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104-10116-10118 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/2/1968)

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                                             2 October 1968



      SUBJECT: MORIN, Relman aka Pat



      ALLEGAMION:                            CIA CONECTION:

          Relman MORIN is the                     Subject was granted a covert security
      author of Assassination,             clearance on 10 September 1951 in order
      a pro-Warren Commission book.          that he might be approached relative_
                                             to possible use by ProjectD!TPILLAR.j   '
                                             He was not used and the clearance was
                                             cancelled 11 January 1952.

      SOURCE:

      Memo No. 9 dtd
      5 June 1968

      OS INDICES RESULTS:

           Subject's file reflects the clearance as set out above. He was being
      considered for the position of President of the                   I

          A  limited investigation conducted in August 1951 revealed the following
      information. Subject was born 11 September 1907 at Freeport, Illinois.
      He graduated from Pomona College in 1929 and was a special student at Lingnon
      University, Canton, China; Shanghai College and Yen-Ching University, Peiping,
      China.  He was a reporter for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, 1923-1929; SHANGHAI
      EVENIlG POSE, 1930; LOS ANGELES RECORD, 1931-34; and joined the Associated
      Press in 1934. He was AP correspondent in Tokyo, Japan, 1937-1940; roving
      correspondent in the Far East, 194041;*and was interned by the Japanese in
      Saigon, 1941-42. Subject was repatriated on the Gripsholm in 1942 and from
      1942 to 1945 he served as a war correspondent with the Associated Press in
      England, North Africa, Italy, India, the Middle East and France. He was
      chief of the Associated Press, Paris Bureau, from 1945 to 1947; and chief
      of the Washington, D. C. bureau from 1947 to 1949. In 1949 he became General
      Executive of the Associated Press at New York City.

           Subject is the author of Circuit of Conquest, published in 1943., which
      is the story of his experiences as a war correspondent during World War II.

      DETAILS:

           The 1968-69 edition of Who's Who lists Subject as the author of the
      following additional books: East Wind Rising, 1960; Churchill:  Portrait
      of Greatness, 1965; and co-author of The Newsman Speaks, Southern
      Schools:  Progress and Problems.

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                                      SECRET                    RETURNO   CIA
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