COMMUNICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 20, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

WASHINGTON POST
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AUG 20 1968.
17;17'3 171;i1:'
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, r:y Drew 1),?;:rson
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1,that invited Senator Dodd to
-
corn,: to Miami, but a Cuban
organization called the Cuban'
Representation in Exile, the
RECS.
More important, if they had
checked, they would have
found that Senator Dodd .did
I wish to correct some of not, as charged, cash in the
?
the inaccuracies about the plane ticket sent to him from
'
trip to Miami by Sen. Thomas Miami and "pocket the pro-
.cee.ds." He did not do so for'
Dodd last September. Pear-?
e very simple reason that.
son-Ancici?,..!a write: "In Sop- ' the
. .
tember, 1935, Dodd and his as.-
although the ticket, number.
sistant, David Martin 'flew to
?Miami to interview General
,Wessin y Wessin, the Domini-
can strong, man, billing the
,Senate Internal Security Corn-
Taittee $153.72 e a ch for
travel."
Pau/ D. Bethel, executive
secretary of the Citizens
Committee for a Free Ct.:be,
replies to charge: nias:e in
' this column on hug. 12:
. Pearson-Anderson go on:
."11?Icanwhile, they had already
been furnished plane/ tickets
'for the same trip by the Citi-
zens Committee for a Free
;Cuba, which also picked up
theii hotel bill at the fashion-
.ablr: Eden Itoc Hotel on Mi-
ami Beach. In addition, the
:Cubans gave D.o(rd two more
?tickets, Whisah he used to
.bring two sons, Torn Jr. and
:Jeremy; to Miami with him."
283-31:5-219. was purchased; it,
was not used, and the money'
was refunded to RECE.?Thus,,
Senator Dodd couldn't possi-!
bly have pocketed the money,:
could he?
Furthermore, we didn't:
"obediently" mail the Senator'
a check for $150, as the Pear-.
son-Anderson column has it:
The Senator generously insist-
ed on paying for a dinne: to
which we the Citizens Corn-,
mittee for a Free Cuba, had ??
invited him 'to attend, while
he was in Miami.
As I said in my letter to
Senator Dodd, a copy of.
which is in the hands of the
Senate Committee on Stand-.
I. PearsOn-Anderson continue: anis and. Conduct: "I had ar-.?
ranged. in avanee that the
:'`Dodd simply cashed the tick-
given him C..olf.raittee would pay for that;
,et the Cubans had dinner Friday night. Your gen-
;:and pocketed the proceeds. an picking up the bill,'
(Martin transferred his ticket 'er?s1"Y
and your insistence that you,
;to his wife's name' and pay it is certainly appreciated.'
!brought her to Miami with
him" Pearson and AndersonBut the account had already'
...
did not check with the Cal-
been taken care of so I
'zcns Committee for a Free
Cuba before they wrote their
story, nor did they even check
',with the Cuban community in
1Miami.
If they had done so, they
would have learned that the
Citizens Committee is not Cu-
ban at all. It is an American
organization, something which
is known to most reporters.
Second, if they had checked
their story before writing it,
they would also have known?
that it was not the Citizens:
Committee for a Free' Cuba
thought it best to let it go for
the moment and then send:
you back the nioney.1! ?
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