ANYBODY FOR COPS AND ROBBERS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300111-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: March 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
Sanitized - Approved For eR '. G 1* 75-0014
MAR 3 0 1966
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By Drew Pearson'
"Everybody's Doing It" used
to be the name of a ragtime
tune referring to a popular
dance, the turkey trot. Today
Everybody is
1dancing t h i s
,dance today.
I its chief critic,>
Ralph Nader.
i
y u u- s it o e
ng rearson
the grandson
of a former?Secretary of State.
Frances B. Knight, chief' of
the passport division, who
signed this order, says her
boss in the State Department
is gumshoeing 'on her.
Rep. Irving Whalley, the
Pennsylvania Republican,
wants the FBI to gumshoe on
Mme for telling how he sent
Republicans teakwood ele-
phants that he said were pur-
chased`in India, when he real-
ly got them from a Republican
committee bargain sale in
Washington.
The Justice Department is
gumshoeing Jack Anderson
and me for allegedly stealing
documents from Sen. Thomas
Z-Dodd (D-Conn.).
Sen` B1r(T-in turn, has re-
tdiii a private detective, with
the reported cooperation of
U.S..Court of, Appeals Judge
Irving I{aufman of Newloragent and gave the same as-
to gumshoe non" us. surances.
Bath in North Carolina Shadowing Private Eye
And the other day I got a ' Meanwhile, since everybody'
phone call,from two friends in else was doing it, Jack Ander-
Reidsville, N.C., that an agent son decided to do some gum-
friendly to Son. Dodd, had shoeing ourselves on the pri-
called to gumshoe on a bath- vate eye sent from New York
ing incident in 1915 when I to shadow us.
was arrested at 3 a.m, for .. He is James A. Lynch of
taking a sponge bath near the
Southern Railway yards after
working all night striking a
chautauqua tent. .
It is an . incident I have
written . about several itmes
and has become quite a jo~e
in North Carolina. I was even
invited, back to Reidsville by
the Chamber of Commerce to
celebrate the occasion.
Nevertheless; C: L. Oliver,
publisher of the Reidsville Re-
view, was cross-examined by a
friend of qen. Dodd's as to
where he could get a copy of a
1915 newspaper describing the
incident. Unfortunately, they
r
d d f
t
b
3005. Johnson pl., Wantagn,
Long Island, a big man in his
late 40s with reddish hair and
ample girth whom Jack found,
to have registered at the Fair-
fax Hotel and next day re-
ported to Sen. Dodd.
Detective Lynch used Dodd's
office as a base of operation
and began interviewing wit-
nesses. Some of them com-
plained that . he had passed
himself off as a Federal agent,
others that he had threatened
them, that he said he, was
working for Judge Irving
Kaufman of the U.S. Court of
Appeals, and had warned one
witness that Sen. Dodd would
get him fired if he did not
cooperate.
re
orye 1LL a
een es
had
a long time ago. Mr. Oliver Grilling Private Eye
assured the Dodd agent, how- After some preliminary In-
ever, that the newspaper, if vestigation of Dodd's investi-
available, would have clearly',gator, Anderson telephoned
showed I was 'acquitted, and the investigator direct. He
,that there was nothing sinister first told Lynch that he had
misty' morning 51 years ago")
an FBI' agent. ',This Lynch
denied, saying he had always
identified himself as a private
detective before talking to
Lynch also denied that he;
had threatened anyone or told ,
one witness Dodd would have
him fired.
"How is it," asked Anderson,
"that three witnesses tell
different story?"
Lynch offered no explana
tion.
"Isn't it true that you used
Judge Kaufman's name in ap-;
.proaching these witnesses?"
Anderson asked.
"No," replied Lynch.
"Well, these witnesses had
never hear. of Judge Kauf-.j
man until ou brought up his
name. How do you think they
got the name? Do. you think''
they made it up out of the %
blue?"
"I may have mentioned%
Judge Kaufman's name,"
Lynch admitted.
Judge Kaufman Is a close?1
friend of Dodd's. Incidentally,:
he once asked me to help him
get 'appointed to the U.S. Dis-'
trict Court in New York.
"What are you doing here?"`~
Anderson asked Lynch. "'Are: f
you trying to intimidate the,
witnesses against Dodd?" s
"I don't intend to tell you,'
replied Lynch.
Thus goes the gumshoe'
dance of "Everybody's Doing;
It" in Washington. The 'most.,
interesting phase of the dance'
is the Justice Department's in-',
vestigation of Anderson and;
me; which Will be described in`
an early column.
? 1966, Bell-McClure Brpd1cate, Inc.`
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