WILL ASK AGENT FOR AL DATA ON 17 SENATORS

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1966
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17 Senators
Dodd's ? Lawyers
Seeking to Show.
Widespread: Case
By ROBERT WALTERS
Star staff Waiter
The Senate Ethics Commits
tee's investigation of miscon
duct ~ charges ' ' against Sen.
Thomas J. Dodd'. appeared today
to be ' widening' to ' include a
probe of the. support sought
from at least 17 other senators
by foreign business agent Julius
Klein..
. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R- i
Utah, committee vice-chairman,
said a tentative agreement had
been reached. to .require that
Klein produce all his corres-
pondence with the other senators
when he testifies on his relation-
ship with Dodd.
The committe so far has'
brought out correspondence in
volving six past or present
members .of the Senate-Everett
M. Dirksen, R-Ill.; 'then- Sen.
Hubert ' Humphrey,- ? D-Minn.;
Wayne Morse, D-Org.; than-Sen.
Barry - M.. Goldwater, R-Ariz.;
Stuart Symington, D-Mo., and
Jacob Javits, R-N.Y,
Klein's alleged efforts to in-
fluence other senators were em-
phasized yesterday by Dodd's
attorneys, who sought to show
that the Connecticut Democrat
had done -nothing more for Klein
than' congressional colleagues.
That defense was one of
,several used by Dodd's lawyers
to counter charges that the
senator misused his, office by
traveling to Germany in.1964 to
help Klein retain several busi-
ness accounts.
Agent for West Germans
'?' -Klein, a Chicago public rela-
tions' man, ) is a registered
foreign agent for'.West. German'
business interests,
Klein was one of severel men
invdstigated during a 1963
Senate 'Foreign Relations probe
of foreign agents.
Newspaper columnists Drew
Pearson and - Jack Anderson
have charged that- Dodd acted
as an "errand boy" for Klein,
who sought senatorial. support to
b 1 ter his image among Ger.
officials. ,' ;; I,; In_.._January,' 1964,, Klein'sl d a>West-German Chan
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man government and industrial in my behalf."
cellor Ludwig Erhard, be quote
from a Humphrey letter which
said:
. Julius Klein has more
friends in the Senate and the
House of Representatives than
any man I know. We respect his
partisanship, but even more we
cherish his friendship."
In a telegram to Dodd, Klein's
brother, Max, said: "Your
colleagues have been cooperat-
ing splendidily.
Just before Dodd embarked
on his trip, Klein sent another
telegram which referred to two
Senate leaders by their first
names only:
"I discussed with Everett the
possibility of France inviting
top members of Congress to the
D-Day celebrations. Everett will
see the President tonight and by
now must have taken (the)
matter up with Hubert."
The letters from which those
quotes came were introduced by
Benjamin R. Fern, the commit-
tee's chief counsel. Later in the
day John F. Sonnett, one of four
attorneys representing Dodd,
introduced other correspond-
ence.
That consisted of letters from
17 senators, all apparently
solicited for support by Klein
after the Foreign Relations
Committee hearings.
Some senators responded with
a noncommittal note, others
praised Klein briefly and still,
others lauded him extensively
and offered suggestions to
resolve his problems.
Bennett then suggested that.
"when Klein comes before us,
he be asked to bring us all of
the correspondence he has had
with these senators whose
names have been mentioned, as'
well as correspondence during
this period with Sen. Dodd."
Bennett later told reporters
that 'he and Sen. John C. Sten-
nis, the committee chairman,
had tentatively agreed to re-
quire Klein to produce the
documents.
In testimony yesterday,
James P. Boyd Jr., Dodd's
former top aide, said the sena-
tor's ostensible reason for
making the German trip was "a
cover-up and no more."
When he left for Europe,
Dodd said he planed to inter-
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Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., relaxes with
a pipe while the Senate Ethics Committee
probes charges of misconduct against him.
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say "when Sen. Javits visited
But. two sets of documents Germany about a week or ten
introduced yesterday, the corn- days ago, he brought greetings
mittee's first, day of open hear- to our German friends from his
ings, showed that Klein claimed Republican colleague, Sen. Dirk-
support ; from many senators sen."
other than Dodd. in mid-February, Dodd wrote
The first . set, consisted 'of Klein to say that it would be
letters and cables from Klein to difficult to leave Washington
Dodd, written after the Foreign that month because the civil
Relations Committee hearings rights bill of 1964 was pending
had closed ' but before Dodd in .the Senate.
made his German trip. Klein' said that if he had
In 'December, 1963, Klein known Dodd's German trip
wrote Dodd that "when I next would be delayed, "I would
see you I will show you the file have asked either Sen. Hum-
of letters that I' received from phrey or Sen. Symington to
your colleagues. I know that you make a quick trip here on a
will. be happy . to learn 'that weekend to speak on behalf of
every one was similar in tone to their Democratic colleagues,
the one that you wrote." just as Javits did for Dirksen
In the same letter, Klein said and other of his Republican
he had written to Barry Gold- colleagues."
water and. enclosed a copy of As the date of Dodd's trip
"the letter that Barry wrote me
a few 'weeks ago when the
distortions. in the press first
started."
