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WEDNKSDAY, NOVKMIIKIt '.ill, Utr.l IIKFIAM) ANU NKWS. KLAMATH KAI.LS. OHKCON PAGE NINE Former Chief Of Intelligence For MacArthur Cuts Loose With Blast At US Newsmen, Accuses Them Of Distorting News Of American Battle Losses In Korea Intelligence nltuntion. Wlllouuhby' article Mtlil "lull IntelllKi.iiM- was liKkinu In WunliiiiKUm, ToKyo und lit the Iront In Korea" Ixxuirr WanlilUKton had declared Wllloutfhby'H reply Hays enemy HKrut.s. IllLrrlntf through trie lines hh "relUKees," supplied the inlor iimtlon. As lo U.N. efforts to or tlie I lain behlnd-the-llnea Information, JII5W YOltK, Ml Oenrral Mac Artliur'a Inrinor rlili'l (il lutein (lonm has nccusrd six newapiiiirr. llitn nl "limroui ate. binned mid prejudiced" repnrtltm ol the Ko rean war, and cliarnod their writ in"i nave aid and lonifnil In the OoiiiiniinlnUt. Iho officer Is rdlrrd Malor Hell- I fl Clinili's A. Wllloutiliiiv. .In an artlcln In ilm Ore-ember iMue (if Connmliolltllll lllnuiulur. Wlllutiuliliy named hc sis Indivi dual nrwhimprriiirii and also criti cised linen nnwn-iunuii'IneN. He aald tliry "apiirurrd to a" out ol Iht'lr way to create dnlniitlsl IDtiuuhl patterns and to belittle tlic . voiMitry's armed forces " Newspaper enverauo of the war. Wlllouuliby said, muy have been , the niuor laclnr In I'lr-Milr-nt 'I'm inau's drclMnii to fire Urn. Mac- . AfUiur. ."I um convinced Iho luiunre of dfleat created an alinortphrre ot teiiMon, tineiinlness and distrust lie twrnou Tukyo and Waitlunuinn. 'Hun la believed lo have bren Ihe niajor ctuse of the MacArtliur-Tiumeu spill " laTl N NA.MI t 'Hharp dentals Innnrdliilelv came frtmi the newspapermen whom jiWlllouitlitiy Identllled bv name, 'rtiey aio Joneph Alnop. syndicate coluiu '" ItUjtJ llnnson llitlilu in. miliiai v cor. i rosf indent of the New York Times; lUnlirr Ulnar!, war correspondent : of the New York llernld-Trlbune; i Hal lloyle, wnr cm respondent and Silumnlht of the Asnoclaled Press: tew I'earsou, syndicate cnluni ; ttl.il: and ('hrlsiopher Hand, former :' iriember of tho lleriiltl-Trtbuue'a Jtorra slalf. now rcntimed Dtiriuu tho must tlltllcult days , lb Korea," Wlllouuliby wrote, 'tliese men were oltPii Ittlicclirulf, ' biased, prejudiced and pclulnnt, Oiey confused an unhappy public. ' The corrosive effect ol their lr ; fesiionslble repnrtlltK was rouul to -that of calculated defeatism, even If such was not intended 'llirlr re. Boning furnished aid and comfort . to the enemy." ' 1 Wlllouuliby also cited Time. New ; eek, and US News and World Report lor "Inferential. K not cal- Bulnted deception of the public. He called the newspapermen - "These rnffnlckcrs of modern lit- 1 carrir.ta cnrnnlcletl Jittery experts . . . louina- oolluayera . . the fickle press . , . the pantlhK eauemess if a sidewalk huckster and Ihe lincluoua concern of an undertake r " Wlllouuhby a accusations cen tered, mainly around two points' I That the correspondents had ''belittled" the tih army, and, 1 That t h e v errunroiulv de- MTlbed lust year's withdrawn), tin kler Chinese attack, as a "defeat." )naitulfylni: Its tirnnorllonv criticu ini! army IntelllRnice. and exalt l;erntinu the casualty fluures. I In llielr replies, Uie corrrspon . ileum denied have criticized the ?;nrmv. as such, or the Individual jMldlrr. They said they had crlll v. i.-.ed MacArihur, for his overall aieclMwiM. and Wlllouuhbv for his , on which Mac- based his atra- linmlKratctl lo Ihe U.S. after belim lorccd to lice a I'russlan mllltarv school and how he continued Ui iiiai'tlce I'russlan awaitner inelhods In the U.H. army, lie also lunorea the luct that It was his faulty In-ti-lllueiice, not the second division's, which 1 criticized In the Yalu river advance ..." Ilnvle said American Ihlclllitence In Koreu. lor which Wlllouidibv was responsible, was "trsulcallv bad " he said; '"Ilie Kiinonil's Job was to oblaln informiillon nboul the Chinese and to evahmto II. I Ihoutthl Ihen, and I still think, that our Intellliience was Irnuli ally bud. On. Wlllouith bv. nnlurallv. feels otherwise. In tins case. Ihe event itlve the an. swer he troops rail 1110 a com plete nuiprl c, and were decisively lieuleii baik. Ueneralltles about bias and nrelurilce' cannot out weiuh the hard facts of defeat and the cold statistics of losses. U was nut 'bins unci prejudice' that rolled 1 the nrmv buck across thousands ol upinre miles of lost uround. p:xecullves nl Ihe two niactzlnes salil they had 110 comment. The events look place a year ano at this lime. The sequence was tin-.: Ily earlv