After returning to Washington, D.C. he was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services and assigned to London, where he became head of the Germany section of X-2 (OSS' Counter Espionage Branch).
[1] In 1955 Scott asked for a transfer to Mexico City, and took office as station chief there in August 1956, becoming "a virtual proconsul" (the real power behind the throne).
[3] Two years after leaving the CIA, in 1971, Scott was preparing a book with his memoirs and discussed them with John R. Horton (Mexico station chief, 1971-1974).
[4][1] Scott died on April 26, 1971, two days before a meeting with the CIA director, Richard Helms, to discuss the contents of his memoir.
[citation needed] After his death, the CIA seized Scott's personal papers, including an audio tape recording of Lee Harvey Oswald and the manuscript of his memoirs which he had firmly intended to publish.