OS - ROBERT S. ALLEN; PAUL SCOTT, NEWS COLUMN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06667934
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2018
• Case Number: F-2013-01125
• Publication Date: November 6, 1961

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6 November 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Research Staff
SUBJECT:
Robert S. Allen
Paul Scott _
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1. Colonel Grogan advised that Robert Allen at the present
time is occupied on some other business and it appears that Paul
Scott is doing the news column. This is in specific reference to
the one that was picked up in a number of newspapers on 25
October 1961 entitled "A Block-Busting Scandal in the Making
(CIA)". The source of this information is John McCormack,
House of Representatives member from Massachusetts.
2. The National Review is reported to have picked up
the Scott-Allen column and ran an item on that.
3. About the same date. 25 October there was a news
item in one of the Robert Allen-Paul Scott columns concerning the
estimate on which military aid was made available to Yugoslavia.
particularly, the sending of planes to Yugoslavia. It was stated that
Bill Bundy had authored the estimate on which this proposal was
based. This matter was checked and it was found that Bundy did
not author this estimate, although, he was present at times when
the estimate was discussed.
R. L. Bannerman
Acting Director of Security
Distribution:
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1- OS File (Paul Scott)
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