NIXON SAYS U.S. TRIAL WON'T HURT PRESTIGE OF U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450113-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: August 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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VIXON . S A Y S U,2 ITRIAL WON'T HURT
PRESTIGE OF.U.S.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17 (AP)
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a 'terrible and devastating
flection on Soviet justice" if the +
dictment of United States poll-
ing up the criticism of its justice t,
if it is mere ccncerutd-about the
Nixon, the Repuh)fcawQT'ttl-
dantial candidate, said he CIt
think tht trial, which began to.
day in Moscow, would harm i
United States prestige abroad.
"A!] peoples of the free rvor'd.
and sophisticated people in Iron I
Curtain countries are aware of
the fact that the United States.
was only trying to protect
itself t
,
?giinst surprise attack,.' he igid *I^
reporters.
Nixon said in the United States `
and ntheY Western countries a
"u is not real 1d t
know it," he baid. i
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