'SPOKE FOR HIMSELF ALONE' MCN DENOUNCES FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920056-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: September 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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alone, and. not for, " the . Senate sub-committee on Latin ..and the people of Latin
membership of his Foreign Re- " America, s u p.p o r t e d Sen.
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Democrat "spoke for himself (D., are.), chairman of a " Dominican intervention he said
I ; Robert McNaat)'tara. Johnson, and Rep. Gerald R. force to stay in power.
He told, a news conference it Ford (Mich.), House Republican . DODD'S STAND
n Wan Morse
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1, MLWJUICU,'CJICIUpy ...... o _ ,. 'Thom"as J. Dodd'(D.,'Conn.), a "communists are about to get,
retort from Defense Secretary close friend of President us," are using U.S. military
asked for protectton. of fie om. .
-denunciation of U.S. action in
the Dominican Rep u b 11 c Sen. Fulbright's ..'elm vge also Sen. Morse said would-be
-W i 111 a m F u I b r i g h t' s nationals because many of them dangerr it poses to the survival,
It -.4 of
The controversy over Sen. J.' 'danger to the lives of their ? blind them to the very real
ST Progress died with Jd1n
NO QUESTION. `Fulbright's reference to 'W. said.
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i, prevent the victory a a Zone be modified to include its was tardy and could have been;
revolutionary movement, 'which embassy "because of the danger '."better planned. "When.,,tie '
was judged to be coMmkimist- the "personnel of it embass .
tlomin.ated.' x Y -situation became'- 'acute,~~ the
He also- criticized Sen. President had no choice," he -
to save American lives, but "to r- - ----- All-P. . V.U vaancU
boundaries of the International interventions, but said the action
'"There'was no question in my Johnson intervened in the .
mind then and. there is none Dominican Republic - on the,
I -American ties that existea ai "I think in many respects his
",that- time, and that was the (Sen. Fulbright's). 'statement
immediate', -? cause ? for :'the ,was a unfair attack on a
'introduction'of U.S. troops,
very able and a very dedicated.
don't think 'there. is any.; ? Foreign Service. officer,"- said
foreign ' gover-tmenta: as' tot : ' " Sen. Dodd's speech, said Sen.
'by a' number;. of. people (who),
;are so.-.. bemused by. the,.
communist .pretension to social
[.-revolution that they permit their