HUANG'S COMMERCE POLICY ROLE CITED.(MAIN)

Byline: Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- Newly disclosed Commerce Department documents indicate that fund-raiser John Huang had a voice on U.S.-Asia commercial policy, despite Clinton administration assertions that his duties there were largely administrative.

The 1995 documents, obtained from congressional sources Wednesday, were written by Assistant Commerce Secretary Charles F. Meissner in December 1995, as Huang, later involved in a scandal over fund-raising by the Democratic National Committee, was leaving the department to become a DNC fund-raiser.

Meissner wrote that ``Huang's expertise on the Asia Pacific region'' was ``required'' to help …