Klein added.
"Dirksen and Barry are fully
posted, ' but' what' pleased me
very much more was that such
liberals like Hubert Humphrey,
Morse and Symington spoke out
approached, Klein sent him a view Bogdan Stashinskiy, a
political informer,
memo naming the German Russian
officials to be seen on Klein'sII secret agent and assassin who
behalf and indicating whatidefected to West Berlin in 1961.
should be said to each man. Dodd said the trip was made
_'I for the Senate Internal Security
suggestion to "let Jack Javits
brief you again, also Dirksen,
Humphrey, Morse and Syming-
ton," .
Klein 'suggested' that when
Subcommittee, which he head-
ed. The senator was accompa-
nied by David Martin, an aide
described by Bo 7d Boyd the area of
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not known of the proposed
Stashinskiy interview until "a
,day or two before the trip,"
Dodd's attorneys attempted to
show that Boyd would not be
ekpected to know the purpose 1
of the trip because it was not in
his area of expertise.
But Boyd said "the purpose
that was declared to me by the
senator was to help Julius
Klein."
The former $22,900-a-year aide
also said "there couldn't have
been a less opportune time
because of the fact that the
Senate was engaged in a filibus-
ter on the civil rights legislation
of 1964."
The votes of all Northern and
Western senators were needed
to pass the bill and "there
couldn't have been a time when.
he (Dodd) was more needed on'
the floor and less needed inl
Europe," Boyd-added.
But Dodd's attorneys intro-
duced a letter written Tuesday
. by Humphrey, who was major-
ity whin of the Senate in 1964,
saying he had assured Dodd two
years ago "that your brief ab-
isence would not injure our posi-
tion."
Boyd also testified that Dodd
"gave luncheons for people
whom Klein identified as person-
ally close to him." Boyd added:
P "Klein repeatedly sent to
Dodd material which be wanted
shim (Dodd) to incorporate in
speeches, letters and messages.
On some occasions, this materi-
~al was incorporated verbatim,
On other, parts of it were used..
Other Limes, It was disregard-;
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 The charges by Mr. Pearson
and Mr. Anderson against Mr.
Dodd, published in their syndi-
cated column "Washington
Merry-Go-Round," led to the
Ethics Colnm,ttee investiga-
tion. The Inquiry Is the first
such case td carne before the
two-year-old corrnnittee and the
first investigation of a Seflator
since the censure proceelylings
against the late Senator Jdseph
1R. McCarthy, Republican of
Abraham. A. Ribicoff, Demo-
crat of Connecticut; Hugh Scott,
Republican of Pennsylvania;
John Sparkman, Democrat of
Alabama; . Stuart Symington,
Democrat of Missouri, and John
J. Williams, Republican of Del-
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Mr. Sonnett. described. the let-.
ters as "expressing regret at
any unfair treatment of General
Klein In the Fulbright :hear-
Ings" He did not say, however,
that the letters were in response
to letters from Mr. Klein bitter
ly complaining of the way the
hearings were conducted and of,
some press accounts of them.
At that point ,Senator Wal-?
lace F. Bennett, Republican of:
Utah, broke in to say that Mr.;
Sonnett ' was. giving an "cr-i
roneous impression". by reading;
off the names.
? Senator Bennett ? told repor-1
ters that all of. the letters ex-
cept two were "polite acknowl-
edgements" of Mr. Klein's letter.
The exceptions, he said, were
from. Senators Morse and Hum-
phrey.
Mr. Bennett said that Mr.
Klein's purpose In eliciting let-
ruffled witness under sharp
cross-examination by John F.
Sonnett, one of four lawyers for
Senator Dodd in the huge, pan-
eled hearing roo,rn of the Senatd
Appropriations Committeot.
The room, nearly the size of
a half a football field, wnt3
filled with spectators,
Senator Dodd sat with crossed
legs at the head of the 30-foot
long witness table, glancing
occasionally 9,t his former top
assistant and reflectively smok.-
in a pipe. He said nothing-
t0-day.
'Up to Senator Dodd'
It remained unclear whether!
