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Most of the money for retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland’s libel suit against CBS came from Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the country’s richest men and a leading financier of New Right causes. Westmoreland’s chief defense lawyer, Dan M. Burt, said in an interview this week that Scaife, a great-grandson of the founder of the Mellon oil and banking empire, was the “real funder” of the Westmoreland case. Burt said Scaife put up more than $2 million of the approximately $3 million that it cost Burt’s Capital Legal Foundation to pursue the lawsuit.
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