Echoes Of Laurel Canyon - Part Seven

Russia, Russia Is Born - Sheep Dipping Marilyn Monroe

May 04, 2024

📜 Article Summary

This installment of the Operation Hollywood series reveals how Marilyn Monroe was deliberately “sheep-dipped” as a Communist agent by the CIA and FBI in order to justify the wiretapping of John and Robert Kennedy.

Monroe’s staged meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and her involvement in national security-themed conversations with RFK were used to entrap and surveil the Kennedy brothers under the guise of Communist infiltration.

The article details how IB Hale and his son Robert Allen Hale ran surveillance, blackmail, and possible assassination operations in relation to defense contracts like the F-111.

In parallel, Monroe was surrounded by handlers like Dr. Ralph Greenson and Dr. Hyman Engelberg, whose treatments may have contributed to her death, similar to other CIA-linked sexual “lures” like Judith Exner and Mary Pinchot Meyer, who were also surveilled or eliminated to cover up blackmail plots.

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Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood actress used by the CIA and FBI as a sexual “lure” to entrap the Kennedys under the pretense of Communist ties. Her staged meeting with Khrushchev and knowledge of atomic topics provided justification for national security surveillance. Monroe’s relationships with JFK, RFK, Arthur Miller, and others placed her at the center of Cold War intelligence games. Her home was filled with hidden CIA surveillance equipment, and her final years were controlled by intelligence-linked doctors.

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

President Kennedy was heavily surveilled under the premise of being compromised by Monroe and other women labeled as security risks. His known interest in Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love was used to paint him as a Russophile. He was targeted by both the FBI and CIA, and Monroe was used to gather intelligence or manufacture blackmail. His 11-year relationship with Monroe is said to have been a consistent source of CIA surveillance.

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK)

Attorney General and JFK’s brother, RFK was also entangled in Monroe's life and national security allegations. He was set up at the Lawford home during Monroe’s final night to potentially frame him for her death. RFK's efforts to prosecute mobsters like Sam Giancana led to retaliation through blackmail setups involving Exner and Monroe. His legal case materials were temporarily “lost” under suspicious circumstances involving CIA assets like Robert Allen Hale.

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader who met Monroe in a contrived Fox Studios photo op designed by U.S. intelligence. Though he found her attractive and she found him unpleasant, their meeting was spun as evidence of Monroe’s Communist sympathies. This meeting gave the CIA pretext to intensify surveillance. Khrushchev played an unknowing part in an American domestic intelligence operation.

Judith Exner

Mistress to both JFK and mob boss Sam Giancana, she was developed as a “lure” by Robert Allen Hale to gather intelligence on RFK and blackmail JFK for defense procurement leverage. Her calls were wiretapped by the FBI, and she became central to allegations of Kennedy mob entanglements. She illustrates the overlap between organized crime and CIA sexual blackmail operations. Her role in defense contract corruption remains underexplored in mainstream history.

IB (Insall Bailey) Hale

Ex-FBI agent turned CIA contractor, IB Hale was allegedly behind surveillance and blackmail plots against the Kennedys to protect military contracts like the F-111. He worked closely with his sons and operated in Texas for General Dynamics and Convair. He represents the fusion of state intelligence, aerospace industry, and organized crime. Hale’s role is key to tying political assassinations to military-industrial profits.

Robert Allen Hale

Son of IB Hale, Hale was an on-the-ground operative running sexual compromise and surveillance operations, including wiretapping and possibly murder. He is suspected of following and intimidating witnesses, like a Canadian man named Geisbrecht. Hale is tied to CIA efforts to recover or manipulate evidence (e.g., RFK's briefcase) and was connected to Judith Exner’s setup. He is the suspected killer of Mary Pinchot Meyer.

Geisbrecht

Canadian witness who overheard conversations about the JFK and MLK assassinations and later believed he was being followed. He produced a sketch of the man, possibly Robert Allen Hale. His case suggests CIA operations extended internationally to suppress witnesses. Geisbrecht represents the fate of bystanders caught in the intelligence crossfire.

Seymour Hersh

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote The Dark Side of Camelot, exposing covert sexual liaisons and corruption during JFK's presidency. He discussed the F-111 contract cancellation and the resulting motive for military-industrial retribution. Hersh provides mainstream corroboration of Webb’s deeper investigative claims. His work serves as a bridge between accepted history and covert intelligence narratives.

