Episode 73: John Paisley: CIA Spy, His Lover & Her Box of Secrets. Part IV

Parental Warning: This episode contains descriptions of some sexual activity.

In this episode, we begin telling the life story of Betty Meyers who was John Paisley’s lover at the time of his disappearance. Betty kept Dream Journals, Diaries, and also wrote an Auto Biography; all of which are now in Sally’s possession.

To say the least, Betty was a very introspective person with hundreds of pages  detailing her thoughts and emotions.

If that isn’t enough,  we also discuss Paisley’s participation in the Wash. D.C. sex party scene.

Betty Myers 40 Page Autobiograhpy
Blanchard Oklahoma, the town Betty Jeanne Ratliff was born in,
May 17th, 1927.
Rush River Lodge – Near Washington Virginia. John Paisley and Donald Burton used the isolated Virginia location to host highly controversial, clandestine swingers and “sex parties” throughout the 1970s. These parties were heavily frequented by prominent Washington politicians, journalists, and foreign intelligence figures (including Czech spy Hana Koecher, see below), later fueling widespread theories of political blackmail and espionage prior to Paisley’s mysterious disappearance and death in 1978.

Hana & Karl Koecher

Judith Duerk (1938-2021) – Worked with women for 35 years as a psychotherapist and music therapist and has facilitated more than 1,000 retreats across the USA and Canada. She has also led several ongoing women’s groups since the late 1970s; the longest one met continuously for more than 20 years and still occasionally gets together. A resident of Kensington, Maryland for almost 50 years.

Judith in her later years. In 1989, (during the same time she was counseling Betty) Judith wrote her first book, Circle of Stones: Woman’s Journey to Herself. She followed this work with several other books and began to focus on leading women’s workshops and retreats across the country.

The following link is the episode “We Write To Be Know” with the artist Marlena Wyman who creates incredible paintings using the words of prairie women who have gone before us…

https://www.sallysdiaries.com/podcast/episode/7ddec9ad/47-we-write-to-be-known

And so it begins……….

To hear this episode:

https://www.sallysdiaries.com/podcast/episode/78c7d1b5/73-john-paisley-cia-spy-his-lover-and-her-box-of-secrets-part-4

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