THE DODD CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300094-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: April 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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APR 2 4 1966
The Dodd 'ease
Connecticut and his lucrative testimonial dinners-4,
iudemonstrates the imperative need for Congress to
[formulate an ethical code for its members and strict'
i rocedures for enforcing it.
In fairness to Senator Dodd, it is too soon to arrive
irat any definitive judgment until the Senate Committee
cvn. Standards and Conduct carries out a full investiga-
r Yon. There are conflicting stories as to whether the
nte'itimonial diners in his behalf were arranged to
Met his campaign expenses or to supplement his'
lrqfivate inoohte. There are quite enough evils and am
4ubiguities attending ordinary campaign fund raising. '
4,-,But money contributed to a public ,official simply to ,
4,p7Apble him to live on a more lavish scale than his
iiro;alary permits is clearly wrong, Only a complete in
ilrquiry can make clear whether this was true in Senator _
;congress generate' a poisonous smog over the nation's.,
y rpolitical life. Senators Clifford Case of New Jersey,,
h1ti'd Paul Douglas of Illinois have long urged their
1 colleagues to adopt full disclosure rules. ? A - compre-
hensive revision of the almost useless laws regulating
paign fund raising is also needed. These reforms
are essential to. protect : the good name of Congress.,"'
Men jealous'of.'.theii: dwn reputations ought nod to,
crastinate;further ins adopting, thern1. t:4 a ZW +t.?w1f~
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