POVERTY WAR'S USE OF NEWSMEN AS CONSULTANTS DESCRIBED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200910003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 14, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Ward Jus ; .:South.. At the time, the Sun
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Wanhington Pon Stoff WrItOr , was closed by a strike. The re-
The complaiht and
,. .?1 porters, who quit the 0E0
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after their paper restimed Washington. "We . would 'get
pliance bureau of the Povertyl
pblishing were paid by the
u, a complaint and ask the guy;
program was run "just like the)
1) the day, at a rate equal to 'Could you go out to. carbon.'
night desk on an .afternoon,bY dale or wherever and see'
:newspaper, " William ' F. Had jtheir newspaper salaries, what's going op.' He. would go
? dad, former inspector general
ied would give details on their
None of the reporters quer- out there and report."
of the.Office of Economic Op-.
p . .
from .
? Ilathiad, himself a former
g assignments
,portunity asserted ? yesterday.,prize-winning reporter for the
0E0
the . . ,
' N ; New York Post, said' that news-
Newsmen, he. said "were the:
1 Woody
In an interview, W
;best sources'.: of informationKlein told The Washington
: men were admirably suited to
We had." ? ., ? '. ?Post he prepared two reports, ferreting out sorruption...eon-
C ? On Monday, Rep.' John Bell? --- - _ , _ . __. rtrovcrsy or confusion in pov-
or DirectorSargent,.f?
. Williams (D-Miz..3.) criticized
:. Shriver on. Haryou-Act aru ? .'" .projects. There . were
knewspapermen moonlighting
on the 0E0 payroll. "Can they Mobilization for Youth, tw "hundre4 of cases, literally
ido an honest job of reporting controversial p o v e r t y pro hundreds,'' he said, where the
discovered a
:While receiving a Government grams. in Harlem. "1 consid inspection .office '
:salary?" Williams asked. . ered it a.professional service,' problem , before - it became a
.. Williams cited three writers Klein said. "I:didn't conside headline...,,
lin the Washington Daily News; myself under ,,the . thumb' o 'Alinost more surprising than
.; newspapermen who were
;each of whom earned more. anybody.''' ? paid for reporting to poverty
;that $3000 from March to July Klein .said that his.. editor
?? ,.headquarters. were those who
la this 'year as consultants Richard D. peters, knew of the unpaid. Haddad said .the
:with the 0E0. The three men arrangement and approved; ,Arcre
first thing"..insnectors.would
fare George Clifford, Don Mac: the time_Klein was .pienarin,..,
on ,arriving in a town wasi ?
lean and Tom Kelly. '. Kelly; the reports for Shrivel., he was1
ato6.talk to local newspapermen:,
. ?now works at the poverty also reporting .
i )orting on civil rights,.?
? regency fulltime. housing, and social weliarelAfter awhile, reporters re-'
LFrom other sources, it was. for the World-Telegram. ? !turned the favor.
' llearned yesterday that three1: "They. got into the habit of.; .
,New York newsmen were also . Asked .why the informati.on I calling,us up," Haddad rei,
employed by Haddad's , office was not available to Shrive( ini called. i'He's a local newsman,I.
the World-Telegram for. ? al he covers the damn thing. Sol
,of inspection. They are Woody. clime
Klein, a prize-winning investi- rather in a con-,he..
galls 'us up and says, 'Hey,'
?.? 'gative reporter for. the New ' fidcntial report :at $60 a daY?!sornething's atiout to blow/.
r.Klein said that his 0E0 re-!And then we wbuld look into' ,
'York World-Telegram and,
? :Sun; F. J. Prial, also of the ports. were more detailed. litf, , ?: .; .. ' ,
' 'World-Telegram;' and Gerson, :Haddad described Klein's . '
Sorneames 'Haddad's. people.L.,
:Jacobson, a reporter for thei,ircport. as "ari_inyaltiableji
=P.c.', Would call. local newsmen, if;
.:New York Journal Day, a Jew..1 ument, .? and added that he the 0E0 clipping 'service: ,
. ? :.ish daily. Klein received $1260;1 doubted there was ? a conflict brought an unfavorable or pa
iPrial, '$1103; and JacobSoni!.of interest. "I don't see where tentially disruptive item tci.l ?
$2071. .! all the influence cornea in,": light. .
't
he said Haddad said it might] "A guy is writing a story in; Marie Ridder, the wife of i
the Washington Bureau chief i be different if a reporter were \4 small. town in California,"
of the Ridder newspapers, re
? ?:-
!, covering the poverty program, Haddad Said.. "He gets' a ? calt4 ?
?lceivecl a $50-a-day fee for-a to- .. When It .was pointed out from Washington and he likes
!,tal of $3250 during fiscal 1965. that Klein had writte. a num- it. We' tell him the call 'is ?Ili
;Mrs. Ridder is 'accredited to' ber of pieces on 'the poverty the record. Hell, .if you dor4:
Congressional press galleries. wart'Haddad said that his case do that You're liable to get' d'
.P: Haddad, who has since left was "unique.", ,..:. ? -,.:?\.:,,: . ? headline the,nextiday:".'21
),I the. 0E0 to become a New ? ..'Aecording :to Haddad -.1nOst. ??'
it York management consultant,
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of the newsmen were used on
reporting assignments. out. of
r.,disclosed that last spring his . ?
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