CITES CALLS TO DODD AND OTHERS

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
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• Publication Date: June 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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room. Workmen were ham- :Dodd's lawyer, -John . u. .
mering nearby, distracting a' Sonnet:t, immediately inter-,
i~witness favorable to Dodd. ''ruptcd. A procedural discus-i
Dodd sion followed over the ad er,s
110 Prearranged? sibility of Mrs. ' Carpenter's
"I hope this wasn't prear statement about the $10,000
ranged," Dodd blurted. . . . a comment she said she
A d Omen "I object to that," Bennett' by 'Martin, rather than joke"
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replied. Bennett and Commit-'fide accusation. j
Senator Accuses tee Chairman John Stennis (D- Sonnett demanded that:
buked Dodd'Mari,in and Zeiller be called!
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his E-,-Secretary for his statements about Fern. at once to refute her state-I
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Y motives of the counsel, im" ,I don't think this would'
gns the motives of the Cora- "I allowed to take place in'
By Richard Harwood
tmitee niece," said Stennis.
Washington Post staff writer Bennett added: "I hope no any forum; and I think as a
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The former manag
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foreign agent Julius Klein s! the Committee and its coun? be called in here. immediately . a
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Washington office told the , ael." and put under oath. Otherwise' . ? -a'....
Senate Ethics Committee' The uproar over "perjury" 1over the news wires this after-' James P. Boyd Jr.,,former
yesterday that Klein exerted: was the result of Mrs. Carpen- noon is going to go. this false administrative a s s i s t a n t to
ter's testimony about Dodd's hood. Now I think it is a mat-. Dodd, testified Wednesday
persistent pressures on Sen. ter of fundamental fairness I. that Dodd made the trip on
trip to Germany in April, 1964. atn entitled to that. Klein's behalf, although his
'Thomas J. Dodd (D Conn.) Prior to the trip, she said, I? "I think," Dodd added, "the;
ostensible purpose w as to
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other Senators
there were numerous calls, American people will think so' gather information for the
mote his business interests as and cablegrams from as well and I am going to ask Senate Subcommittee - on In-
in the, Attorney Generall ternal Security on a Commu-
in Germany. Klein or Miss Batherson on p r o c e e d with a perjuryl
"Senator Dodd was not the. the subject of Dodd's German charge." nist assassin named Stashyn-
.only Senator involved," said. Visit, In addition, she said, , There was a burst of ap- skit'.
Kenneth Buchanan of Klein's blouse in the room. ! Mrs. Carpenter testified that
Helen Batherson. "He asked Washington staff brought to { She thought Dodd made the
Stennis at first ruled that `
several Senators to do the: Dodd's office a thick folder Mrs. Carpenter's statement trip for both reasons-to get
same thing ... . because he containing propaganda from!would be stricken from the information for the Subcom-
had lost favor with his Ger-':Klein, letters of praise he had (record. He then tentatively 'mittee and to help Klein. An-
man clients ..." solicited from other Senators,; agreed to call Martin and, other former secretary In the
and instructions to Dodd on' Zeiller at once, but, changed Senator's office, Terry Golden,
Miss Batherson described told the Committee she knew
how to deal with Klein s his mind. Still later, it was
how Klein called "repeatedlyy"friends" in Germany. decided that Mrs. Carpenter's nothing about the purpose of
day and night to pressure'. When Dodd returned, she testimony would stay in the'' the trip but had overheard
~ to !said, his staff assistant, David! record. Martin remark one day that
someone d something for- Zeiller took the stand after he was worried about Dodd's;
brim" a cone , in nDodd's case,CMarttn, who had. gone to Ger?,
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;underwrote luncheons, provid?!many with the Senator, dis-lunch to deny that he had' relationship with Klein and
ed the Senator with the free cussed the trip in her pres?lever had the conversation! had warned the Senator about
use of a suite' in the Essex,ence with Gerald Zeiller, an-. a with Martin described by Mrs, it.
other Dodd assistant: Carpenter, although he re-: Miss Batherson, who ran
House in New York, and sup- membered. a discussion of the Klein's Washington o f f i c e
plied him with detailed in-! "Mr. Martin was dis briefing memos supplied to. from 1963 until last Novem-
pstruction on how to promote i cussing the memos. t!lat Dodd by Klein. ! ber, told of "Innumerable"
3iaein's interests in Germany,had come from Klein 's office,
Zeiller said the memos were calls from Klein to Dodd ask-
(in 1964. and from the way lie talked I ?extremely heavy, handed, !rig the Senator "to intervene
believe that-he said that "overdone," "self-serving" and to, promote (Klein's) image ...
