$300 MILLION GOLD FOR SVETLANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400200009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 1, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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documentary evidence that Hubie pulled every trick in
the book to evade military service, while pretending to
his friends that he was trying to enlist.
According to the National Press Club grape-
vine, aging columnist Drew Pearson is going
to retire in. six months and turn over his
column and radio-TV 4ccounts to his top
legman, Jack Northam Anderson. .
Pearson's partner in Personal Frpm Pearson news-
letter, David Katz, alias Karr, will inherit that. This
newsletter is a lucrative racket concocted by Katz-Karr
about 15 years ago and nets Pearson and Katz-Karr
$150,000 per year. How victims are.induced to sub-
scribe to this newsletter is a story in itself.
Anderson has long been the heir apparent and has
been lured into working for a small salary for many
years on the promise that some day he would mount the
throne of the King of Smear and the Imperial Lord of
Left-wing propaganda.
Unfortunately for ambitious Jack (often referred to
by his colleagues in the press gallery as "Junior Louse")
Pearson's daughter Ellen inherits half-interest in the
column and the radio-TV contracts. This presents a
real problem for Jack. Old Drew's daughter will per-
form no work and share half the profits; also, Pearson's
daughter s as domineering as her father and grand-
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ward Conservatism. Despite
frantic last minute efforts by Romney forces to win,
Co:.servative Louie B. Nunn won the Republican nomi-
nu.:on for governor.
The last minute efforts consisted of Senator John
Sherman Cooper and Congressman Tim Lee Carter
coming out in the open to denounce Nunn, which was
followed by the reported receipt from New York of
another $100,000 to add to the $250,000 in Romney
money reputedly already here. Cooper's own county,
nevertheless, voted a 1,400 majority for Nunn and Tini
Lee Carter's Congressional District went Nunn by 57
votes. It showed that while Romney dominates Mich-
igan he is not exportable to a key Border State.
In typical liberal fashion, the Romney forces led by
Cook falsely accused Nunn of Racism and of Bigotry.
Cook himself, a convert to Catholicism, raised the
bigotry issue as JFK did in 1960 and attemped to make
capital of it.
The primary showed that Liberal forces in the Re-
publican Party, while definitely on the wane in the
vote field, are willing as usual to win or wreck. Nunn's
margin was cut about 25,00 votes by these all-out ef-
forts against a fellow Republican. Whether these liberal
smears will hurt Nunn's chances in the November
general elections remains to be seen. He had been
regarded as a virtual shoo-in against Henry Ward,
backed by incumbent ADA Governor Edward Breathitt.
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world liberal press played down the significance of her
Back in the early '40's, when Robert S. Allen was defection despite the fact she is the most celebrated
the Pearson's partner, the column had 800 subscribers - Communist defector in the 50-year history of the Soviet
largest syndicated column in America. But Pearson regime in Moscow.. has been on the skids there's just so much market
for garbage -and the column today has only 125 V- CIA Agent-supervisor Robert F. Rayle took charge
dailies and 100 weeklies, though Pearson claims "over of her in New Delhi, escorted her from India to Switzer-
500." Back in the '40's, Pearson reported $350,000 Ind and hid her away from inquiring reporters.
annually on his income tax from legitimate sources. Contrary to popular opinion the U.S. did not detour
(Pearson's income has often been in the form of cash Stalina to Switzerland. It was Stalina who insisted on
payoffs, and he has a wall safe in his home full of going to Switzerland before coming to the U.S. The real
unreported cash income.) reason is that she wanted to pick up $300 million dol-
Inasmuch as Jack Anderson is assuming the role of lars in gold deposited in a Berne bank!
biggest scandal-monger in the Nation, WO believes it At the time of the German siege of Moscow Svetlana's
to be in the public interest to expose the unusual con- father, old "bloody Joe" Stalin, transferred $300 million
ncetions of this unscrupulous publicist who, in his. in gold from the Soviet treasury to a secret numbered
desperation to make a "fast buck," may even exceed account in his own name in a bank in Berne, Switzer-
Pearson some day in unsavory conduct, not to mention land; if he had to flee to the Free World he wanted a
in depredations which may imperil the national security little pocket money. Later, Stalin legally named Svetlana
of the United States. Readers Of WASHINGTON OB- the sole beneficiary of the $300 million in gold that he
SERVER NEWSLETTER may expect to read details about had stolen from the Soviet government and lodged in
Mr. Anderson in subsequent issues. the bank in Berne. In his youth he abandoned study-
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