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b3 #Item: Valencia's efforts back in #ashington assured coverage for Scripps-Howard by two of its special far eastern correspondents, Harry Taylor, now in Australia, and Jack Russell, now in Hong Kong; for INs by Earl Marckres of that service's Washington bureau; for Parade, by that Sunday supplement's Washington correspondent, Fred Blumenthal; for CBs by its Tokyo correspondent, Peter Kalischer, and for the New York write comment, the Nashington Post assigned its editorial writer, Robert Estabrook; the New York Times, a member of its editorial board, Robert Aura Smith. "Item: The Philippine ministry of communications cabled specific coverage invitations to the editors of the Nation, Rangoon, Burma; the Observer and the Times of Indonesia, Djakarta; the Straits Times, Singapore, Malaya; the Times of Ceylon, Ceylon; the Dawn of Karachi and the Pakistan Times, Pakistan, and the States and the Times of India, New Delhi. "The reporters were assured full opportunity to observe everything about the campaign and to report it as they saw it. The Manila press praised the plan editorially as one that would help insure an honest election, but the charges of intended rigging continued. Garcia, however, urged Valencia to add more correspondents to the American contingent if he could." Attached to the foregoing news release was a A. L. VLAENcIA, Chief of the Philippine Information Agency in Washington, and by his associates.'It related the documentation n*yeememenn uy Axoae e dogaaap oo papeau aq penem geag The photostatic copies of the teletype reflected that it was from BRADLEE to de BORCHGRAVE and was dated November l, 1957, and dealt with the Philippines. It indicated that de BORCHGRAVE had called FITZMAURICE. It indicated that BRADLeE had questioned VALENCIA as to who hired FITZMAURICE and quoted VALENCIA as saying "Anyone who says I hiredFiTzMAuRice is a Goddam liar. A Goddam liar, that's all." BRADLee indicated in the teletype that VALENCIA said that one GEORGE PEABODY did not represent the Philippine Government and never had, but rather represented a group pf' Philippine industrialists banded together as the Philippine Association. BRADLEE observed that VALENCIA might be right since PEABODy was not registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department. BRADLEE stated that FITZI:AURICE had called him to advise that he was going to the Justice Department, but BRADLEE observed that if no money changed hands, he' doubted whether FiTZMAURIce had to register. -14-