FULBRIGHT IRKS DIPLOMATS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920073-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: July 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Fulbright Irks Diplom'bts
that Chairman J. William Fulbright's questioning of wit-
nesses at closed hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations
? ,Committee on 'the Dominican intervention was done with
the aid of a confidential memorandum from a reporter.who
was in Santo Domingo.
!f "That's a hell of a way to set foreign policy," said one. ..
offici,pl when he learned that the memorandum was written! .by' a6 Eastern reporter who has criticized the U.S. inter- ~S1
vention.
The memo, It was learned, was not volunteered by the
reporter, but was sought by Fulbright. Witnesses who have
;`.testified, before the committee have included Undersecre-, -,,
to the` Dominican Republic W.'Tapley Bennett.
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