SELDEN BLASKS FULBRIGHT AND 'SLANTED' REPORTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920045-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: September 24, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By JEREMIAH Q'LEARY
Latin America Writer of 77ta Star
U. S. Ambassador W. Tapley
Bennett Jr. would have. been
derelict in his duty no. to have
requested protection for? 5,000
American and other nations in
the Dominican Republic last
April 8, says Rep. Armistead I.
Selden, D-N. C., chairman of
House subcommittee on Latin
America.
In a speech disputing charges
by the chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
Sen. J. W.. Fulbribht,. D-Ark.,
who attacked U. S.-intervention
in the Dominican Republic,
Selden charged yesterday that
"highly placed foreign policy
spokesmen" were echoing
"irresponsible and incredibly
slanted" reports by some
American newsmen.
Without naming Fulbright,
Selden clearly had him in mind
when he said:
"Especially dangerous is the
practice by those in high posi-
tions of government of embrac-
ing as the basis of their state-
ments the , incredibly slanted
reports of some journalists."
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Selden said he wanted "such
1 misrepresentation of ? our na-
tion's foreign policy to be
understood for what; it is, not
the responsible reports of a free
press, but the ? irresponsible
propaganda of some who, under
the protective cloak of,jourrialis.
tic rights, have sought to under-
cut and reshape our national
policy to suit their own precon-
ceived views. .
"To dissent out of what one
interests is an act of couragef"
he continued, "but to dissent on
the basis of grossly , biased
information undermines our
government's extremely diffi-
morning papers.
Selden said it would be a
:breach of confidence to disclose
:names but noted.-that he, like
the chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
has access to all the documenta-
tion not generally, available, and
added:
"I
can assure
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Solden generated some centre-.Domingo) have expressed their
belief that the intervention was
timely and necessary." .
to-one margin, in support of j' "Specious" Argument .
unilateral intervention by any On the point of Bennett's
American nation in any other i advice to Johnson to land the
where there is a threat of a
Communist takeover.
Selden charged that a chrono-
logy of events published by
Fu1b:i? ht's , committee "isa "None were killed because of
crammed with grossly biased
quotes, overwhelmingly gleane .
from the New York Times, the
New York. Herald Tribune anc
the Washington Post," creatin i
the impression that all of tc
press of the nation was critica'
of the intervention.
Mariens. Selden said it was
"specious" to argue that no
the swift decision to ? protect
them," Selden said.
He labeled as another myth
the contention that the danger
of Communist takeover was
exaggerated. Selden said there
were more than 1,000 soldiers
on the rebel side but there were
1,500 members of the three
He said the reports were the civ lians the
taking several
part tuns the
product of slanted reporting by~revolt.
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ens for The Times, Herald machine guns and rifles toll
Tribune and Post. civilians," Selden said, "what i
Selden criticized by name I had begun as an essentially i
reporters Tad Szulc of The i military uprising changed to,
Times, Bernard Collier of Thep anarchic disorder. The superior
Herald Tribune and Dan Kurz- organization' and training of the
man of The Post. Communists shortly found them
He cited the absence from the~in key positionsamong the
chronology of the findings o; I . _, ,
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