FULBRIGHT ASKS TEXT ON NIXON'S RUSSIAN TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940097-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: September 21, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 CIA-RDP7
Puibright Asks
Text on Nixon's
Russian Talks
Chairman Fuibright of' the
Senate Foreign Relations Cbtn-
mtttee today asked the Bilte'
Department to release the'fWl
text of Moscow talks last yeatr.
between Vice President Ni"ti
and Soviet Premier ' Khftt-,-
sbchev. C
tq
He declared he has reason
believe that a serlea of news-
paper articles by Ea.l Mhos s
member of the Ws hingtOtt
bureau of the New York Herald
Tribune, who wrote a biography
of Mr. Nixon last year, tend to
put the Vice President 'n too
favorable a light in his verbal
exchanges with Mr. Khru.
ahchev.
Senator I ulbright wrote to j
secretary of state Herter to
protest that the articles"appar-
ently were bawd In part' oni
official state Department tran-
script% which the department
has withheld not only from the .
aeneral public but from the Litter to Tribufl
:'enntk comt3mttee itself, Senator Fiflbriaht also
Different impi'essloal4 .? tl4aUad, a letter he se O t
irons sources priviletred to see and prestoen+.v+ v- ?,?
the transcripts," Senator Ful- . Herald Trio lT 'failure of thl
t
- the f .?
bright wrote, "I understand the s elated. tha
full flavor to somewhat different # state Department ho the
from the tmpressien conveyed j
'ill the articleii--Rpecifically-,
that the complete text leaves
small doubt thac the Soviet
Premier maintained the con-
trol of the course of -the inter-
-change, with the Vice President
in the position. of giving de-
tee gives "noAnsata W i v
ion of ? ? rThtotya obm-
i
op
n
,
petence-swept ? through 41
ba.ter's aliswers. I do not know',. to, y r. readers_ arty
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The ArKansae emvcae
wrote Mr. Herter that the ~? eea4sRri. I h - ' much
.._.. _ _.....,, coulA 41f t. fhe Herald Tribune will
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Table this was par ticuaa a
.? a1?tr7 suable became at least soSte atjd urge that the Dep
ts appa>kea1t19 a Baste rele e` the full
scri
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p
n
of th. tr
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were Moan to Mr. Mato with- gpunt of the Nihon-Kt us
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enerally it
g
the press. .- ____
"You mu.-t al'preelate pa I, made public, the Herald Tribune
do," Senator Fulbright added, will publlih them In full, thus
the question of .propriety irk-~? enabling the people to judge
s
volve In permitting ax perte for themselves Mr? Nixon's
use of docuudfjnt;ft' Of a govern- ability In d'aling with W.
public domain "
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940097-4