Mr. Dodd would take the wit-
ness chair at some later time.
He has said he is "at the call of
the committee." But the com-
mittee chairman, John Stennis,
Democrat of Mississippi, has
said repeatedly that "it Is up
to Senator Dodd" whether he
testifies or not. The committee
will not summon him.
Late In the day Mr. Sonnett
introduced as an exhibit a plas-
tic folder containing a number
of letters from other Senators
to Mr. Klein, all of them written
after the general's appearance
as a witness before the Foreign
Relations Committee on .May
14, 1963, during the committee's
lnquiry. ? into the activities of
foreien neents. '
ters from the Senators was "to
build up the feeling hehAd uni-
versal support" He added that,
thl,s was Mr. Sounett's.purposei
alFn,
The key point in dispute to-
day was the purpose of Senator
Dodd's trip to Germany on April
6 to 12, 1984. "I thought therel
couldn't have been a time when!
he was more needed on the floor,
Find less needed In Europe," Mr.?
Boyd told the committee in a.
Doti, New England accent. ' ,
Under questioning by Benja-1
min R. Vern, the committee's
chief counsel, he recalled a con-'
versatlon with the Senator on+
the timing of the trip.
"He told ' me that he under,
stood It was a bad time to go,"
Mr. Boyd testified, "but he said
'I have to go'. He said 'Julius
has been pressing me and press-
ing me to go'. He said 'I have
resisted him but he Insists, and
I like Julius. He Is a good
friend. I want to help him, and
you know how he is, I will be
back as quickly As I can." i
Mr..Sonnett Introduced a let-,
ter to Senator Dodd from Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey,
dated June 21, 1908-yesterday,;
It said that Mr. Humphrey re-
called that In March, 1964, he!
had absolved Senator Dodd in;
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-Democrat of Tennessee; urke
B. Hickenlooper, Republican of
Iowa; Hubert H. Humphrey,
Democrat of Minnesota; Henry
M. Jackson, Democrat of Wash-
Ington; Jacob K. Javits, Repub-
lican of New York; Kenneth B.
Keating, Republican of New
the _-Washington York; Edward V. Long, Demo-
DDDD ~~ LINKED lumni crat of -Missouri; Russell Long,
columnists. Democrat of Louisiana; Thrus-
Mr. Boyd testified that Mr. ton B. Morton Republican of
ate had left n at Kentucky; Wa~ne Morse, Dem-
the heigfilibuht ofster the the' April against lon 1964
theocrat of Oregon; n; Karl E. Mundt,'
l o PLEA BY ~~i L+I Sen Dodd
Republican of South Dakota;
Ex-Aide Testifies Senator
..Went to Germany In '64,
to Save a Contract
civil rights bill, of which he was
a floor manager, because of
"more. than a dozen communi-
cations, repeated phone calls,
and personal visits" from Mr.
Klien, "all with one theme:"
"That Mr. Klein had'lost con-
tracts, that he needed to be bol-
stered, to have his image refur-
bished in Germany, and that
Senator Dodd should come to
Germany and visit dignitaries
there, telling them. that General
Klein was not Iii disfavor, that
he was doing a good job for
Germany and th~.t he enjoyed
great respect in the Senate."
? By BEN A. FRANKLIN
1 SpecISl to The New Yort Thne9
WASHINGTON, June, . 22
Senator Thomas J. Dodd was
said in ',open testimony to-
day to have made a trip to
West- Germany in 1964 under
"'cover" of official business to
help salvage a ;150,000-a-year
contract for Julius Klein, a.
'Chicago public relations man
,who had. pleaded for his help.
The Senate Ethics Commit-
tee was also told that Mr. Klein,
!a retired Army Reserve major
.general who is how it registered
agent for West German business
interests, provided Senator Dodd
Today, Mr. Boyd was an nn-
with virtually unlimited use of
)his "luxurious suite" on the 17th
floor of the Essex House in
New. York City,, ft favor the
Senator' accepted "on an aver-
;age of qnce or twice a month-"
This testimony, on the first
day , of ,public hearings
on charges of miscoqduct
against Mr? Dodd, Deiocrat? of,
Connecticut, came from James
P. Boyd Jr.,~ the Senator's Iorm-
er administrative assistant.
i, Mr. Boyd, ,37 years old, left
Senator Dodd's staff In May,;
1985, He is how, the . Senator'si
chief accuser, and, by.his own
testimony, .the leader of a group
of foul' former' staff aides In
'Mr,.' Dodd's ' ?Vadhington office
Who gave Copies ' of" thousand
df documents In,, the Senatotile
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