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ay . f rama oe ar fy , ‘Office Memdérandum « onvrep sTittes GOVERNMENT : Mr. A. H. Belmont . DATE: “_ 18, 1958 cs) x “yh mn =s yp sup, a5 New York Post- ~- “— i OS — tg j Today I had luncheon w t of the New York Post at Hammei'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, Ses current political trends, et cetera. At the appropriate moment I mentioned the attack * of his paper, the New York Post, upon the FBI. Gaus at first drew into his shell 3. jure a turtle hit on the head. He literally curled up a bit. Gradually, he unwound, aed however, and from I learned the following: z 2-4 au ~ \ N x 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. SE 01s out to me that the New York Post is limited in the main to | 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 t alert for topics and headlines flowing therefrom which will gain for the Post new E readers and increase profits. ‘xplained that the Post has, of course, E regular subscribers but it also has over and above this what might be called fluider , changing readers. By this is meant, readers who will buy the Post for a period 3 time because the Post runs special articles in which the readers have an intere c i t ' 94. F-17, He cited for me four examples. He s: e Post has run ]| Norman VincenpPeste Bishop Fulton JXSheen, an and Cardinagt@pellman, Because { yaa three of these national figures have a large following,when the Post ran thase 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 individuals. Gm points out that the’ Post justifies its criticism of these religious Ws immbag 43 ANE YVR, oT Sysr-- YES ~ Mr. nt ** ae 1: rr. Sullivan a 0 2¢