'DER ALTE' STAYS BUT MAYBE JUST FOR 2 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200110118-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: October 9, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

V. S. NEE ,-,VS AND
WORID REPORT xwmMC7,- OCT 9 1961
Approved For Release 1999/09/16 : CIA-RDP70
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was back in control,' In sppite of on
reverses >in Yid-September, r ` firy
endorsement ' from his town- party and
out-maneuvered opposition groups that
demanded he step down.
By the end of pteeSember, it was all
but certain he would be named Chan
cellor again,` although ''.he was not,ex
pected to serve out a full term.
The aging leader's fortunes sank ,when
his Christian Democratic Party lost its
majority control of Parliament, The Free
Democrats, most likely partnfra"for a
coalition, at first refused to serve tinder
Dr. Adensuer,
Once his position as Christian Demo-
cratic leader was reaffirnsed, -Dr. Aden-
suer turned his attention to negotiations
for a coalition. When he made gestures
toward the Social Democrats (Socialist)
Party. the Free Democrats retreated,
agreed to support an Adenauer Govern-
ment "for a transition period."
The 85-year-old "Der Alte"-the Old
One-let it be known he was willing to
step out within two years. He demandedd
in return, full support` ;for his' foreign`
policy-close ties with the U.S.-and the
North Atlantic'' Treaty Orgatd tati on ,
(Agreement on. . Berlin?i 'page 42).
"DISARMER". FOSTER'
Old Hand .
. New... ency
President Kend dy's n ~Manteift
drive was plaoeii! under e'.coinpit of
a man who knows his way grdund Wash-
ington. William C. Foster '
Mr. Foster, 64, a Republican, fias.spent
more than a dozen years in key Govern-
ment jobs. He also is a business adminls
trator with wide experience- h; the steel
and chemical fields.
In going outside his owri paity for a
man to head the newly created U. S. Arms
Control Agency, President Kennedy said
he hoped to stress "the bipaitisan, na=
tional concern of both parties and of_ all
Americans for this effort to disarm all
mankind with adequate safeguards,"
Although Mr. Foster is a Republican,
most of his Government service has been
under the Democrats. He was Under
Secretary of Commerce from 1946 to
1Q4 . Later he headed the Economic Co-
ary,
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operation Administration. From 1951 to The CIA has a staff of 10,000 in Chairman, Atomic Energy
1 Ph.i, he was Deputy Secretary of Defense. Washington, , thousands of
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t' 54 ?NEWS A WORLD PEPORT, Oct. 0, 1961
Mr. McCone, right, with the President and Mr. Dulles
STATINT
The biggest intelligence-gathering or- 1 only federal official who can spend large
ganuatron outsid
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e
ommunist world
-the U ..S. Central Intelligence Agency'
is to get"a new chief. ' ," '
John A. McCone, California Repub
.Bean wltlij'a record of i ucee*tIn in-
dustry and 'achievement as *,tqugh-
willed Government administrator, will
take over, 'in Npvembet, when Alen W.
Dulles, CIA Director-sWce 1951, retires..
The appointment w announced. bi'
President Ke#ut ly ut Newport, "R, T.,
September -2?` ~" 7, M Cone
back to 'Washingtonbri less than ` a
year's absence. He was Atomic Energy
Commission Chairman from 1958 until
he resigned last January. -
The choice of Mr. McCone to head
the huge, secret organization was inter-
preted as a clear defeat of those inside
the Administration who. have wanted to
downgrade the CIA ever since the failure
of the anti-Castro invasion of Cuba last
spring., The new chief of intelligence is
a man with firm ideas about how the
cold war should be prosecuted.
Mr. McCone won strong friends in
both parties in Congress for his political
adeptness in handling controversial
atomic policy. He also won praise for
tightening up management of the AEC.
Mr. McConC ran the AEC largely as a
sy s,`without. always telling Congress
t. Kennedy's intention to keep it
t".CHIEF OF THE' CIA
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BARN' fan. 4, 1902, in San
Prprtsuco
Married, no clu dren
INDU RIAI, ._ CAREER,-Execu-
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apred steel, `33'37;
1dent, Bechtel-McCune.
;~lintr CaIilornia Shipbuild-
', 9" '41-'46; chairman,
4tts4ua. Hendy Corp., ship-
Ong, since '45.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE-
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Defense, '48; Air Force
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