postwar surveillance aircraft development. He may represent another military-industrial actor in the wider Monroe narrative. His role awaits expansion in Part 6.

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🏛️ Organizations

CIA

Formed in 1947, the CIA allegedly took over Hollywood influence operations from the OSS, using HUAC as a bludgeon to control studios like RKO. The agency ran blackmail and compromise ops using women like Monroe to influence elites in politics, aviation, and media. CIA-backed figures like Mahue and Hodel targeted dissenters like Orson Welles. Hollywood became a psychological warfare front for national power projection.

RKO Pictures

A studio owned by Joseph Kennedy, RKO produced Citizen Kane and employed Monroe’s parents. It was allegedly dismantled by CIA-linked figures like Mahue and Hughes. The studio’s fall symbolizes the handover of entertainment to intelligence control. Its destruction was part of consolidating propaganda power in Hollywood.

RadioPlane

An early drone manufacturer where Monroe worked in 1944. Owned by Reginald Denny, it was later acquired by Northrop Grumman. It symbolizes the intersection of Hollywood labor and military-industrial growth. Monroe’s role there foreshadowed her future use in national narrative manipulation.

Consolidated Film Industries

Processed negatives for RKO and other studios. Employed Gladys Monroe. Seen as part of the infrastructure used to embed intelligence assets inside Hollywood. Its omission from official histories is seen as suspicious.

Northrop Grumman

Acquired RadioPlane and continued drone development. Ties Monroe’s early labor history to modern defense tech. A symbol of how Hollywood and defense evolved in tandem. Represents the enduring industrial legacy of Monroe’s early employer.

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Used by the CIA to intimidate and control Hollywood through Red Scare tactics. Investigated Reagan, Engelberg, and others. HUAC was a tool for enforcing ideological conformity and compliance in the entertainment industry. It also helped justify the purge of Joseph Kennedy’s influence.

OSS (Office of Strategic Services)

Predecessor to the CIA, OSS trained figures like George Hodel and Robert Maheu. Conducted operations in Asia and ran early domestic psychological warfare ops. OSS veterans transitioned to Hollywood powerbrokers. OSS helped establish networks that merged sexpionage and industrial control.

20th Century Fox

The studio that signed Monroe to her breakout contract, led by Daryl Zanuck, became a launchpad for intelligence-groomed stars. It played a central role in shaping wartime American identity and symbolized Hollywood’s submission to deeper state agendas.

Marilyn Monroe worked for RadioPlane, the first UAV drone company in the history of the US Military, in Van Nuys, California, in 1944. It was run by a man named Reginald Denny (sound familiar?).

Soon after, future President, Captain Ronald Reagan discovered Marylin Monroe with one of his photography scouts (Mr. Conover), and she transitioned into modeling in 1945. Marilyn Monroe’s doctor, Dr. Engelberg, would later come under scrutiny as a Communist by the same House UnAmerican Activities Committee that questioned Reagan in 1947.

Well, that’s the Hollywood version of events anyway. In actual fact, both Marilyn Monroe’s father and mother worked at RKO Pictures for Joe Kennedy, father of future President John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General, both of whom would go on to become lovers of Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s.

The early years of Marilyn Monroe have always been murky, with her being abandoned by her father, resulting in her being passed around a dozen different Hollywood foster homes in her childhood.

This is Hollywood drama as is usual with Hollywood superstars. Gladys was with Marilyn until she was eight and until Marilyn’s first molestation by a British actor boarder at the home who played in Daryl Zanuck’s film, “House Of Rothschild”. . Gladys worked both at Consolidated Film and RKO, with Consolidated processing negatives for RKO and the other giant Hollywood studios.

Marilyn would soon be sent to an orphanage after her mother was committed after both of her other children were stolen from her with her son dying in an accident.

At least, this is the Hollywood version of events. My readers will know from my earlier posts that OSS Man George Hodel, Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Robert Mahue, and Director John Huston combed the Hollywood area for young beautiful girls like the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short, to be used in compromise and pregnancy blackmail operations to consolidate power for their business interests in oil, aviation, and entertainment.

