Nice job Fred. Peter Whitmey was a nice guy and a good researcher who I corresponded with back in the day. Anyone know if he is still alive?
Sorry for posting such a lengthy reply, but there was something about Peter's earnestness and determination in pursuing the facts related to Priscilla Johnson's relationships with "Marina & Lee" that motivated me to put the effort I did into extending Peter's inquiry.
Peter "weighed in" about a tragic family incident two years ago. He's 76 sometime in this year, 2021.:
http://www.jfk-info.com/whitmey6.htmI hope he is well, too.
Still younger than Lifton, who "manhandled" Peter...
https://alt.assassination.jfk.narkive.com/kNoSc5pn/david-lifton-books...in reaction to Peter's research about Priscilla and his description of his attempt to question her.
Lifton's unjustified abuse of Peter inspired me to pursue and uncover the following...
http://jfkforum.com/2017/10/01/are-we-there-yet-part-ii/
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Priscilla Johnson fully inserted herself into Marina’s life by late July, 1964, as Katya and Declan Ford did the hand off to Priscilla. Priscilla’s CIA handler was Garrison Garry Coit. Coit and Thomas Devine and 15 other Sigma Chi frat brothers cohabited in their frat house on MIT campus from fall, 1944. Coit went to Naval radio school in late Sept., Devine followed two weeks later.
Devine had nine contacts with DeMohrenschildt from late April, 1963 through late May. Devine and his close friend Joseph F Dryer, Jr. met separately with DeMohrenschildt and Clemard Charles on 25 April, 1963.
In late Sept., 1964, Priscilla put herself and Marina under the domicile and hospitality of her first cousin David C. Davenport, later described by Sam Ballen as a former CIA man. Davenport’s obit refers to his intelligence work.
In December, 1964, news and FBI reports describe Marina and Priscilla residing in a Sedona, AZ apartment, transported and escorted by Jerome Hastings, close friend of Davenport, driving Davenport’s Corvair with Alaska plates. In July, 1965, Davenport and Hastings are sued in New Mexico by Hasting’s step-daughter, JoAnn McAdams,
first cousin of presidential assistant Clark Clifford. The suit describes Hastings as then second husband of Clifford’s aunt, Marguerite Bowman McAdams Hasty. In 1966, Jerome Hasty legally changed his name in New Mexico to Hastings.
At this link, I have documented that in 1978 HSCA counsel asked Priscilla Johnson Macmillan why her book, “Marina and Lee” was delayed at least a dozen years. See:
https://archive.is/esTuB
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https://archive.is/o/esTuB/www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=95330&relPageId=42
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In addition to the "coincidences" above, there is this additional Tom Devine link beyond his ties from at least his teens to William B Macomber,
Garry Coit, and Joseph Dryer and later, Dryer and Devine to DeMohrenschildt.
Tom Devine from grades K-8 was a member of a class of 20 boys in a K-12 private Rochester, NY school administered by a board chaired by Devine's father, Adrian.
After grade 8 and in the case of Dryer's brother, Peter, Devine's class was reduced to just ten as the other ten transferred to Ivy League, "feeder schools" like St. Paul's in the case of Devine's classmate, Hawley Ward, one of several of the ten to transfer to St. Paul's, and the Dryer brothers, who transferred to Choate.
Devine's friend and former classmate Hawley Ward became friends at St. Paul's with Priscilla's very patient book editor, Marion S. Wyeth.
http://jfkforum.com/2017/10/01/are-we-there-yet/....
After Joan Mellen interviewed Joseph Dryer for her book about DeMohrenschildt, "Our Man in Haiti", I discovered this and sent her an email.
I located an unredacted version of the above by using "nattily" as a search term at maryferrell archive.:
Wubriny-1 or Briny-1 was Tom Devine, Briny-2 was his investment firm partner, John Train.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=64083#relPageId=2&search=nattily
Joan's reply :
