STRANGE PARALLEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200380002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 10, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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The year 1954 was to him W at the' " .r7t. y eta, he said. He was not bit ter.:
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year 1959 was
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^0 caught ?n the web of a big hoax. II of to W "fit If they'd been aUpt up by emotion
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thinking abQtt the former congressman after the qu
scandal hearings, and there emerged a parallel
between Douglas Stziugfellow and Charles Vail Doren. AttW the bottom fell out, More were a lot of times; he
"K 'when he didntA - where his net meal was coming
Doug StringfeUow was Just a few months from Mr. Van from.' He lectured some, and he painted, and then he went
Doren x age of 83 when the world crumbled around -him bed to his old routine of broadcasting.
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after he oonfeaaed. Um1 be,was na
hero he had made out he was, and that he never did aosan. ? That personal expiddlon in 1954, he said, made him' a
pIlsh ch world way n 1eat~sas LuRlnq behind enemy better man witht l}~tselt: "It took that," he said, "to make
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lines t capture a hljh-01 ld ts' az - j m;' a human bed ; }r ' p He Ii the putting his whole st
~whieh is rt tot blial>tere, " Naafi Before the
Like Mi. Van Doren, Dou4 String te li v! wpm endow
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haeckground. As In hir. Van DOrees OW- IHr String- Mel ~ . ue4t1o i .' Would the public forgive
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fellow's hoax : started with j u" e 4 ttl lie. t Mid y, T r w as a
..s _ ,~ .ice .. nit*. 11..u .t ?.,arr+'well iif~th a few Metiers. and
the err swnan belltsh~d on lt. 7U Idaffrew b , Congrwsman Douglas String-
SVira services pL4Yed the at~5ry big. t '
fellow said. I hop. so .
Is Your Life" and-he played his part He wu well eel on
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