CAPITAL COMMENT RUDY MAXA'S DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: February 1, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570043-1
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February 1986
ON PG
Marketing Murder: Last Octo-
ber, terrorists shot and killed
Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-
bound passenger on the cruise
ship Achille Lauro. By Novem-
ber, his widow, Marilyn, was
asking $400,000 from Holly-
wood studios for her cooperation
in a dramatic production.
"We've got five deals pend-
ing," her Los Angeles agent,
Tanya Chasman, said in Janu-
ary. "We have a lot of companies
bidding."
Marilyn Klinghoffer, who
works for a small publisher in
New York, requested that pro-
ducers interested in buying her
cooperation meet with her in
New York. Universal, Lorimar,
the Nederlanders, New World
Productions, Alan Lansburg Pro-
ductions, among others, sched-
uled meetings with Klinghoffer,
who wants to be a consultant.
Not everyone in Hollywood
was thrilled with the marketing of
the Klinghoffer name. "Para-
mount was approached, but I
wouldn't even entertain a discus-
sion," snaps Peter Greenberg,
vice president for Paramount
television.
Footnote: At least five other
passengers on the Achille Lauro
have discussed selling the right to
tell their stories; one couple in-
sisted their nephew be hired to
help in the movie's production.
Kemp Capers? As politicians
begin jockeying for the 1988
presidential race, reporters are
already looking into their person-
al lives. Five years ago, Republi-
can Representative Jack Kemp
was linked on Washington's gos-
sip circuit with Paula Parkin-
son, a curvaceous blonde who
did some lobbying in Republican
circles and was alleged to have
videotaped congressmen during
bedroom romps. Parkinson was
mum about Kemp, and Kemp has
steadfastly denied any relation-
ship with Parkinson.
But recently Parkinson, who
now lives in Texas, has been del-
uged with calls from reporters
from national publications asking
about her past friendship with
Kemp. Parkinson has refused
comment, but told The Washing-
tonian that she is "living a very
different and new life now,"
though "I certainly have very
fond memories of Jack?as well
as other people I knew in Wash-
ington." Undoubtedly the press
will be more curious about those
memories, but as of now, Parkin-
son's reply is "No comment."
CAPITAL
COMMENT
RUDY MAXAS DIARY
William Casey
Woodward's Source?
Bob Woodward
Cozy with Casey?
Paula Parkinson
Fond Memories of Jack
Jack Kemp
Being Targeted
Marilyn Klinghoffer
Selling Her Story
Casey Cooperates: Once, Wash-
ington Post reporter Bob Wood-
ward couldn't get lowly staffers
working for Richard Nixon's re-
election committee to return his
calls. But _today even CIA chief
William Casey is cooperating
with Woodward's book on the
intelligence community.
In recent years, several Wood-
ward scoops in the Post clearly
have come from high-ranking in-
telligence sources. And though
Woodward won't confirm it, Ca-
sey has talked with him for his
latest book. which Simon &
Schuster hopes to publish early in
1987.
"Obviously, whether someone
is talking to me or not is
Roy Cohn
Threatens Lawsuit
I n
not something I want to talk
about," says Woodward. And
the suggestion that his book will
be partly a biography of Casey
draws an "I wouldn't jump to
any conclusions" warning from
Woodward.
Lensman Scoop: Washington
photojournalists who covered the
Reagan-Gorbachev talks in Ge-
neva turned red with anger and
green with jealousy when they
opened the Nation section of
Time magazine to see six pages of
behind-the-scenes photos by
Time contract photographer
David Hume Kennerly.
The photo pack had been told
all coverage was by pool, and
photographers assured their edi-
tors back home no one had an
inside track. But right after the
summit was announced. Kenner-
ly?who had been Gerald Ford's
chief White House photogra-
pher?called a friend in the White
House and asked if Time might
have "something special.?'
The White House agreed.
though when Kennerly arrived in
Geneva, he didn't know what he
would be allowed to shoot. It
turned out he was invited in to
record the first day of the sum-
mit, which was hosted by the
Americans, while his colleagues
stood outside in the cold unaware
that Kennerly was snapping shots
of the two world leaders chatting
by the fire. Kennerly, whose im-
modesty is always tempered by a
sense of humor, explained his
coup this way: "I was just pass-
ing through Geneva and just
popped into the ch?au for a few
snaps."
Cohn Rumor: For several
months, reporters in New York
and Washington debated whether
to publish the rumor that flam-
boyant Manhattan attorney Roy
Cohn suffers from AIDS. Early
in January, the normally staid
Wall Street Journal broke the
press silence.
In the middle of a Helen Dudar
story on the Leisure & Arts page,
the Journal referred to Washing-
ton columnist Nicholas von
Hoffman's $285,000 advance to
write a biography of Cohn.
Though von Hoffman wouldn't
confirm it, the Journal reported
that his book proposal "repeats a
widely circulated rumor that Mr.
Cohn's [terminal illnessi was
caused by AIDS."
Before that story, the media
danced around the issue. As the
Journal noted. "Mr. Cohn has
said he has liver cancer." In one
of two long articles on Cohn in
the Washington Post Style sec-
tion. Margot Hornblower wrote,
"Of what he is dying, no one is
certain. An affidavit from a phy-
sician at Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center refers to a 'life-threaten-
ing disease.' "
If Cohn does have AIDS, he
apparently doesn't feel com-
pelled, as Rock Hudson did, to
make that public. Cohn's law
partner, Thomas Bolan, threat-
ens "a gigantic lawsuit" if
Cohn's illness is linked to AIDS.
though Cohn told the Journal he
had no immediate plans to sue
von Hoffman because, he said.
"why should I glorify him?"
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570043-1