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WaPo asks: Why did CIA wiretap a reporter in the 1960s? Answer: Because of his JFK reporting

WaPo asks: Why did CIA wiretap a reporter in the 1960s? Answer: Because of his JFK reporting

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Jefferson Morley
Mar 06, 2013
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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…

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