VIET NAM'S NIGHT CLUBS SPY HAVENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600150046-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 29, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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HUNTINGTON# W.VA.
ADVERTISER
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.MAR 29 1965"
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prove Philip Corso. who hail' been'runnhig,'
private investigations for him.
But the,FBI has submitted'a derogatory;
report on Corso, who has been mastermind-,
hug right-wing intrigue on Capitol Hill. The,
as he likes to. be addressed,'
colonel
,
wnrlscd out of the office of Sen. ' Strom;
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-114 I(La ?ILU.) JYG6 DIYG lrViWIIYIY Y.I W..YYYV..I Ina rage, Feighan phoned the Attorney'
by his nssoctate, Jack Anderson.) 'General and tongue-lashed him for turning
WASHINGTON - Since American de-tthe FBI memo over to Celler.
pendents were sent home from South Viet' Closed-Door Showdown
1 Nam, security agents have been preaching.
harder than the chaplains to keep lonely, After scorching Katzenbach, the Con.,
officers out of the native night clubs. . 'gressman from Cleveland tried to over.,
For too many officers, dazzled by ro-;ride Celler and ram the Corso appointment
mance or tipsy from booze, have beenithrough the Judiciary Committee. During:
passing on intelligence information to Viet-,the closed-door showdown, Celler sought in:
namese beauties. - ' vain to placate Feighan. i
One report claims that half the girls, "All right, Mike," Celler.said,. "you're;
An Saigon's night clubs peddle information, driving me to reveal something I don't
to the Communists., Others maintain a prof-.;svant to. The fact is that I have received.'
,table neutrality by spying impartially for an FBI report' on Corso, and it shows him ;
both sides. 'to be unreliable.' I'm not going to appoint
Some commanders were glad to 'see the . a man to the.staff of this committee whom .
wives and children leave. They had intro the FBI considers unreliable."
duced American suburban living - com- ? "You mean. you are not going to appoint"
,plete with PX. supermarkets, Coco-Cola ma- somebody I want on the staff?" fumed
chines, station wagons, air conditioners,; Feighan. "I'm a subcommittee 'chairman;
and officers' clubs - to the Saigon en- and am entitled to pick the people I need.*
virons. 11 consider Corso reliable."
rivileged Vietnam- "
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Please recommend , someone 'else,;
ese, who, were forever scurrying out ' ofl Mike,". pleaded Celler. "But please maker
,the way of high-powered American cars. j.sure he is better qualified than this' man
Though the departure of the dependents; Corso."
has put ? the U. S. forces back on a war, When Feighan refused to withdraw, the
footing, security agents wish, the families! appointment, Celler reluctantly read' the;
were around to occupy the men on lonely1 FBI memo which reported,' among other:
evenings. things, that Corso was the source of the
vicious rumor that President Kennedy's ` as
FBI Blackballs Aide
Bassin, Lee Oswald, had been in the payq
Despite an adverse FBI report, Rep. of the FBI. ? `
Mike Feighan, D-Ohio, has been fighting" When FBI agents confronted Coro; ,lie,,
to unload a private investigator from his blandly explained that he had picked up'
own payroll and plant him on the, gov- 'the, rumor from.~urce. whom -he:
ernment payroll. refused to .identify.
Feighan has taken over the chairriian- After ? listening to 'the FBI, report,, not,
ship of the House Immigration Subcom- a: single Judiciary 'member supported.
mittee. 'As his $20,000-a-year chief counsel, Feighan'$ , demand to 'put, Corso. on the'
he wants _ the..Jt>zdicaary C~omtee_tp ap-~ public payroll.-,!. i.
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Thurmond, RS. C., the white supremacy;
champion, before latching. on to Feighan.;
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach;
furnished the Judiciary Committee with;
the, FBI report, which -accused Corso of{
!
illegal, But it was so disparaging
that Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N. .,+
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