A HIDDEN LIBERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

CPYRGHT MAR 3 ~ 1?57
e~ct?~or-Release 1999/0
? ~ dd'e~c ~~ ~ e~-a~
? Cord 1"/leyer Jr.
Cisco, where he was an aide .i them said. "I'm not sure he
j Ito Harold E. Stassen at the really listens," said another.
= founding of the United Na- ? ~ Others use the words "in-
An a~itobioUraphicai short I tnentative," "bellicose; "'Tcu-
story-"Waves of Darkness" 'tonic."
-won for him the O. Henry 1 "It ]s very difficult for him
-In Washington social `' .t ~~'''~
iflrst-published story. An ar- ~ necessarily the duty of the
and intellectual circles, Cord ~' ~ ,~qt~ ~
` title, "A Serviceman Laoks ,; ~citizcn to support the C.LA.,"
y ~~ k
".;eyer Jr. has been well ; ? ~ ~
at the Pea.ce," was included a . one friend said. "He feels the
known for many years. To x: ~ +t ~ ~
in an anthology,- "Essays for ~ nation must support the
tho liberals of this college r` # ;~t ~'
Our Time." - C.LA:'
generation, his name means ~ ~
He became deeply concerned I He was particularly irate.
nothing. ~, r ' ~I
lvtth the fragility of the peace ! 'over the disclosures of the
These young people might ?
and the SCCII)ltlg inevitability subsidies to private organiza-
be impressed to know that # ~~
k : ~`
oP world-consuming nuclear tins. Yet he himself advo-
20 years ago he ~ 3~,: ~'~?~ t ~^.,~ r #.
tvarfare unless the United '. Gated some time ago that the
Man 1 founded and head ~? ~ ~? ,? ,t s
Nations was given the power'. agency begin to disengage it-
ed the United s t }y z 7`
to impose disarmament by its. .self from some of these con-
News j World Federalists g' ?~" x s
own forces, nections.
~.
to "achieve peace ~: ,~ ~ ~ r
In 1947, while on a junior ~ I ` His recommendation, how-
? through a world ~' "? +~
fellowship at Harvard, he put ever, was not based on any
federation. But if the knew ? ~ ;
his .plan and timetable for recognition of the obsoles-.
what he had been doin for y 1 ~ Y` u r` ?
avoiding Armageddon in a? I.: cence of the subsidy program
the last 16 years, they might x~)t~ ~ ~, ~~
boolt, 'Peace or Anarchy," '' in a chancing climate, but
also assign him a high place ~~ ,,
S W o '
Which sold more than 50,000 ~ ~, upon the likelihood that it
ut their current demonology "`" s~ ~~ '~~ y ~ J s ~ '
copies, Meanwhile, he became was about "to blow."
a member of the national ~' Mr. Meyer's personal life.
During those years, ' Mr ~ ~ r~~ ~--?
planning board oP the Ameri- ;has 'been shadowed with
14feyer has been submerged ' ~ '~
can Veterans Committee and j .tragedy, His twin brother
in the anonymity oY the Cen ~ ~ ' ~ , ~ 1
founder and president of the ' .Quentin was killed on Okina-
teal Intelligence Agency. His ~: w ti ~ ~'
United Vdorld Federalists. wa.' The second of his three
name has surfaced again be- ~ ~: w-:
Then, in 1951, he joined ttt6 ~ : sons tvas struck. by a car
' cause he has been the r ~ ~ '?
C.I.A. ~.? and killed in 195D, and short-
I "spook" in charge of covertly `""^"`w'" ~~x -
"It was a great surprise to ; 1y afterward he and his wife.
subsidizing the overseas ac- Assoclatea ]>ress, ts~e
his friends," said one of them ~ were divorced.
tivities of the National Stu- "Schooled and skilled in'
the other day. "He was not In 1964, Mary_ Pinchot
dent Association and other the art of indirec>`ion." }
the G~.LA. type. Ile was a h4feycr was shot and killed byl
youth groups, labor and pro~~
world government man:' ,fan unknown assailant as?
fessional 'organizations and; istic end liberal understand- '
Why did he do it? Probably she walked .along the` tow-
charitable institutions. ' ing of the pluralism of emerg=
only Mr. Meyer knows, and f path of the olci? C.hes,;pealc?.