And CIA, once formed in 1947, empowered with the House UnAmerican Activites Committee bludgeon in Hollywood, targeted Joseph Kennedy’s RKO Pictures, the maker of such classics as “Citizen Kane”. We will see how Hodel and Mahue targeted not only RKO but also their top star, Orson Welles, by implicating him in her murder in a pregnancy blackmail operation.

In future Substacks in this series, you will see how both Marilyn Monroe’s mother and father were placed inside RKO to take down the studio and their stars through blackmail, probably as a favor to William Randolph Hearst in exchange for favor for the CIA in this Hearst chain of hundreds of newspapers across the US. However, the undermining was accomplished, RKO fell into the hands of Mahue and Hughes in 1948, and Marilyn was soon to become a sexual lure for young Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts, one John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Many pictures exist with Marilyn Monroe’s mother, Gladys, when Marilyn was three to four years old, dispensing with the Hollywood myth that she was swept up by the stork at one week of age.

Far more likely, Gladys was targeted with drugs while working at RKO by her boss, Marilyn’s father, who also made a habit of being a “finder’ for Joseph Kennedy for young, up-and-coming Hollywood starlets.

The myth that Glady gave up Marilyn at birth is clearly a Hollywood concoction, but the fact Marilyn was destined to be a woman used in compromise was a truth soon to be fulfilled.

Notice how the name of the film processing company that became RKO is conveniently left out of the accounts of the event. Truth be told, Joseph Kennedy was flush from East Coast bootleg money and got out of the stock market at exactly the right time to get into Hollywood pictures at exactly the right time since the movie business boomed in the Depression era.

For those who have followed my work, you saw me take you to the Hodel-Mahue house of depravity used to get movie and aviation executives to impregnate young starlets, only to have pregnancy blackmail demands to begin soon after. If the compromised executive paid the ransom, former OSS drug runner to Wuhan, China, Dr. George Hodel would perform the abortions himself.

Hodel ran drugs from China for Chiang Kia-shek into Los Angeles after World War II and helped establish Wuhan, China, as a virus-vaccine testing mecca for the CIA.

Director John Huston was also intimately involved in the scheme, and soon Marilyn Monroe would fall into his hands at MGM in 1950 for the making of “Asphalt Jungle” in her first role.

Huston later made a film with Roman Polanski about father-daughter incest with John Huston that mimicked childhood flashbacks of Marilyn Monroe. Roman Polanski, of course, was married to Sharon Tate, another Kennedy lure who would meet with an early death in her prime as an American sex symbol.

We are at the Substack limit for email here, so we will continue with how these Hollywood starlets were used to secure power and dominance over motion pictures, aviation, and oil in Part 6 of “Echoes of Laurel Canyon”.

Notes

Marilyn Monroe was an FBI Informant from 1955 to her death in 1962.

And RadioPlane was acquired by Northrup Grumman, the maker of the F-18, and the rest is history.

Reginald Denny was also an actor, leading one to the conclusion the Los Angeles was the right place to be before World War II and during the War.

In the next part, we will cover CIA connections to the death of Marilyn Monroe including the Robert Allen Hale connections.

The FBI surveillance girl for JFK before Marilyn Monroe was Inga Arvad, who sat in Hitler’s box during the 1936 Olympics.

Arvad also consorted in the Bahamas with King Edward the VIII with shell corporation there.

In the next Substack installment, we will cover the new head of RKO Studios, Howard Hughes, was revived from near death from his test airplane crash at Beverly Hills country club by the picture of Marilyn Monroe on the cver magazine called Laff.

Hughes told his studio agents to immediately sign Marilyn Monroe. interestingly, the plane that Howard Hughes crashed in, called the XF-11, would be replaced after the murder of John F. Kennedy by the Hales Brothers’ F111 surveillance aircraft.

Marilyn Monroe’s agent allowed the first right of refusal to be at the powerful 20th Century Fox studios. Zanuck saw the Marilyn Monroe screen test out lines being delivered and immediately signed her to a contract.

Daryl Zanuck turned around 20th Century Fox with hit after hit during World War II. a young congressman from Boston Massachusetts named John Fitzgerald. Kennedy also landed in 1946 in Hollywood and he began dating stars like Sonya Henie and Gene Tierney, the role model for Marilyn Monroe. JFK and Monroe would soon meet on the Hollywood party circuit.