October, the North Korean aiiny had been smashed iiiio splmiernroups which were ro treallllK. In late October. Ihe first Chinese troops were encountered They were In small numbers, and the Chinese lied itoverninent said Ihey were "volunteers." They halted the U N forward movement. Then there was a lull for three weeks, durum which Ilm main lorce of Chinese disappeared. on Nov. 20, MacArthur launched the "home. by-Christmas ollen slve. It was Immediately r.iopped Three days Inter, the army was In full retreat, with some units totally cut oil. It fell back to a line below Heoul beloro It could rcKroup War correspondents on 11 in Iront, In analyilnK the causes of the set back, mainly blamed American In. lellluence. They aald WllloiiKhby had reported only iwi.ObU HU.000 Chinese troops In Korea, when-as. actually some 300.000 hit Iho U N army. In a dispatch dated November 30, which the DiaKailno article quotes, lloyle asked: Why didn't thn American liluh cominiind know the enemy had iniissed such a force?" Wlllouphby's article replies lhat his IntelllKence had furnished pro else lulormatlon on e ii e m v slrenKtli.-'"l'he presence ol 11 Chi nese coipa, or 33 divisions, alonw the Ynlu was known und had been reported lo Washlnuton.' ' 1 In suminthK up his view of the he suld: "The U.N. forces used all the conventional tricks air recon nalsarice, secret agents, parachut ists, etc. However, one does not Improvise such services over- i nlKhl." Beveral times, Wlllouiinby as- sertea mat me aueKea errora in Ynlu river wnn a burner lor any kind of aerial HlKhi." He Milled: "In other words. It forbudv tacllcul reconnalsance for political irusons. O'herwlse normul air observation would huve dlclor.cd the density of troop and vehicular movement liorn the irreul Munchurlan mlll- lury centers. . . Tho entry of Com- j rB)0rlng were calculated. lltlcal Intelligence: it became mili tary only at the point of collision." IIOVI.i: Ot KSTION lioyle also a.-.ked "Why wu-i the enemy able uii"rrlnKly to pick the weak spots In the' U.N. line, while the Allied altuckers were unable He says. "It took on the design ot a calculated ayslem . . wa equal to calculated defeatism." The same assertion la contained In a foreword lo the article, writ ten by tlen. MacArthur. MacArthur suld: "The entire effort to distort and misrepresent Ihe causes lead- truth In recent limes." WIlloUKhby singled out Ihe New York H rald-Trlbune lor a sweep ing attack. 1 John O Connell. editor ol Cosmo, politan magazine, a Hearst publi cation, said WMIoughby'a artleli was submitted by his agept, and lhat It was considered lor several montha before publication The agent. Miss Gertrude Algase. said the article was part of a chapter from a book Wllloughby Is writing. Wliloughby appeared last night on the television program, "Doug las Edwards and the News " The army officer suld the retreat from the Yalu "was not defeat. It Wal not the greatest military disaster In Ihe annals of American history.' "It was an ordinary common some and skilfully executed with drawal," he aald in a filmed por tion of the program. Wllloughby aald his article wal not an attempt to defend any er rors he might have made, and added that he la "completely and contemptuously Indifferent to per sonal criticism by anybody." Boyle, who appeared personally on the program, said he did not know Willoughby's motive for bit charges. even to locate with certainty the'lng to the existing alluatlcn rep- general areas where the R'-os had 1 icj.enU one of the most sca.icaloui concentrated their strength?" I propaganda efforts to pervert the Irsluri Istlo e Srfii ' Jf . Ill r it E1VU TOILET TISSUE i u'.e lllgcnco reports anhur apparently f vv m Koroa. ilM.DWIN KTOItY T As an example of 3n the armv. Wlllo Ihe "belittling" lUghbv quoted ex- tcuMvelv from an article bv liald- f fjwin. II compared American geit :'Ljerslship. troops and equipment 1 .to Willi tho.-,e of oilier countries, and ':Tssid the Americans were not al ivilwavs the best In the world. Wlllnughhy de.-u-rllied this as a "devastating surprising and tell ing reporlorlal attack." Baldwin snld Hie article was written before the Korean lighting began. He aald II was prepared early In the spring of IDJ0, but waa not published uniil after the war started. He added: "As an Intelligence officer, Oen. Wllloughby was widely and lusllv crltlslxed by pentagon officials as well aa In the papers. Ills present article la as misleading and Inac curate aa were some of his Intel ligence reports. 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