'COMPLETE TRUTH' PLEDGED BY PARK AT HOUSE PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600170034-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 3, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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ARTICLE APPEARED 3 March 1978
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y Parr at I-douse robe
associsted Press _ ?, .- he nave campaign contributions only'
he is:.. becoming increasingly evasive-` to help . in his business deal-
with House;_investigators., about al ings
legedYefforts to buy influence in Con- Park walked over to reporters after
gress ,: r f r ` ' questioning yesterday to deny that he
"I .may tsound -evasive, but that is was being evasive. But, as, he has all
not my intention," Park-said. "My de- week, he refused to answer questions'
sire is to tell the-complete truth." on specific allegations.
Several members of: the Committee. He said the committee investiga-
on Standards of :Official Conduct, in- tors' questions "continue to be very :.
eluding Reps. Bruce Caputo in-... A., tough:
and Millicent Fenwick .(R-N.J ), said . - . `A "witness does not like to face"-
after:-;Wednesdays closed door gues- such tough "questions," Park said, "but
tioniiig that-Park' Was increasingly I'm glad they are being tough. so once
evasive and sometimes angry.. and for all we can- get the trouth out"
Another, member . said Park,was .par The question of whether Park was a
titularly evasive' about whether he South: Korean- agent is important be-
tried to buy influence in Co'ngress`as cause the Constitution prohibits mem-
an agent =for-the-. South. Korean gov- bers of Congress from_ taking money
ernment and' not.. simply- to help his from a foreign agent. But until. 1974, it
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