J. Edgar Hoover

FBI Director who wiretapped Monroe, Exner, and the Kennedys but reportedly ignored blackmail activities tied to the Hales. He logged 70 calls between JFK and Exner in March 1962 but withheld information on deeper CIA operations. Hoover used surveillance more for leverage than justice. His FBI “crime board” of Kennedy women illustrates the bureau’s obsession with sexual compromise.

Jose Bolanos

Monroe’s Latin lover met during a 1962 Mexico City trip, connected to CIA operative E. Howard Hunt. His proximity to Monroe placed him in the same intelligence web as other sexual lures. He contributed to the “spaghetti tangle” of Monroe’s monitored relationships. His role shows how Monroe was constantly surrounded by intelligence assets.

Sam Giancana

Chicago mob boss targeted by RFK and involved with Monroe and Exner. Giancana sought retribution through blackmail, violence, and sexual lures orchestrated via Sinatra and the Rat Pack. His conflict with RFK escalated the intelligence-mob collaboration. Giancana's Palm Springs winter estate was a base for these operations.

Frank Sinatra

Close friend of Monroe and Giancana, Sinatra hosted CIA-monitored trysts at his estate. He facilitated the Monroe-Kennedy connection and may have unknowingly abetted blackmail setups. His celebrity shielded covert operations. Sinatra was both a star and a tool of intelligence theatrics.

Arthur Miller

Monroe’s husband and playwright, Miller was considered a leftist and was under FBI surveillance. His relationship with Monroe intensified scrutiny on her and fed the Communist label used to justify wiretaps. He stood as a cultural symbol of anti-McCarthyism, ironically dragged into its net. His inclusion reflects how artists were swept into geopolitical schemes.

Joe DiMaggio

Monroe’s ex-husband and baseball legend, DiMaggio remained close to her until her death. Though not directly implicated, his communications with Monroe were likely monitored. He adds a uniquely American cultural layer to the surveillance network. Even sporting legends weren’t exempt from Cold War intelligence overreach.

Dr. Ralph Greenson

Monroe’s psychiatrist, accused of being a CIA collaborator who controlled her final years and prescribed dangerous drug regimens. He installed a housekeeper-spy and conducted unorthodox treatments at home. His circle overlapped with former HUAC targets. Greenson represents the medical arm of psychological operations.

Dr. Hyman Engelberg

Monroe’s physician, also under suspicion due to Communist-linked associations and heavy prescription patterns. He worked in tandem with Greenson, creating a toxic pharmacological routine. He was part of the monitored intellectual-medical community in Hollywood. Engelberg was another node in Monroe’s controlled descent.

Mary Pinchot Meyer

Ex-wife of CIA Deputy Director Cord Meyer and LSD “sex therapy” partner of JFK. She was murdered in 1964 shortly after JFK’s death; her diary was stolen by CIA's James Angleton. Meyer was allegedly part of an effort to compromise JFK using psychedelic-fueled sexual experiences. Her death exemplifies the fate of CIA sexual lures.

Cord Meyer

Deputy Director of CIA and ex-husband of Mary Pinchot Meyer. He was aligned with Frank Wisner’s CIA psychological ops team, dubbed “Wisner’s Weirdos” by Hoover. Cord Meyer represents the institutional intelligence pipeline that facilitated domestic compromise operations. His silence after his ex-wife’s murder suggests complicity or coercion.

James Angleton

CIA counterintelligence chief who broke into Mary Pinchot Meyer’s house to retrieve her diary after her assassination. He handled internal cover-ups for CIA dirty operations. Angleton is portrayed as the shadow archivist of CIA sex lures and surveillance. His presence marks high-level agency involvement in domestic crimes.

Dr. Timothy Leary

Psychedelic researcher and CIA asset who introduced LSD to figures like Mary Pinchot Meyer. He coached women in LSD sex as a means of political compromise. Leary helped seed the Laurel Canyon counterculture as a CIA soft power experiment. His work blended scientific exploration with psychological subversion.

