EX-ICA AIDE SAYS HE GOT $25,000 FROM U.S. CONTRACTORS IN LAOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200590044-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: March 24, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 2 4 1959
WASHINGTON, 'T .oved For Release 1999/09/08 - CIA-RDP75-000
AND TIMES HE
FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
1W15,000
A
s
F~tWiiiLaos
ia1 old L;ongress dU1
p th , esterday that he had ac-
(e peed cash,-sfocks and airline
it Iles worth a total of about
5 pt~~ 'rom cbntractorst for
oxmeroreign aid of-
ubhc_ works projec s
a a,, a _the dis-
I sur~?"'o a House Govern.
.jt'"~ions Subcommit-
ec.
His teT mony will be turned
ver to the Department of Jus
ice. ublic works of-
11!icNamara,y~y__~_4i,..
'-die $rm had contracts lul
hways rowing without repayment
hi
g
construction and
amounting to $603,205.40. The $10 000 woQthoof Laos curren?
a former U. S. Army major,
and Gerald A. Peabody as occasions bought airline tick
for McNamara's wife fps
t
s
partners in the concern. which e
operates also in Japan and vacation salsto Hong Kong
o said he ha(
McNamara said lie ^ "` "lo a of Universal for. $446
mended an ICA-financed high-
n y
0 After receiving half paymei
way contract worth $L068,50
he ha
between Universal and the in cash, heed testified the CO
fer of $1.5 million worth of t,11e u,..... r
highway machinery: to the McNamara said it was h
? .. b 1 i c resnnnsibility to sign certi
McNamara a c k n owieugeu ==.p ---- -
U.
e
a $10,000 check signed by at for said
Mans and spec
"
saicl`he received the gifts from
4' dmprican-OWhPd Univer-
Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200590044-4
tlcatio
Idence. had paid for 646 snares
had of stock in the Canada Gen- formal that the workew as ma
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,$angkok and Vientiane. 11957.