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104-10116-10118 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/02/1968)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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2 October 1968


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SUBJECT:  MORIN, Relman aka Pat


ALLEGATION:


CIA CONNECTION:


     Relman MORIN is the
author of Assassination,
a pro-Warren Commission book.


     Subject was granted a covert security
clearance on 10 September 1951 in order
that he might be approached relative
to possible use by Project(TPILLAR.
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 Asia Foundation ],2

     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 ANGLES   TIMES, 1923-1929; SHANGHAI
EVENING 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, 1940-41;' 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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