🏛️ Organizations

CIA

Used Monroe, Exner, Meyer, and others as sexual lures to gather blackmail on the Kennedys. Directed assassinations, psychological control via drugs, and false Communist narratives. Supported by Cord Meyer, Frank Wisner, and operatives like Angleton and Hale. Central to Operation Hollywood’s thesis of intelligence domination of political and cultural life.

FBI

Ran parallel wiretaps and public smears, especially under Hoover. Collaborated with CIA in targeting JFK, RFK, Monroe, and leftist artists. Preferred surveillance and leverage over direct intervention. Hoover’s crime board strategy shows a pattern of weaponizing sexual relationships.

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

Originally targeted Hollywood writers and doctors, many of whom later treated or surrounded Monroe. Laid the foundation for later FBI surveillance. HUAC’s legacy fed into Hoover and Dulles’s efforts to smear targets as Communists. Their targets became psychological pawns in the Kennedy smear machine.

Fox Studios

Host location for Monroe’s meeting with Khrushchev. Staged by intelligence to create photo ops justifying Communist suspicion. The event was part of Monroe’s sheep-dipping strategy. Fox's role underscores the cooperation between Hollywood and U.S. intelligence.

Nikita Khrushchev’s name for Marilyn Monroe was “Comrade Monroe” from the only time they met in the United States in 1959. Krushchev was trotted through Hollywood in both 1957 to meet Shirley MacLaine and again in 1959 to meet Marilyn Monroe.

The Hollywood photoshoot arrangement meeting between her and the Russian leader was part of a contrived effort by both the CIA and the FBI to disguise Marilyn Monroe as a Russian spy.

That “national security risk” would allow both CIA and FBI to wiretap both Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. Marilyn Monroe was even given notecards with questions about atomic policy for Bobby Kennedy and John F Kennedy, including a notebook to write the answers in.

Marilyn Monroe showed up for the publicity shots with the Russian leader at Fox Studios at the appointed time. Monroe thought Kruschchev was fat and ugly with warts, and he thought she was very lovely.

That not the stuff of spy novels, but that did not stop the CIA from sheep dipping Marilyn Monroe as a Communist in order to initiate wire tapping on President John F. Kennedy.

The FBI not only wiretapped the Marilyn JFK calls, but also the calls of Judith Exner, the lire developed by Robert Allen Hale and his brother.

https://people.com/politics/who-is-jfk-mistress-judith-exner

Exner’s connections with Sam Giancana were supposed help spy on what Robert Kennedy was doing with his crackdown on the mob and to help blackmail John F. Kennedy for certain mega purchases for defense contracts in Dallas and Ft Worth.

Clearly, a former FBI Agent turned CIA operative, IB Hale, was using his boys to gather blackmail on the Kennedys for the F-111 fighter contract. One of IB Hale boys was Robert Allen Hale, and he may have been involved in murders of the witnesses of the JFK assassination.

A man named Geisbrecht in Canada, who witnessed men talking about Oswald, the Kennedy assassination,, and Martin Luther King assassination.

Geisbrecht had a sketch made of the man who was following him for a few days, potentially Robert Allen Hale. The Hills had a lot of business opportunities on the line with the F111 fighter and the Atlas rocket for ICBMs at Convair and later General Atomics.

JFK actually cancelled this contract on the date of his death, and it was reinstated by President Johnson shortly thereafter.

Fames Pulitzer Prize winning joirnalist Seymour Hersch writes about this in his book, “Dark Side of Camelot”.

J Edgar Hoover seemed to look the other way where the CIA and the Hale father and brothers were involved and he seem far more concerned with JFK‘s phone calls with Judith Exner.

J Edgar Hoover however, did present seventy (70) phone calls between JFK and Exner in March of 1962, but Hoover did not mention blackmailing by the Hales on the TFX contract to Kennedy.

One can imagine what the Crime Board at the FBI must have looked like with just the women from 1962 on bulletin board. When you include the romantic trysts that Robert F Kennedy had with Marilyn Monroe, things really get complicated.

Now throw in Marilyn’s Latin Lover Jose Bolanos from her Mexico City visit in early 1962 with has direct connects to E Howard Hunt of the CIA, and the FBI Crime Board starts look like a plate of spaghetti.

