EX-AIDE SAYS DODD TALES WERE TRUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300006-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Were True
Aide Says
'odd Tales
The Select Senate Committee
on Standards and Conduct began
public hearings June 22 into
charges by columnists Drew
Pearson and Jack Anderson that
Connecticut Senator Thomas
Dodd had used his position for
unethical purposes and that he
used campaign funds for his
personal use.
The first senate hearing into
the doings of a colleague since
the McCarthy hearings of 1954
drew a large press turnout.
The first witness, Dodd's for-
mer administrative assistant,
James E. Boyd, backed up the
Pearson-Anderson charges that
Dodd had been in frequent com-
munication with Julius Klein, a
registered lobbyist for West
Germany interests, that he fre-
quently used Klein's suite in a
New York City hotel (Essex
House), that he entertained
West German friends of Klein,
including the former foreign
minister, Von Brentano, and
that Klein had bought $1,000
worth of tickets to a Dodd fund
raising dinner.
On the Pearson-Anderson
charge that Dodd received ex-
pensive Persian rugs from Klein,
Boyd could not peg them down
as a Klein gift even though he
had been in Dodd's home and
seen what he considered to be
Persiap rugs.
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major genera , was a iicage
newspaper executive before he
engaged in public relations coun-
selling in Washington.
Boyd explained to the com-
mittee. that he went to Jack
Anderson with the Dodd docu-
ments because he felt both the
Senate and the Justice Depart-
ment would have felt obligated
to inform Dodd about the situ-
ation, thus diminishing the
chances of successfully exposing
the situation in full.
Boyd said he decided to take
the matter to the public, and
that "the best representative of
the public is the press." Re-
garding his relations with the
columnists, Boyd said that "at
no time have I or any of those
with me ever received a cent of
compensation." He undertook
the venture at "very heavy
financial loss," he declared.
Pearson was at the press
table.
At one point Committee Coun-
sel Ben Fern began reading ex-
cerpts from exhibit documents
submitted to the committee by
Dodd. Previously the committee
had ruled out as evidence some
Lagg* documents copied and
aken from Dodd's office by'
Boyd. Dodd's lawyer, John F.
Sonnett, protested that the re
ing of the excerpts would distort
the meaning of the documents
and that "with the press print-
ing only a portion of these docu-
ments" there would be articles
in the press which would inac-
curately report the situation.
Chairman John Stennis stated
that "there is a physical prob-
lem here," meaning that time
would not allow for full read-
ings, but that the press would be
free to examine the quoted docu-
ments in their entirety later.
The charges which Pearson
and Anderson have made against
Dodd in their syndicated col-
umns are also the basis for a
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brought against the writers.
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