THOROUGH DODD CASE PROBE ASSURED BY SENATE UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300115-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: March 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 2 2 1966
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By JACIC STEELE
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
Members of the Senate Ethics
Committee reported today that
it is conducting a thoro "fact-
finding" investigation of charges
involving Sen. Thomas J. Dodd
(D., Conn.). The inquiry
probably will continue for
several months.
The bipartisan Committee is
looking into:
o Son. Dodd's alleged close
asssociations with retired Maj.
i Gen. Julius Klein, a Chicago
public relations man and
registered foreign agent for a
group of West Gorman indus-
trialists.
o Published charges that San.
Dodd has diverted campaign
contributions to his personal
use.
DENIALS
Sen. Dodd has issued general
denials of those charges and has
submitted to the Committee
detailed, but undisclosed,
answers to them.
-The Connecticut Senator
himself asked the Committee to
investigate charges by
columnists Drew Pearson and
Jack A, n.d e, r s o n which they
claimed were based on letters
and other documents in Sen.
Dodd's office files.
LEARNED
It was learned, from
authoritative sources that the
Committee has:
o Decided to go to "original I
sources" to determine the
accuracy and validity of all the
charges made against Sen. Dodd
o Borrowed several
investigators from the General
.Accounting Office to augment
its one~man staff.
The Committee also is
investigating how material from
Sen Dodd's files way "t ak~rl"
to Mr. Pearson and Mr. Ander-
son.
Several Committee members,,*
while asking not tobe identified,
indignantly denied tliaCit flans
to "brush off" the case.
HEARINGS" ...... , f
They predicted that the
Committee eventually will hold
hearings.
UitimatelyL they said the..
Committee viVtUally .ts r6ain
to bile ...,pu l c. , report.orl bhe'}
ingwiry, with the Senate
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