At age 47, Mr. Meyer seems; ing countries. Mr. Meyer and i
h I and Ohio canal i G orR~:-
' no Iess dedicated to the C.LA.; many high officials in the a does not discuss it, even n c r
than tP world federalism, Buti C.LA. are cases iri point. ~ with friends. One who knowstown. ?The murder has never'
the contrast. puzzles even; Cord and his twin brother " him well speculated that he I been so~vcd..
some of his friends, I Quentin were bdrn Nov. 10, w~ deeply affected by the I ~ Mr. Meyer is now married t .
" 1920 in Washin ton where :` battle he waged against Qom- to the founer Starl.cy Ander-
CP as one of the most ~ g ~;, munist infiltrators of the vet-, ~ bon , ~ , . ,
~~ .his father, Cord Meyer, a ~ ~ ,~;? ??~ ;` ;., ~.
sa recen y. cry sensi- ; velo r turned di Iomat, was board. Another former asso-
tive, very intelligent. His ~ ~ p date said: "He was always ~- //~ ~' ~-
whole spirit was one of great ~ Uetween overseas assignments. ver a ocal tic
humanity. He got cold war- His mother was the former Y p ~ Yp ,sort oY Dos- '
ized." ,Katharine Blair Thaw. His toievskian.
' grandfather, also named Cord, On two things there is ~ ,
Pattel'e Iteconunendations :who had .developed large sec-? ' agreement. First, that he was
The uproar, particularly im' 4ions ?of Long Island, nad personally recruited by Allen ;
FOIAb3b
the press and the academic once `served as Democratic F ~V? DulIes, former C.LA. di- ~ .
community, set off by the, chairman. rector,. and second, that Mr. ~
recent disclosure of C.LA. The twins' went to St. Paul's I?u11es stood stanchly by his I -
subsidies to private orgahiza-, preparatory school- and then P decision when the l to Sena- I
tion, led President Johnson to: to Yale, where Cord was a ator Joseph R? ~cCarthy I
appoint a committee to stud 'big man on canzpus-?;oaiie ~` attac]ced .him for hiring a
fire matter, the committee : on the hockey team, member - "world federalist:'
headed by. Under~Secretary'I of the best clubs, a briilia.nt To those who know Mr.
of State Nicholas dcB.: student (Phi Eeta I{appa :~:~id M~Yer only professionally, he
Katzenbach, recommended to- summa cum laude in En;rii:it. gives the impression of being
day the creation of a "public- literature). The wartime caass _ almost the caricature of:
of 1943 was raduated in the a C.LA. agent.
private mechanism to provide fall of 1942, and Cord idu- "He -is totally gray," said
.public funds openly for over- ~ g`` one,. official, " ra? h
seas activities" of private ; ated ahead of the class. Twq suit, Yea look, and he ~ves ~
organizations, ,weeks later, he enlisted in file n
Marines. you. tYte gray answer. He is
The President has accepted From the Paciftc he wrote ` schooled and' skilled in thG ?
~, this recommendation. If Con- ~a series of intensely moving ~ art oP indirection,"
gross underwrites it, ~ Mr..war letters that lucre pub-' But to friends who see him
';vIeyer will have to turn his !fished inThcAtlanticMontRly ~ 'socially, he presents quite?~ ? ?
talents to other work in the'In June, 1944, .the war came ,,` another aspect-a gracious .
intelligence community, for . to an end for him on Guam, `host who slips out of his gray
presumably his job will be :.when a Japanese grenade ex-, suit into a red-lined blue. '
abolished. ploded in front of him and blazer, talks avidly about'
In the late 1940's and early destroyed an eye. niodcrn art, listens to record-
- ' 1950's many liberals who ~ - - i;; ~s of poetry for hours on
wished to serve their country ; Aide to Stassen ,~nd and plays a combative
found in the C.LA, not only! In April, 1J45,? he marri~?d ;;a.me of tennis. He is also: ?
a personal haven, safe from ~ Mary Eno Pinchot, dauE;htet? ! `:.ui ardeni trout fisherman...
rite onslaughts of McCarthy- ~ of Amos Pinchot, lawyer ur.ri But his Friends also say he , -
ism, but also an opportunity'publicist,-and niece of foster . cr+n be extre_nciY trying. "He
to bring to bear on the probes Gov. l3ifford Pinchot oi' Pa, at- .:; . an unrelenting. advocate.
lems of the cold.war a real-l sylvunia,-,~ the.:;~,conseryation- '
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