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Though he assured the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that he had "nothing to hide," Thomas Dodd had a lot to explain. Defending himself before six of his peers last week against charges of misconduct, the senior Senator from Connecticut lengthily and indignantly denied any wrongdoing. Taken at face value, his testimony bared instead an unexpected streak of naivet...
...Senator conceded his liking and respect for Julius Klein, a Chicago-based lobbyist and public relations man whose clients include West German interests. Their relationship, focal point of the ethics committee's initial sessions, was recorded in a voluminous correspondence that Dodd had kept in unlocked files...
...outset, the committee had granted Dodd the right to call his own witnesses and cross-examine hostile witnesses. His chief lawyer, John Sonnet, sought to justify the trip to Germany as a legitimate mission on behalf of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. David Martin, who had accompanied the Senator to Germany, testified that Dodd had in fact interviewed a defected Soviet agent. Martin acknowledged, however, that barely seven hours of the six-day trip were spent on the defector's case and that Dodd discussed Klein with Konrad Adenauer...
...Social Relationship." Sonnet also questioned the motives of the quartet that conspired against Dodd. It was brought out that Boyd and Mrs. Carpenter are both divorced, have had a "social relationship," were both fired on Dec. 7, 1964, and made their decision to expose Dodd later. O'Hare, 30, acknowledged that Miss Golden, 23, an attractive redhead, is his "girl friend," and that he did not commit himself fully to helping Boyd until after she had been dismissed last October. Time ran out at week's end, before Dodd, at his own request, could take the witness chair...
...charge was also made by Pearson and Anderson, and is now being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. Dodd, meanwhile, has brought a $2,000,000 libel suit against the columnists...