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...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...
...Destroy This Letter." It was this collection of Klein-Dodd letters that disaffected aides had removed, copied and fed to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Their series of articles accusing the Senator led to the investigation (TIME, July 1). One abrasive letter from Klein in November 1963 upbraided the Senator for not rising to his defense during an investigation of foreign lobbying by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Dodd is a member. "What are you afraid of?" demanded Klein. "Do you consider friendship a one-way street...
...Guess. Mrs. Carpenter, 28, a pretty blonde, testified that two mem bers of Dodd's staff, David Martin and Gerard Zeiller, later surmised that Klein had paid Dodd at least $10,000 for his troubles. Mrs. Carpenter acknowledged that the conversation she had overheard was merely speculation, and Stennis dismissed the testimony as valueless. But Dodd was enraged that Committee Counsel Benjamin Fern had knowingly permitted the statement to come out, announced dramatically that he would request the Justice Department to institute perjury proceedings against Mrs. Carpenter. Subsequently, Martin and Zeiller swore that Mrs. Carpenter's testimony...
Fern read 61 documents into the record, including voluminous correspondence between Klein and Dodd. In December, 1963, Klein complained of canceled West German contracts that had cost him $100,000. Dodd wrote in February: "I believe that I might be more successful with the people in Germany if I talk to them alone...
...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...