User:Pemilligan/sandbox/Paul Scott (journalist)

Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency) (specifically, Operation Mockingbird)

Northern Virginia Sun

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 a decade later to the agency's director.'"