DEBATE ON DODD IS WITHHELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300061-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: May 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON 5
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Debate on
By ROBERT WALTERS
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has rejected a
member's request that it make
;.public the transcript of a closed
meeting where allegations
against Sen.Thomas J. Dodd, D-
~Conn., were discussed.
Dodd was not present at the
Feb. 21 executive session when
.other committee members
considered asking him to explain
his relationship with Julius
Klein, a Chicago public relations
man and registered foreign
agent.
Columnists Drew Pearson and
;,hack Anderson said In a March 7
1 -column that members present
"debated whether to throw Dodd
off the committee" because of
his alleged dealings with Klein,
who represents West German
interests.
"Dodd was saved, thanks to
the intervention of Sens. Russell
Long, D-La.; Claiborne Pell, D-
R.I., and Stuart Symington, D-
, Mo. They rallied behind him
vigorously to preserve the
sancitity of the Senate club," the
columnists said in a March 12
story.
Letter by Pell
On March 21, Pell wrote to
Sen. J. William Fulbright,
chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. His letter, in
"I respectfully request that
? Klein was one of those ques-
tioned by the committee. The'
columnists said Klein's reputa-
tion was damaged because of
the hearings and that he called
on Dodd to make a trip to Ger-
many in 1964 to help Klein
"hang onto his clients." {
In a $5 million libel suit tiled'
last week against Pearson; and.'
Anderson, Dodd said the allega-
tions were "false, malicious andj
defamatory.". 11
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MAY 12 1965
odd 0s Withheld
the transcript of our Foreign
Relations Committee meeting of
Feb. 21 be released to the press.
"I make this request because
press accounts based on incom-
plete data have been inaccurate
and misleading, particularly in
regord to my own participa-
tion."
Pell said he planned to "make
the appropriate motion at the
first opportunity." Fulbright's
reply to Pell, also dated March
21, said "decisions of this kind
are within the prerogative of the
committee."
Formal Request
Pell made his formal request
at a May 3 executive session of
the committee, but was defeated
on a voice vote after what one
committee aide described as
"considerable discussion."
Long was not avaibable for
Symington said he would have
been glad to have the transcript
released but would not disclose
how he voted or whether his
position at the Feb. 21 meeting
was accurately described by the
comment.
Much of the material in the
more than 30 derogatory col.
umns written about Dodd in
recent months by Pearson and
Anderson has centered around
allegations that the senator
aided Klein following a 1963
Foreign Relations Committee
investigation of foreign agents. .