AGENTS SHADOW VIET BEAUTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100960004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT MAR 2 9 1965
CPYRGHT
Y'iie Washington Merry-Go-Itound
By Jack Anderson. orces back on a war footing,
curlty agents wish the fam-
Since American dependents
were sent home from South lea were around to occupy.
JVict-Nam, security agents have e men on lonely evenings.
!the chaplains
to keep lonely
(night clubs.
For too many
officers, ? daz- ,?
zled N by ro-
,mance or, tipsy
gence informa- Anderson
tion to Vietnamese beauties.,
One report claims that half
the girls in Saiigon's night
clubs peddle information to
the Communists. Others main-
tain a profitable neutrality by
spying Impartially for both
sidca.
Some commanders
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.
glad to see A he wives and
{children leave. They had Intro-
educed A m e r i c a n suburban
,living - complete with PX
supermarkets,': soft drink ma-
chines, station, wagons, air
conditioners, and office'rs'
clubs-to the .Saigon environs.
This soured the lpss privi-
leged Vietnamese, who were
forever scurrying out of. the
way. of high-powered Ameri-
can cars. .
1, Though the rlepaitture of tbe~
BI Blackballs Aide
Despite an adverse FBI re-
ort, . Rep. Mike Feighan , (D-
h1o) has been fighting to un-
ad. a private Investigator
rom his own payroll and
lant him on the Government
ayroll.
Feighan has taken over the
hairmanship of the House
m m i grartion Subcommittee.
s his $20,000-a-year chief
ounsel, he wants the Judici-
ry Committee to approve
hilip Corso, who has been
inning private investigations
r him.
But the FBI has, submitted
n uncertain report on Corso,
mysterious figure who has
eon masterminding right-
ing intrigue on Capitol Hill.
he colonel, as he likes to be
ddressed, worked out of the
Ilice of Sen. Strom Thur-
end (R-S.C.), the white su-
emacy champion, before
tching on to Feighan.
Attorney General Nicholas
eB. Katzenbach furnished the
udiciary Committee with the
B); report, which accused
orsu 'of, m thing illegal. But
was so disconcerting that
hairman Emanuel Celler
N,Y.) refused to
approve
In
the Attorney General and
tongue-lashed. him for turning
the FBI memo over to Celler.
Feighan accilsed Katzenbacjt
of "McCarthy-like tactics" for
circulating "unevaluated" In-
formation-this from a Con-
gressman" who has conjured
up "Communists" where not
even the late ` Sen. Joe Mc-
Carthy Imagined them.
(Feighan has charged from
the sanctuary of the House
floor, far example, that the
Central Intelligence Agency Is
loaded with Communists, thus
implying that John McCone
runs a house of treason.)
Showdown With Celler
After scorching Katzenbach,
the Congressman from Cleve-
land tried to override Celler
and ram the Corso appoint-
ment through the Judiciary
Committee. During the 'show-
down, Celler sought In vain
to placate; Feighan. .
Celler told Feighan he was
forcing him to reveal some-
thing he didn't want to., Celler
then revealed he had'received
FBI memo, which 'reported,",
among other things, - that r
Corso was the source of the
vicious iumor that President.
Kennedy's assassin, Lee Os-
wald, had been In the pay of'-
the FBI.
When FBI agents confronted'
Corso, he blandly explained.
that he had picked up the ru-
mor from a CIA source whom
he refused to identify.
Corso also has been a close
Associate of Frank Capell,.:
who claims to have files on-
over 2 mill!- Communists in.,
this country (some 1,970,000"
more than the FBI has been-i
able to find) and who was In-"
dicted last month by a Los
Angeles grand jury for his
alleged part In preparing an
ugly, false affidavit against.
Sen. Tom Kuchcl (R-Calif.).
After listening to the P13I.'
report, not n single Judiciary
member supported Felghan's.
demand to put Corso on the
public payroll.'
Jnable lo stick the taxpay-
ers with Corso's salary, Fel?g?
ban is. continuing to Pay hhn'-
ut
f
i
t
f
pr
va
e
unds. This has
o
an FBI report on Corso that o
him o be unreliable caused some of 'Feighan's col.
showed to make the leagues to wonder. For he has
showed h refused to im .
and he a reput
appointment: Feighan fumed, a penny-ion i the Hohoe A's
plirche r, who hoards
but Cellcr, asked him- to rec- pencils, pads, and paper clips.
pmmend someone else better They wonder If he Would shell,
qualified'than.Corso. . the money out of. his own
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