Robert Mullen Company was a public relations company in Washington, D.C.Hustlers & Hucksters The firm was founded in 1952 by Robert R. Mullen, who was a campaign press secretary for Dwight D. Eisenhower and information director for the Marshall Plan. Robert R. Mulled Dead at 77; Eisenhower Aide in '52 Race, New York Times, March 20, 1986 The Watergate committee report revealed that the company had in at least two instances been a front for CIA operations abroad, in addition for former CIA intelligence case officer and head of the White House plumbers E. Howard Hunt.
In 1971 the Robert Mullen Company was purchased by future U.S. Senator Robert Foster Bennett, son of U.S. Senator Wallace Foster Bennett. He closed it down in 1974.
History Watergate In 1972 the company received public attention in relation to the Watergate scandal when staff writer E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA intelligence case officer and Mullen employee, was revealed to have been running a group of Nixon Administration "plumbers" responsible for the break-in. He was subsequently convicted of conspiracy and served time in prison. ROBERT R. MULLEN DEAD AT 77; EISENHOWER AIDE IN '52 RACEContext of 'June 17, 1972: Lead Burglar Cleans out Watergate Listening Post, Alerts Lawyer to Arrests'
CIA relationship Howard Baker, the Republican vice-chairman for the Watergate committee wrote in a report:Mormons and the Watergate Scandal - Justice Dept. Warns Church About Illegal Taping
Demise Bennett's principal client at the time of the Watergate was the CIA-aligned Summa Corporation, the holding company of billionaire Howard Hughes. In 1974, after his CIA ties and those of the Mullen Company had been revealed by the Watergate investigation,"A Harlot High and Low: Reconnoitering through the Secret Government", Norman Mailer, New York Magazine, August 16, 1976 he closed the Company and joined Summa full-time as the public relations director for the parent firm and Vice President for Public Affairs for Hughes Airwest.
Notable clients American Bar Association The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints American Automobile Association General Foods United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Central Intelligence AgencyGraff, Garrett M. (2022). Watergate: A New History (1 ed.). New York: Avid Reader Press. pp. 63. . .
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