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used the political influence of his father, then a U.S. senator, to avoid combat during the Korean War.
Rep. McCloskey, who served in the Marines with Mr. Robertson, also said Mr. Robertson was detailed to be a “liquor officer” transporting liquor from Japan to his unit in Korea.
In a pretrial deposition, filed in U.S. District Court, Mr. Robertson acknowledged he arranged for California-based television journalist John Hasbruck to interview Rep. McCloskey a month before he filed the lawsuit.
After Rep. McCloskey made similar charges during a CBS interview, Mr. Robertson said he decided to arrange for a journalist to question the former California congressman.
Mr. Robertson said he told Mr. Hasbruck some of the questions to ask Rep. McCloskey, a liberal Republican who now practices law in Palo Alto, Calif.
Mr. Robertson also said he asked Mr. Hasbruck to contact a retired Marine general who served in the same division in Korea to document his war record.
Afterward, Mr. Robertson said he viewed the hourlong videotape and turned it over to his attorneys.
Though Mr. Robertson denied asking anyone to intervew Mr. Jacobs, the Indiana Democrat says he, recalls getting a telephone call from a man he concluded was falsely representing himself as a reporter.
“A man called me from California right about the time” of the Rep. McCloskey interview, Mr. Jacobs said April 1.
“I had immediately judged that he was not what he purported to be. He was probably misrepresenting himself as a valid journalist.”
Mr. Jacobs said he was suspicious because the caller “became very disputatious about my answer'’ to a question.
“He gave me a torrent of argument,” Mr. Jacobs recalled what he described as the caller’s “clumsy attempt” to pose as a legitimate reporter.
Asked about Mr. Robertson’s tactics, Mr. Jacobs said, “It can’t pass muster very well as honesty.”
Lawyers for Mr. Jacobs and Rep. McCloskey expressed surprise during the deposition session that Mr. Robertson’s lawyers had not provided them with a copy of the videotaped interview as part of pretrial discovery.
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