Perjury Charged Senator Dodd had taken them,,'terrible," in regard to clients he had
Her testimony before the with him to Germany and that' . Martin said he "exploded lost as a result of the Foreign
Ethics Committee came on a, he,had referred to them .. ? when lie read Klein's instruc- Relations hearings."
day largely dominated by, and that Mr. Martin was very Lions to Dodd. He assured the Klein, she said, "is very per-
Dodd himself. Shortly before ' concerned about it because he Committee he had had no dis?., suasive." She said he collected
! the noon recess he rose dra- was afraid that, you know, they cussion with Zeiller of the: letters of praise from Sena-
! matically. in the hearing room briefcase might get lost or'kind Mrs. Carpenter related.'' tors and used them to impress
to accuse his former personal somehow they would' f a 1 I' Outside the hearing room' his clients, Klein also got Sen-
Isecretary, Majorie Carpen, into the hands of someone Mrs. Carpenter said; "I'll be'ators to put into the Congres.
ter, of perjury, unfriendly, and' he thought it glad to take a lie detector sional Record articles publi-
Hc then accused the Corn- 'would cause trouble." test." citing his entertainment of
tnittee c o u n s e l , Benjamin And he said that Senator Despite these . distractions, foreign clients. Thousands of
.Fern, of treating him "un- (Dodd had mentioned General the Committee stuck to' its reprints were then sent out to
fairly." Kleins name to all Uhe Ger?, main theme in the present these clients, Miss Batherson
d with- man officials they had visited phase of its inquiry into ails- said.
Later drew the in the thege day y against Dodd pith- 'and they were in Germany,; conduct charges against Dodd: She said Dodd was one of
asked Attorney General Kat? and he said, I wonder how; Did he "abuse" his position several Senators who were
much General Klein paid Sen.; as a Senator by going to Ger? urged by Klein to use his,
zenhaeh to seek a perjury in. ator Dodd to do that.' And many to help Klein's public suite in the Essex House inI
dictment against Mrs. Carpen? Mr. Zeiller . said, 'Oh, I: relations firm win back or re-New York. Two other EasexI
Let', and had a run-in with have known. General Klein tain clients disenchanted by House guests of Klein, she
the vice chairman of the Com- ' for a long time' . and he the disclosure of Klein's activ- said, have "passed on."
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She told reporters later that U.S. for wheat sales to Eastern
she was referring to the late I Europe: "I don't need any
Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), lecture from the German Am?
and the late Sen. Estes Ke-I bassador."
fauver (D-Tenn.). In his letter of February 6,
Dodd used the suite once a1D64, Humphrey sympathizddi
month on the average, she-with Klein because of the bad
said. ? - I . publicity he received fronr the
In preparation of Dodd's Foreign Relations hearings
trip to Germany in 1964, Miss, and said the hearings actually
Batherson said, Klein sent the showed that "you have done
Senator a 'public relations.
,a very good job of represent
packet containing letters froming your clients. Furthermore,,
(numerous members of Con-1 those hearings ' and reports'
gross including Sen. Hubert I reveal that you have a host of
Humphrey before he became friends in the Congress .
Vice President., .Im both political parties ...."
There were two Humphrey Other laudatory letters put
letters. One,,dated January 10, into the record yesterday were
1964, saluted Klein as my1 written by Sen. Wayne Morse;
dear friend Julius" and gavel (D-Oregon), Sen. Abraham,
Klein permission ,to ,show this Ribicoff (D-Conn,), Sen, Karl'
letter to anyone you please Mundt (R-S.D.), Sen. Stuart
including the representatives Symington (D-Mo.), former
of the German government." Sen. Kenneth Keating (R?N.Y.)
In . this letter, Humphrey and Sen. Jacob.Javits (R-N.Y.)
apologized for not replying'tcr~
three previous letters of Klein,
saying, "I just didn't think
you needed a letter. . I
can't quite believe that it is
necessary to give a personal
testimony again and again as
to our friendship land as to my
respect for you. You have that)
in writing many times and,; ou'
have the demonstration of
such respect by many personal'
acts on my part."
Humphrey complained to!
Klein about a letter In "very(
'poor taste" from ' German;
Ambassador Heinrich Knapp-I
,stein Who;; shad criticized the
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