John Rees (journalist)

John Herbert Rees is a British right-wing journalist and government informant resident in the United States.

[citation needed][5] In the early 1960s, Rees worked in a business position for the London Daily Mirror, but was fired for misusing personal accounts, according to an FBI memo.

Metalious, who had cirrhosis from heavy drinking, changed her will hours before her death at age 39 in 1964, and left her whole estate to Rees.

[4][5] Rees went undercover in Chicago, covertly taping political meetings for testimony he gave to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

[5] Political Research Associates said Rees's network had better placed infiltrators among college activist campus groups than the FBI's agents.

People in law enforcement sometimes leaked derogatory intelligence to Western Goals, which Rees then published in newsletters.

[9] Rees published Information Digest, a newsletter that touted reporting on "the operations and real capabilities of social movements and political groups".

According to The Village Voice, copies circulated among intelligence officials and conservative politicians including Ronald Reagan.