KLEIN WROTE LETTERS FOR DODD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300123-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: February 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Washington Merry-Go-found
By Drew Pearson
and Jack Anderson
Sen. Tom Dodd (D?Conn,),
who flew to West Germany in
1964 to rescue some fat fees
for the Julius Klein public re-
lations firm, is now telling
friends he never carried out
the written instructions he re
ceived from Klein.
'Evidence to the contrary was
supposed to have been de-
auuyeu. nuwever, this column
has seen the evidence, which
is still available in case the
Senate Ethics Committee
should wish to inspect it.
Klein drew up a list of Ger-
man leaders who might influ-
ence the renewal of his con-
tracts, plus detailed instruc-
tions on how to approach each
one. Dodd took these instruc.
tions with him to Germany
and visited nearly everyone on
the list.
Afterward, to make sure the
German leaders were properly
impressed, Klein prepared fol-
low-up letters for the Senator
to sign.
On Aug. 15, 1964, for ex-
ample, Klein wrote a remark-
able letter to his friend in the
Senate. Across the bottom is
scrawled in longhand: "Please
destroy this. letter. I made no
copy.#$
Klein asked. Dodd to' con-.
gratulate Dr. Ludger Westrick
on his promotion to the.West
German cabinet and to add a1
STATINTL
rote Letters for Do
couple of paragraphs of praise
for Klein.
Secret Letter
"To save you time," wrote
Klein helpfully, "I am enclos-
ing herewith a rough draft.
Maybe you want to paraphrase
it and add a little bit about
the President's stand on Viet-
nam, especially since Westrick
is a 100 per cent believer in
your strong policy.
"Both Westrick and Speak-
er McCormack have the same
decoration from the Vatican.
They are good friends. The
Speaker, too, went out of his
way with Westrick to give me
a big boost.
"You remember you met
Westrick at Ambassador Mc
Ghee's party in Bonn and also
again in,. Washington when he
was there , with Chancellor
Erhard. If I am not mistaken,
Mrs. Dodd sat next to West-
rick at the White House af-
fair. Maybe you want to in-
clude her good wishes in your
"Please get the letter out
on Monday', You can say that
you were so burdened with
various foreign relations prob-
lems and are only now trying
to catch up_, with your cor-
respondence . . ."
Dodd's Ghostwriter
Without changing a word,
Dodd transcribed on his Sen-
ate stationery the draft pre-
pared by Klein.
" t was Indeed .a pleasure to
eel you In Bonn.-. and also
recently in Washington,"
Dodd wrote to Westrick on
Sept. 11, 1964, as Klein had
dictated. "I saw General Klein
recently who, as you know,
works hand in hand with all of
us. He has the confidence of
ny Democratic and Republican
colleagues and is especially
close to our leaders.'
"it is for this reason that
we all regretted the distor-
tions in the German press and
the slander which originated
in the press behind the Iron
Curtain as General Klein has
been rendering a great serv-
ice not only to our nation but
also to your country. His ad-
vice has always been most
valuable to us Democrats as
it was and is to his Republi-
can friends."
Back from Westrick came a
reply in German, dated Oct.
17, 1964. Dodd forwarded it to
Klein, who returned it with
"I am sincerely happy and
pleased to receive your con-
gratulations," acknowledged
Westrick. "I was extremely in-
terested in hearing your opin-
ion on General Julius Klein
... Mr. Klein visited me re-
cently, but we have not yet
reached a result that is to his
satisfaction."
The result Klein wanted,
presumably, was to get West.
rick's support for renewal of
his $l50,0004-year contract. To
speed -up the result, Klein
asked the ' Senator .from Con.
a
d
necticut to write still another
letter.
Klein Keeps Pushing
"My dear Tom," wrote Klein
on Nov. 21, 1964, "1 am grate-
ful to you because apparently
your discussion and letter got
the ball rolling again even.
though the matter has not
been settled as yet. At least
I hope it will not be filed and
forgotten.
"Therefore, I am taking the;
liberty of preparing .for your
consideration a draft of a let
ter I wish you would send in'
reply. It will be very helpful
in getting this matter straight.
ened out once and for all."
Senator Dodd mailed this
letter to Westrick, too, word
for word as Klein had written
it for him.
"I note that you had a visit
with General Klein," the let-,
ter stated.
`Purely Unselfish'
my colleagues' friendship and
my desire to underline Gen-
eral Klein's value as adviser.
and counsel is a purely un-,
selfish one, and it is based on'
our feelings that he is an'
understanding bridge between
our countries." i
Thus a United States Sena
for permitted himself to be'
used to persuade a German;
cabinet officer that Julius:
Klein, a registered West Ger-
man agent, had special Influ-i
ence in Washington.
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