SLANTED DOMINICAN VIEWPOINT IS CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200320020-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 24, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

?New York, Ne> York
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~1a~ted I~om,inican Viewp-oimt Is ~ Charged
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:~ Dadd Accuses Senate Camm.ittee Staff ? ?' / ~ ~; ~. ._, .,
Sanitized ~ Appro~re~i FortRelease
WASHINGTON, Aug, 23 ~ --
!'Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D -
I Conn,) ,today, in. effect accused
~ the staff of the Senate For-
; eign Relations ,Committee of
giving a slanted viewpoint in a
'~ recent document about ~ the
t events that took place In the
f Dominican Republic uprisings
f this year. '
F' The . d o c ti m e a t entitled
"Background Information Re-
dating to the Dominican Re-
public" was prepared for the
members of the Senate For-
:. eign Relations Committee for
their closed-door hearings on
"the Dominican Republic. Sen.
J. William Fulbright (D: Ark.)
said that no .report ,would be
`issued because ,the .committee
members were so divided on
the findings..
Sen, Dodd, himself a mem-
ber o~ the Foreign Relations
'? Commttee, said in a lengthy
speech on the Senate -floor
that the Foreign Relations
Committee staff had compiled
+' more than 100 quotes from
`three Eastern seaboard news-
' papers for the document. He
r accused the , staff of ignoring
:other sources of the U.S, press
;whose reportings, Sen. Dodd
said, backed up Prestdent John-
'
; son
s decision to land troops in
;the' Dominican Republic.
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that the committee's report
failed to make reference to the
document compiled by a special
OAS committee that made an
on-the-scene report . to the OAS
foreign ministers, He said that
this committee`s report "shared
the administration's evaluation
of the degree, of communist
control in rebel movement, and
that in general, they felt that
the Administration had taken
the only possible course of ac-
tion."
Referring to the omission on
the part of the committee's
staff of news sources other
than the three Eastern sea-
board papers, he said:
"This one-sidedness is sim-
ply another manifestation oP
the. widespread impression, es-
pecially in the Eastern- part of
our country, that the American
press corps in Santo Domingo
was almost unanimously criti-
cal of President Johnson's de-
cision and skeptical of the re-
ports put out by the American
Embassy in Santo Domingo and
by the Department of State.
"This impression stemmed
more than anything else from
the bitterly critical attitude of
the correspondents assigned to
cover the Dominican .uprising
by the three major metropoli-
r
and The Washington Post.'" '~
Sen: Dodd emphasized, how?i
ever, that he had no quarrel
with ? the three. newspapers,
pointing out that they were
the first, three he read every-
day,
"However, . the Times and
Tribune and Post, are not bye
themselves the press of Amer-
ica. Nor despite the great repu-
tations they enjoy, :are their
correspondents any more ex?
perienced, any more competent,
any more deserving of credi-
bility, than .are .the correspond-
ents of our wire services and
our news magazines and of the
many. other ,great American
newspapers, large and small,"
he said:
Sen.. Dodd also ?noted that
the committee's document
overlooked statements on the
Dominican Republic situation
issued by the AFI:-CIO,
CONOTRAIVI, the largest Do-
minican Labor .Federation, as
well as statements by the In- ?
ter-American Regional Organi-
zation of Workers.
He expressed hope that "the
staff of the Foreign Relations
Committee will be instructed,
in preparing such future stud-
ies to bring together all perti-
nent :documents and not mere?
ly selected documents, and ? to
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