Robert_Mullen_Company
Robert Mullen Company
Former public relations company
Robert Mullen Company was a public relations company in Washington DC.[1][better source needed] 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.[2] A Watergate committee report revealed that the Robert Mullen Company had in at least two instances been a front for CIA operations abroad,[3] 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.