DODD'S FINANCES TO BE G.O.P. ISSUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300091-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: April 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW ;PORK TIMES
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'DODD'S FINANCES
TO BE G.O,P. ISSUE
Charges on Fund - Raising
to' Figure in Campaign
By WILLIAM E. FARRELL
Special to The New York Times
NEW HAVEN, April 27 -~ney has written to Mr. Dodd
,
The controlversy in Washington ?'urging him,to refute the Pear-
,over the financial affairs ofson-Anderson allegation, and to
Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Dem-
ocrat of Connecticut, is provid-
ing political ammunition for
monial dinners to the Senate
Ethics Commitee, nor has he
"authorized any such statement
in my behalf."
Mr. Pinney said persons who
had attended several of the
testimonail dinners for Senator
Dodd told him "almost to' a
man, 'I didn't think I was con-
tributing to anything other than
a political operation, and I cer-
tainly wasn't out to line some-
one's pocket.'"
yuctiL?ib nun to speax out on
$the controversy. Thus far Mr.
man, A. Searle Pinney, when responses.
asked today whether the Dodd Connecticut Democratic lead.
situation would become an is: ers, although pained by the sit-
sue in the forthcoming guber-
natorial and Congressional cam-
paigns, replied: "Oh, yes.'
Mr. Pinney said that many;
people throughout the state he
had talked to had "expressed
shock" about the charges. He
added that there was concern
"amongst people like myself
that this sort of things serious-
ly undermines public confidence
In campaign giving."
Tax Requirements
The Senate Ethics Commit,
tee and; the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, at Senator Dodd's
request, are looking into
charges made in a series of
columns by Drew Pearson and
Jack Anderson. Included are
charges that, the Senator diverte
to his personal use funds that
had ostensibly been raised for
campaign expenses.
Under rulings of the Internal
Revenue Service, campaign
funds used for personal expense
must be reported as income and
are taxable.
Senator Dodd's associates have
insisted that the more than
5100,000 raised at dinners in
1961, 1963, 1964 and 1965 were
to be regarded as individual,
tax-free gifts to be used by the
Senator at his discretion to de-
fray either "campaign deficits
or other "plitical expenses."
However, Senator Dodd has
said that, he has made no state-
ment on the matter of testi-
uation, are saying only that
the rank-and-file Democrats
are solidly behind Senator Dodd.
Some evidence of this was
shown Sunday when the Sena-
tor spoke at a Knights,of Col-
umbus meeting in New Britain,
Conn. The 650 persons who at-
tended gave him a standing
ovation.
In another development, it
was learned that an autorno-
bile that had been lent to Sena-
tor Dodd by Dunbar Associates
of Newington, a firm that spec-
ializes in relocating businesses,
had been returned. The auto-
mobile had figures in a Pear-
son-Anderson column.
David P. Dunbar, head of the
company, said that the car had
been returned "quite a while
ago" and that it had been
"loaned strictly on a personal
basis.", ,
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