'75 HOUSE STUDY CITED V. WESTY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: December 4, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
4 December 1984
~S House study
cited v. Westy
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By ROBERT CARROLL and FRANK LOMBARDI
A lawyer defending CBS a~ ainst a $120 million libel suit
s arr es era wit re ire en. i iam Westmoreland
over w ether .ante igence ana ysts a engage m _ a
deceptive "numbers game" uring the Vietnam ~'ar. ,
The lawyer, David Boies, Boies introduced the anti-
asked Westmoreland if he cles as proof that Westmore-
agreed with the conclusions land's reputation had been
of a congressional .probe con- under fire prior to the airing
ducted in 1975 by Otis Pike, of the CBS program in Janu-
then a Long Island repre? ary 1982
sentative. Pike had found
that "the validity" of intelli ~ ~ Through his questions,
Bence numbers used during j Boies also noted that Nguyen
thb Vietnam War had been Ky, the former prime minis-
, "significantly dubious." j ter. of South Vietnam, had
"I do not agree," ' -written a book in 1976 char-
Westmoreland reponded as , .Bing "that some of the Amer-
he spent another day being ican leaders in Saigon de-
cross-examined by Boies at ~ . liberately issued a string of
the trial in Manhattan Feder- lies to the. White House in an
al Court. `-" effort to maintain the im-
The trial, which goes into- pression that the Americans
its ninth week today, stems were getting on top of the
from a suit Westmoreland Viet Cong."
filed against CBS over a 1982 In his prior testimony at
television documentary that' the ~~, Westmoreland de?
accused him of quashing re Hied ever lying about the ~
pocks of growing enemy enemy's strength to any of
strength in 196? when he his superiors.
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commanded the- U:S:"`forces r: _ _,..~.--- ~ . _ .
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CBS MAINTAINED the`
higher figures would have`
contradicted Westmoreland's
claims that his troops were..''
beginning to make- a-dent in=
the war. "-
. At yesterday's session,,,
Boies ~ -also-~ questioned>
Westmoreland about critical;
newspaper ~- and magazine'
articles that had been written:
about the general in. the.''
aftermath of .the, in~~estiga?
tion by Pike's House Select"'
Committee on Intelligence.'
Westmoreland said he hadn't-
been aware of the articles.
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