Parts of the 105 file on Marilyn were marked “SM-C” for “Security Matter – Communist.” They were withheld under category B1, used to cover foreign affairs matters and national security. Some documents released to me, on first publication of my book, were entirely blacked out by the censor’s pen – except for their subject headings. More recently, they have been released with only minor deletions.
The possibility of nuclear war—and extreme tension over Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the Soviet Union—was the dominating issue in 1962. In late June and early July—when, according to the F.B.I. report, one of the Kennedy brothers discussed nuclear matters with Marilyn—Castro was expecting a U.S. invasion and was making urgent appeals to Moscow for help. In early July, U.S.S.R. Premier Nikita Khrushchev made the fateful decision to ship ballistic missiles to Cuba.
On a July evening in 1961, the year before the death of Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, “boss of bosses” of the Chicago Mafia, master of an organized crime network reaching across huge swathes of the United States, had walked into an airport waiting room to be confronted by a team of F.B.I. agents. The pressure from the Kennedy Justice Department was by now constant, and he lost his temper.
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