The Owner and Editor of the National Enquirer Buried Stories for the CIA

Plus he use to work for them.


Exclusive! Enquirer Editor Buried Stories for CIA!

By Jeff Stein
Now it can be told: The founding editor of the National Enquirer gave a freelance photographer’s long-lens photo of a sensitive document in Henry Kissinger’s briefcase to the CIA rather than publish its embarrassing contents.

Or at least that’s what author Paul David Pope says in a forthcoming book.

“Secretary of State Kissinger had attended an international human-rights conference and sat with his back to a viewing balcony, his briefcase open,” Pope writes in the book, an advance copy of which was made available to SpyTalk.

“A freelance photographer on the balcony saw its contents through a long lens and snapped its shutter,” Pope continues. “When the photograph landed on his desk,” the editor of the National Enquirer “could clearly read the topmost sheet in the briefcase, a document with the name of people that no one in government wanted the public to know were involved with the nation’s intelligence apparatus.”
Pope has a unique vantage on this particular story: The editor in question was his father, Gene Pope, founder of the scandal-mongering tabloid. Gene Pope, meanwhile, happened to have reason to turn toward the CIA. Through family connections, he had dodged the Korean War draft by doing a two-year stint with the agency in psychological warfare.....SNIP

rest of the story.

BTW .. The National Enquirer after Pope's death had new management
and editor and then received Anthrax during the letter scare.


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/04/exclusive_enquirer_editor_buri.html

CBS, ABC and the NY Times have CIA connections too.