Thanks for the article. I had not heard of this woman, so I went to Wikipedia for a quick read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer
Holy cow, was this woman connected!!!!
And she left behind a diary. She was tied into the CIA, to Kennedy, to the Washington Post. Her murder was not random.
She was a communist and had quite an effect on Kennedy; her husband was Cord Meyer who was a progressive whoi came into the orbit of the CIA after he supposedly realized the infiltration of the UN by communists. Even Joe McCarthy accused him of being a communist, but by then, he was an asset of the CIA.
Her real life must have been the basis of the movie “An Aerican Affair” with Gretchen Mol in 2009. The similariities are more than coincidence.
Fascinating read. The people named in her life are all big names of the fifties,sixties, and beyond.
Wonder what became of the diary? Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post would have known.
The book was titled "A Very Private Woman" or something along those lines (I don't have the book any longer). I do remember that it seemed that there was more concern for making sure not too much about her life became known than there was for finding out who actually killed her.