User:Pemilligan/sandbox/Paul Scott (journalist)
Paul Scott | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1920 or 1921 |
| Died | 2001 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Jane Cobis (remarried) |
Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency) (specifically, Operation Mockingbird)
Robert S. Allen. The men once wrote a syndicated column, the "Allen-Scott Report". Between March 12, 1963, and June 15, 1963, phone bugs were installed at the Allen and Scott homes and their Capitol Hill office.
Allen was a CIA wiretap subject, according to documents released by the agency in 2007. Associated Press reported:
"Under pressure from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy" in 1962, CIA director John McCone "agreed to tap the telephones of columnists Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott in an effort to identify their sources for classified information which was appearing in their columns," says a memo[2] a decade later to the agency's director."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Shapira, Ian (March 2, 2013). "Long-ago wiretap inspires a battle with the CIA for more information". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ "Family Jewels" (PDF). CIA. June 26, 2007.
- ^ "Some examples of CIA Misconduct". USA Today. Associated Press. June 27, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
Category:2001 deaths | Category:Journalists from Maryland | Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers