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| ‘Office Memérandum ¢ UNITED sricttes GOVERNMENT ¥ pe To : Mr. A. H. Belmont _ pate: De r 18, 1958 pi? : = ‘ \ ‘ +; 5 aa ——_—— -.? ; = GL - Holloman tg F Today I had luncheon w 7 ' of the New York Post at Hammel's Restaurant. At first we talked about a variety -4 of topics including world communism, American foreign policy, business conditions wt in northern New England, Kennedy's chances for securing the Democratic nomination, wee current political trends, et cetera. At the appropriate moment I mentioned the attack of his paper, the New York Post, upon FBI at first drew into his shell at | like a turtle hit on the head. He literally curled up a bit. Gradually, he mwound, I learned the following: _ oP aL. fu his paper, the New Yorx Post, upon the FBI, however, and from tat f As indicated, these are the three major motivating factors behind the New York Post's current attack upon the FBI as culled from my conversation with , They require some elaboration. Larter out to me that the New York Post is limited in the main t | New York City and with its tremendous population the Post has relatively only a modest circulation; therefore, it is necessary for the Post to be constantly on the i 4 ser for topics and headlines a therefrom which will gain for the Post new ” srart _ 94. F~12, readers and increase profits. xplained that the Post has, of course, regular subscribers but it also has over and above this what might be called fluid ar changing readers. By this is meant, readers who will buy the Post for a period time because the Post runs special articles in which the readers have an intere a He cited for me four examples. He s e Post has run RS ] | Norman Vincenft Peale, Bishop Fulton J Meneen and Cardinagt@pellman, Because pos | jail three of these national figures have a large following,when the Post ran these | critical articles its sales went up rapidly, because both the friends and the critics of Sheen, Spellman, and Peale were anxious to see what was written about these Tr fon meeny pray Prrrr re individuals. points out that the’ Post justifies its criticism of these religious Wop imme SAN NEY NK, oT 4578 7- -F IS toe os 9 wan 7 is JAN 7 1959 Oss {: r.- nt ‘~- <b - Mr. Sullivan om css DAL