FULBRIGHT REGRETS HIS 'BROTHEL' AND 'ARROGANCE' REMARKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200900040-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 17, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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MAY 17 1966
CPYRGHT
By GARNETT D. HORNER
star Sbatf Writer
Sen. J. William Fulbright,
D-Ark., said today that he.1
regrets saying in a May 5
speech that "Saigon has be-
come an American brothel."
In fact, the chairman of the
Senate Foreign I;elations'.
Committee told a National
Press Club luncheon, he
regrets several things he has , .
[said in recent weeks "not
;because of the. meaning I
attached to them, but because?
`they 'lent theinselves.to inter- i
bretations I did not intend."
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