WIELAND CASE POSITION DEFENDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040148-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: July 28, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CP'T RGHT RY.MORRIE RYSKIND ,
1 Pontius Pilate is' not the ;AI ; in rebuttal, I q'uot in one cotton-pickin' sen- ? y
only one to he troubled by 1 ed ;some of the previous tence in the new material
they question, "What is'i testimony and the com- + that lessens the damaging?
truth?" A juror hears mittee's own evaluation df evidence offered by five--:,
prosecution witness testify Wieland, made.inthe 1362 Fount 'em,. five--former;
k he saw the defendant run-t report-and included in the ambassadors against Wie-
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current one. land; or anything to refute
{ ning out of the bank, his the testimony revolver still clutched in The Times, in running of Intel-
his hand; but the defense., my piece, inserted a note ligence officers that he-'
- -a..--- .,..,,0- ? .,,t,,.i siened by the editor. substituted his own judg-r,
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swears the accused was atl "it-" u1n eu ML 111.Y VW IL { - ~- ??? ?~~ i
the ball game with him at; lack of oh, ectivity in the { gard of FBI, CIA and G-2 eland fbr`State '- bard -
matter: Ihad quoted from { reports, . all '73f'~vhich he hardly for the ambassa
t the time of the crime This' q _ had access to dors and the ?intelli
is one you can't split downrpi'evious hearings field in-1 to, linking Fi- officers. And t;ence
the middle. 1362, whereas the new re- del With comrhunism, apparently
My last column accused! Port . covered the later if I'm proved wrong on not for the ' corfimittee,.
the Associated Press of; hearings of 1963, 1964 and this, I promise to eat the ', either.
offending column at' high And - no matter -what:
highly questionable orris '
fl 1965. } noon in the office of either the AP story says-I dot
Sion in its summation. ofI Now that clearly implies the, AP or The Times.. not believe the FBI eon?I
the hearings on the or I don't understand Come one,' come all. curred in the clearance. ,T.4
liam Wieland case, just English at all-that the.I The,ncw leport does of-, Edgar Hoover hFs refusedi
1. released by the Senate Ju- newer testimony refutes fer, on. the other hand, at consistently to let his' de:'
diciary Committee. r any doubts that may have least one more. instance; partment act as both in
,,',,.land, head of State Depart
'ment's office of Caribbean,.
affairs when Castro rose toy
power (and charged with
being an active apologist ,l
) "h b fllyt
,for Fidel,aseenu
cleared and his security,
,
"case closed."
simply a matter of. State.' this late date. 4
employes evading commit-''. Well, I've faulted th
tee questioning about how 1 AP; The Times has faulte ,
come Wieland is doing all - me;-and I in turn fault The,
who was first asked to eve- the nub of the issued
And it went on-quot ,I "J V ;? , didn't-=is in the doghouse.; I susses you write the(
lug the testimony of a I (,' / Senate Judiciary Commit.
State official - "the deci (Incidentally, two of tee, 3234 lsew Senate ?f
sion to close the case was' r 1, States staff have resigned.. - fice Building, Washington;
made in concurrence with; since being caught making , D.C., for copies o both ths~
the Justice Department,; misstatements before the 1062 and 19f:~ ots?
[ the FBI, a special person-' . : committee. One of. them you can render is ?~ ver
nel advisory board and the, couldn't remember having diet, I
}`. then attorney general; Ryskind bugged Otepka's office till
Robert F. Kennedy." All it was pointed out to him.)_i The Times in th?r nose tq
of which appeared locally! unfair in bringing up.thej which Morrie Ryakind. re'
And. 1 think it signifi=; ers, hinted at nothin
under the headline, "Wie-? latter at all. ' f d. t
s land Fully Cleared for'. But, as a matter of sim- cant that the committee's ~! did give the date, of th
" own evaluation of. Wieland'
Judgment of Castro," pie intelligibility; I submit, .1 report that.-Mr. ,Ryskin
I wrote-and now re-i in 1962 (it did not impugn waa'ri fact quotiny~=-?
it is ;impossible to make, ? f
peat-that such a selective) head or tail out of the new; his loyalty, but questioned
presentation gave the' stuff without referring t.o; his general suitability for ...
I average reader a totally: the old, to which it alludes, sensitive post) appears. in false impression: he would ;,ten, This is not a brand the 1965 report. Had th
, think that "once again at new book, with a com-{ new tesrtim change
the committee's ? m i n d ;
devoted public servant pletel different plot and'
'. surely it Would hate noted'
had been pilloried by some-. cast of characters: this is
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arisen from the 'pre vious,I-where u?ieland a testimo-:j vesttgator and lu`dge, .)est?
hearings and that' I was ny_was of questionable ac- j it be turned into a Gesthpo
It. reported that Wie-; ?. ,? curacy. For the rest, It .La 1 1 doubt he. has changed at1