Cambodian story fabricator confesses sham
NEW YORK (AP) - A free-lance writer
has admitted that he fabricated a story he
wrote for The New York Times Magazine
about a trip inside Cambodia with Khmer
Rouge guerrillas. The Times reported in
its Monday editions.
Writer Christopher Jones, located at
Calpe, Spain, admitted to a Times editor
and two of its correspondents after three
days of questioning that he had not been
to Asia last year and had written the
article for the magazine’s Dec. 20 issue
without leaving Spain, the newspaper
said
“It was a gamble — that was it,” The
Times quoted Jones as saying.
"Unfortunately, the gamble was too big,
and wasn't sufficiently researched, or
tied down. The gamble was a mistake.”
He said he made up the article, using
his imagination and material he said he
gathered in two 1980 visits to Cambodia,
because he couldn't afford to go there.
The Times said.
In his article. Jones claimed to have
spent a month in southwestern Cam
bodia where the forces of former Prime
Minister Pol Pot are resisting Vietnam
military pressure. He described his
travels, individuals he supposedly met.
and a battle between Khmer Rouge
forces and Vietnamese using tanks and
helicopters.
A.M. Rosenthal, the Times' executive
editor, said in a statement:
"We checked his reputation and were
informed by a publication for which he
had worked in Asia that he was a reliable
journalist. After his piece came in, it was
put through checking procedures ...
"But in this case, these procedures
failed to uncover the clues in the text that
would have led us to doubt the veracity of
the piece.
"We do not feel that the fact the writer
was a liar and hoaxer removes our re
sponsibility. It is our job to uncover any
falsehood or errors.”
Rosenthal added: "I regret this whole
sad episode and the lapse in our
procedures that made it possible "
The Village Voice on Jan. 13 noted that
a passage at the end of Jones' article,
describing a blind Cambodian minstrel,
appeared to have been plagiarized from
Andre Malraux’s "The Royal Way." a
novel set in Cambodia.
The TimSs said that following that
charge, it wrote to Jones demanding an
explanation and cancelling an assign
ment for another article. Repeated at
tempts to reach him then by telephone
were unsuccessful. It said
The newspaper said that after ques
tioning at the Mediterranean resort town
of Calpe, Jones admitted he had
plagiarized the Malraux passage, saying
“I needed a piece of color."
The Times said Rosenthal ordered a
full investigation after The Washington
Post reported last Thursday that a Khmer
Rouge official in Bangkok had said
Jones had not visited the guerrilla en
claves in 1981.
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