Now add the complication that Marilyn is also dating Frank Sinatra whose friend Sam Giancana is trying to kill both Kennedys because of Bobby Kennedy’s mob corruption investigations.

Now add the most famous leftist playwright in the world, Arthur Miller, who is also under FBI surveillance.

The only thing the mass FBI surveillance story doesn’t have is an All-America center fielder. Oh wait, it does. The most famous center fielder of all time,

Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees, and all of these characters are frequently communicating with Marilyn Monroe in 1962, the last year of her life.

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Marilyn Monroe’s house was secretly bugged for all the comings and goings of her psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, her doctor, Hyman Engelberg, and of course, the Kennedy brothers.

Sophisticated surveillance equipment was found everywhere in the Marilyn Monroe home during a home renovation in 1972 for instance. it seemed that the CIA was doing everything they could with Dr. Greenson and Dr. Engelberg to compromise JFK and later RFK with a series of sexual LSD lures. Marilyn Monroe may just have been the first with Judith Exner and then Mary Pinchot Meyer to follow..

Mary Pinchot Meyer - shot in the head and the back on October 12th, 1964, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal road after an affair with Jack Kennedy. James Angleton of the CIA obtained her diary after her murder in a break-in of her home.

But first the CIA had to try to cast the Kennedys as communists, and that was the reason for sheep, dipping Marilyn Monroe as a communist.

Kennedy was even painted as a Russophile because he liked a James Bond novel written by ex-MI6 Agent, Ian Fleming, called “From Russia With Love”.

The cover of the book questionably is supposed to have inspired the band name “Guns And Roses”. Whether that is true or not, you can see the mental gymnastics of the FBI and CIA here trying to paint the Kennedys as soft on Communism.

In addition to famous people under FBI surveillance, Marilyn Monroe was also connected to a relatively unknown group of Hollywood writers and doctors who were also key targets of the House UnAmerican activities committee (HUAC) surveillance.

These same HUAC targets then later became surveillance targets of J Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Marilyn Monroe’s personal physician, Dr Hyman Engelberg, was just one example.

Dr. Ralph Greenson also circulated in the same Friday and communist, discussion and reading groups as Dr. Engelberg, directly associating with people who had come under the scrutiny of of the House UnAmerican activities committee a decade before.

Dr. Ralph Greenson was in complete control of Marilyn Monroe’s life along with a housekeeper spy that he planted in the Monroe household in addition to working closely with Dr. Hyman M Engelberg for prescribing her barbiturates.

Almost all sources acknowledge that Greenson controlled Marilyn Monroe‘s last two years before her suicide with a very unorthodox treatment tegimen where he hosted the treatments in his home.

In the last months of her life, Dr. Greenson was giving Marilyn Monroe daily injections of both amphetamines and barbiturates. this regiment seems insane in retrospect, almost assuredly leading to her suicide or accidental death.

There is some evidence to suggest the CIA was trying to get the sexual lures of John F Kennedy to interest him in LSD sex.

The ex-wife of CIA deputy Director Cord Meyer was used as an LSD sex lure to John F. Kennedy. cord Meyer was one of a group of people working for Frank Wisner at the CIA that J Edgar Hoover called Wisner’s weirdos.

Cord Meyer’s ex-wife, Mary Pinchot Meyer, also died young after an affair with John F. Kennedy, where she enticed him with LSD sex. The CIA flew in no less than Dr. Timothy Leary to do the LSD sex coaching.

The murder of Mary Pincho Meyer is still one of Washington DC’s unsolved mysteries, but when viewed in light of her role as a lure for LSD sex for JFK, the murder almost seems par for the course.

Was the CIA trying to compromise John F. Kennedy with all these different women’s offering LSD psychedelic sex? well that certainly seems to be the case with Cord Myers’s, ex-wife Mary Pinchot Meyer, and perhaps with an heir of the Dupont fortune as well.

Here is more background with a timeline of Monroe‘s love interests. This is a general timeline with a great deal of overlap between the lovers and of course Bobby Kennedy is omitted completely.

https://www.glamour.com/story/marilyn-monroe-love-life

This article misses out on Robert Kennedy and his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and also dramatically understates the 11 year relationship of John F. Kennedy. But I wanted to show some of the corroborating articles.