JAMES QUAYLE DEFENDS HIS SON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 7, 1989
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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James Quayle, father of the Vice President, used
his speech before the AIM crowd to rip the media VKAN ~V1MT s ~?
for portraying his son as a "skirt-chasing golf nut Date 7 05-T &T
who flunked out of school and burned his draft
card."
During the campaign, he said, the media
became "carriers of Parkinson's disease" when
NBC commentator John Chancellor and others
dredged up the old "scandal" about Dan Quayle's
alleged sexual relationship with lobbyist Paula
Parkinson. There was never anything to those alle-
gations, he pointed out.
Quayle noted that Gail Sheehy had written an
unusual article charging that the Vice President
was a "product" of his father. James Quayle, after
joking about the matter with his wife, pleaded
guilty to this.
Otherwise, he said, the critical article about his
son was "one big pile of Sheehy."
Sophia Casey, widow of the late CIA director,
blasted Bob Woodward of the Washington Post for
two specs is "lies"-that he had a death-bed inter
view with her husband after his brain surer and
that the CIA had a role in a car bombing in Beirut
that killed 80 people which prompted the retalia-
tory hijacking o light 847 and the murder of
Navy diver Robert Stethem.
Leo Damore, author of Senatorial Privilege, de-
scribed how his book about Chappaquiddick re-
ceived virtually no coverage from the "elitist
media" and was subsequently labeled by the Wall
Street Journal as "the best-seller you have never
read about."
Roy Innis, director of the New York-based Con-
gress of Racial Equality, detailed how the media
censor the views of black conservatives, highlight
white-on-black crime (but not the other way
around), and give extravagant attention to radicals
such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
After the speeches, the "retromingent vigilante"
awards were handed out. They are named after a
1978 letter Washington Post Executive Editor Ben-
jamin C. Bradlee had sent to AIM Chairman Irvine.
In the letter to Irvine, Bradlee said, "You have re-
vealed yourself as a miserable, carping, retromin-
gent vigilante, and I for one am sick of wasting my
time in communication with you."
In a toast to Irvine, AIM President Murray Baron
said, "We have made unforgiving enemies and
we're proud of it."
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