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Ward Eurore Item freday 16, 1970
White House Briefings
Anger Pentagon Aides
By ORR KELLY
officials held other full-scale
Star Staff Writer
regional backgrounders for re-
Some high Pentagon offi-
porters and editors in San
cials are furious about a series
Clemente, Calif.; New Orle-
of background sessions with
ans, and Chicago, and smaller
news representatives that the
sessions with executives of at
White House recently conduct-
least two individual newspa-
ed in various parts of the
pers.
country.
The San Clemente and Chi-
One official privately de-
cago backgrounders resulted
scribed the backgrounders as
in major public controversies.
politically motivated and "ir-
During the San Clemente
responsible."
session, an official-since
Another influential Defense
widely identified as Dr. Henry
official, asked about a state-
Kissinger, the top White House
ment made amid scores of
foreign affairs adviser-spoke
newsmen during one of the
of the possibility of ejecting
sessions, pounded on the arm
the Soviet Union from Egypt.
of his chair and exclaimed:
During the Chicago session,
"I'm not going to be bound by
an official-since wildly identi-
any goddam White House
fied as the President
backgrounder!"
himself-was quoted as saying
the U.S. might intervene mili-
Last One in Hartford
tarily in the Jordanian crisis.
Serving to arouse the ire of
these and a number of other
Opposing View Exists
Pentagon officials this week
Although some Pentagon of-
were reports emanating from
ficials say they feel that their
a background session in Hart-
colleagues at the White House
ford, Conn., Monday, when
and State Department should
men who can be identified
stay home and do less talking,
only as administration offi-
that viewpoint is not shared by
cials talked about American
everyone at the Defense De-
shipments of planes and other
partment.
military equipment to Israel.
One veteran public affairs
The feeling of the Pentagon
officer, who has himself ar-
officials is that the Middle
ranged countless background
East situation is delicate
sessions for officials of both
enough without administration
political parties, said he
officials discussing - even on
thought the Nixon administra-
a background basis-arms
tion's meetings with news ex-
shipments to Israel during the
ecutives in various parts of
cease-fire.
the country was a perfectly
The Hartford backgrounder
legitimate method of increas-
was the most recent in the
ing public understanding of
series. Before it, White House
administration polices.
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