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Wallace report deceives Americans;
witness identifies Vietnamese leader
ike Wallace, the super
sleuth of CaS' "60 Minutes,"
stepped out of his usual
role as prosecutor earlier this
year and became defense counsel
for Nguyen Cao Ky, the former
prime minister of South Vietnam.
We had accused Ky of being the
"godfather" of a Vietnamese or
ganized crime mob preying on
refugees who escaped their un
happy homeland and made it to
the United States.
Jack Anderson
and Joseph Spear
In the course of defending Ky,
Wallace told his vast Sunday night
audience that "Anderson's story
and others like it that focus on
crime in the Vietnamese refugee
community are distortions and
ignore the fact that most Viet
namese are law-abiding, hard
working and grateful to the
United States for giving them a
home."
This was not only a distortion
of what we had reported, but it
ignored the fact that we had
emphasized that most Vietnamese
refugees are law-abiding victims
of the Vietnamese underworld.
The thmg that's irritating about
Wallace's hatchet job is not just
that it was inaccurate we can
forgive human frailty but that
we had gone out of our way to
help a fellow journalist report the
story. As a professional courtesy,
we told Wallace about an organized-crime
task force that had
linked Ky to the Vietnamese mob,
and even offered to help him get a
copy of the report. But Wallace
bit the hand that fed him.
He disparaged the report,
claiming that his sources felt it
was unreliable. We protested to
CBS that police in several cities
had corroborated the report. In
fact, our associates Donald Gold
berg and Corky Johnson had
checked with police sources in a
dozen cities.
But Robert Chandler, a senior
vice president at CBS, wrote back
"I have seen nothing that chal
lenges the accuracy of (Wallace's)
report."
Chandler surely must have read
a report on Oct. 26 in The New
York Times under the two-column
headline: "Witness Asserts Ky
Head3 Vietnamese Gang3 in U.S."
The story confirmed my original
report, citing the President's Com
mission on Organized crime as
the authority for many of its
charges.
According to the Times story,
the crime commission heard from
a middle-echelon Vietnamese
gang leader. Our sources have
vouched for the credibility of the
witness, who testified behind a
screen and was guarded by a
dozen U.S. marshals. He identified
Ky as the boss of all bosses in the
Vietnamese refugee underworld.
Footnote: Ky continues to deny
that he has anything to do with a
Vietnamese underworld. And
thanks to Mike Wallace's spirited
defense of Ky on "60 Minutes,"
many Americans probably believe
that. ,
Fannie Mac Feud: Oakley
Hunter, the former chairman of
the Federal National Mortgage
Association ("Fannie Mae") was
an official "unperson" at his old
agency for a week last summer.
His portrait was removed from
the wall at Fannie Mae head
quarters and he was informed he
was no longer welcome on "per
sonal" visits to the building.
The fuss began when Hunter's
successor, David Maxwell, spoke
to a reporter for a business
magazine and criticized Hunter's
tenure. Hunter wrote a letter de
fending himself, without criti
cizing the Maxwell regime.
But Maxwell wa3 furious. He
ordered Hunter's portrait jerked
from the wall and fired off an
intemperate letter to Hunter.
"I have given instructions,"
wrote Maxwell to Hunter, "that
you are not to be permitted
access to our offices unless you
are coming to see someone on
official business, in which case
you can make that purpose
known to the receptionist and
security people."
By the time our reporter
reached Maxwell, he had cooled
off and Hunter's portrait was once
again decorating the wall. His
picture pique was "silly," Maxwell
admitted. But his order barring
Hunter from the premises
on personal visits, he said, would
remain in effect.
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