WaPo asks: Why did CIA wiretap a reporter in the 1960s? Answer: Because of his JFK reporting
Jefferson Morley
March 6, 2013
The Washington Post‘s Ian Shapira had a fascinating piece over the weekend about a son pursuing his father’s journalistic legacy.
Jim Scott, 64, a retired Navy public relations officer who lives in Maryland, wants to know why the CIA wiretapped his father, Paul Scott, a syndicated columnist and investigative reporter in Washington in the 1960s. Scott was half of “The Allen-Scott Report,” a popular syndicated column that ran in some 300 papers nationwide.
One reason why Scott was bugged by the CIA: his JFK reporting.
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