NEVER TALKED TO WYLIE OF MONEY, GODEL SAYS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800120008-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Never Talked fio Wylme'
Of honey, Godel Says
By JERRY KLINE
Star Staff Writer ,? former $17,500-a-year head of
e e es fe pti e Defense Department's
yesterday. , that he never dis
cussed personal financial affair
with, John A. Wylie, with who
he is accused of conspiring t
embezzle government funds.
Aside from business matters
"we were not extensively asso
elated with, each other," he sail
in Alexandria Federal Distric
Court.
In reply to questions by hi
attorney, E. ? Waller Dudley
Godel said:, "I've never dis
cussed my personal financia
affairs with anyone except m
wife."
T h e ` crew-cut defendan
!speaking' in a hoarse voice
i appeared relaxed during fou
hours of testimony. Asked if h
had embezzled any - money, h
!said: "No, sir, I have nave
knowingly taken any of th
government money. except fo
official purposes.,!.
Godel, 43,' a former $20,000-a
y e a r ., Defense Departmen
official, is;charged-wadi miss
udget and finance branch, is
ccused of taking about $90,000,.
r First Defense Witness
GodeI was the first witness for
he defense since The govern.
nt rested its case Thursday:
Under questioning by his attor-
ey and during cross-examina-
ion by Plato Cacheris, first;
ssisbant U. S. Attorney, Godel
nsisted he spent the' govern-
ment'funds for official purposes.
About $5,000 of the money,;
which the government claims he
misappropriated in connection
with la Viet Nam assignment; Explains Statements
was his own, he said. He too
the money from personal funds Cacheris questioned Godel
in his office safe, he said.. - 'about statements be gave to the
Asked why he kept so much 7BI and other investigators and'
cash in hand, he said: "I sup- c h a r g e d that discrepancies
ose it is just an idiosyncrasy of existed between the statements
mine." The money was part of and his testimony.
18,500 which he took to Saigon Godel said he had confused
Maxwell D, Taylor and ~Adtn.Iday. ~
dating back over a dozen years.' said: we nave never beef
The commendations came from members of a country club....
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc- My family and I have always
Namara and the National Civil,sought to live entirely within. my.
Service League. The letters earned salary, ',and we ,,have
were signed by the late Presi-1 done so."
dent Kennedy, FBI Director J.'' The' ross 'examination' by the
E d g a r. Hoover, Ambassadors govemmeht, IIL continue, Mon-
commandations and letters of table home". that cost $47,000
congratulation or appreciation- when it was built' in 1956. He
1961 to set up a secret re-Ivarious, Viet Nam trips when
earch project, he said. , :questioned about them. He also,
Cacheris asked whether the ' said that since ' he was ques-1
otal was unusually large for the tioned about one of the trips, ''I
rip.' have been able to reconstrucd
"It was quite unusual," Godel the event.", I
said. Godel said he and his wife and
Godel submitted in his defense' five daughters "have a comfor4
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