PEARSON CALLS REYNOLDS 'UNRELIABLE'; BAKER FIGURE DENIES IT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100250028-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: February 5, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/05/5
WASHINGTON POST A1ND FE3 5 1964
TIMES HERALD
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rl F'.i1S Of i,1?eV10Il5
Reckless Chat (~es'
By llsurance 14 axi
By Drew Pearson
and Jack Anderson
consular official to a so dlscoVered,
persuaded Chairman Arbor Watkins (R-I that he had made false state.;
witness s agaiust Presidcl;t pretty visa -applicants. to. sub-iUtah) indignantly called a.ents to the Government on,.
To s in the Robby sides ni a t to hint. ~; halt on the ground that the; mmalty occasions. j
Used his, influcnee to ;et! names were hearsay. i
1-
l
c,1arg*es in the;.
past against
people who
crossed him,
accusing theni
of being x',0111
nlunisls a n d
sex deviates.
Ile went to
'Oct. 9 19J~,;;
t allcgcd
After a
1ec
ess+ visa fora German l;eautyi Jut Reynolds ingratiatcrl Sell .iol's Naive
ith leho ]
CPYRGHT -
0
D
enies
ion to the Government buts staff that screened immi- 11.cynolds' associates, they de.;
had also:
grants entering this country scribed him as "'vicious and:
? Sold various scarce b 1
111ali
u
i
c
o
s.. quick to take re.:;
items on the black market !niwas loaded with Communist ,1
postwar G rmany. sex deviates and Jews. '.'011-e against anyone who,
I crossed him. He was also do-i
?_ Indulged in promiscuous! As he started reeling offs scribed by them as "deceitful'
sex relations with Gernlanithe names of staff members; and untrustworthy."
iris, using his position as a he regarded as sex deviates I The )'RI 1
A lc "au bcen: iiIinS^lt with illcCarran, ' who' In 'his' -personal h?1 s t or n? y
inc. brought pressure on th
Ai
e
rtttbi
saemen, sumtted 1Iarch
? Made anti-Semitic re-FForce to drop,' the 11secuiaty129 1961, Reynolds claimed toy
arks as a consular official;risk" char es.Insteai, the Air;lie an' olltslanis stained at
dii Berlin at a tilde when thelForce quietly hustled Reyn-'Georgetown University's For?1
-sited States was trying to;olds out of the_ service with' - _-. -- .
1s a result of the FBI find ; ernment investigators in AIa' ' 0111 the tln:versity's records
gs, the Air Force began' 1953, that Ile had engaged that ]elmoicis had not coin.
I roccedings against Revnnlrlc1black ma 1- t ":..:.: _ pleleil 1115 requirements for ai
re-i son his that he hail do rec on June 9, I94I be-
spies. ad brought against so many used his post ost as a consular: .
c a(tse he was going into the
costly investigation thers-namely that he wa
l
ffi
s a
o
cer to arrang sel'
,exua re- the FBI cleared them all and' ecurity risk." He was ac.Ilations with girls seeking Army.
sed by the Air Force of+visa On another Government
ConCillrlnrt that n ?.. ., .., , _
acxing morality, discretion,
merely had been taking out i liability, and trustworthi?
ilia "personal grievances" 1 41ss."
against the accused.
]former for Seisators
Indeed, he made so man
y
false accusations that the
FBI in May, 1953, turned the
tables on him and began all
investigation of his own ac-
tivities. The FBI found that
Reynolds, as an American
consular official and later an
Air Force officer,, had not
only furnished false informa-
He. also admitted that he ` ""'?"C :ISLCU accenoance at
had arranged a visa for his' Georgia Tech, though there is
girl friend to enter Switzer- no record at the 'school of his
land, then had tried to get her' enrollment.
' In May, 1953, he told the
admitted to the United Stat
es
Reynolds promptly went' from Switzerlanfl in order to l ba k"hfromethedM been "
I tar turnedy A Acad
er the heads of the Airlcircuin"ent the emigrationlemy at West Point after con-
k rce and FBI to Capitol Iiill.lregulations in Germany. 1
I became an informer for t Under FBI cross e::amina.I t r a c t i n g pneumonia. T het
tie late Sen. Pat -McCarranILion, Reynolds also confessed Academy's records s h o w e d~
3-Nov.), who was trying g toi that he had threatened a Ger I that he was dropped in Janu-1
u eIC uIe aumission of 101-
r grants to this country.
At one closed session, Reyn-
ol s launched into -charges
that the`Immigration' Bureau
man girl that he would use hislciency; that uhea gained read-
"connections" to-get her de-imission, but was discharged
ported if she testified for his again in 1940 for failing in
wife in a divorce suit
. Ihit
cemsry.
When the FBI interviewed , ors
Con "IPrn
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