Alan Magee Scaife

<p>Alan Magee Scaife, Philanthropist, namesake of <a title="University of Pittsburgh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh">University of Pittsburgh Medical School</a> building. <a title="Yale Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Corporation">Yale Corporation</a> member 1957-1958. Father of <a title="Richard Mellon Scaife" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a> and <a title="Cordelia Scaife" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordelia_Scaife">Cordelia Scaife</a>. Involvement in <a title="Office of Strategic Services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">OSS</a> described at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=2507&id2=3280" href="http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=2507&id2=3280">[18]</a>.

Perhaps it was this once-removed brush with intrigue that led to Dick Scaife's growing fascination with conspiracies of all kinds. "He's the kind of person who looks under his bed every night before they go to sleep," said a longtime family acquaintance and prominent Pennsylvania Republican. In the early 1980s, Scaife told a Philadelphia Inquirer interviewer that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was one of his heroes, and that the most influential book he had read was "The Spike," co-authored by former Newsweek correspondent and Washington Times editor Arnaud de Borchgrave, in which a young reporter finds himself cast as a pawn in the Soviet Union's master plot to take over the world.

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