THE STATUS OF MR. BOWLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130108-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: July 18, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/16 : CIA-RDP70=000588001
The Status of Mr. 1307'
President Kennedy moved quickly to sow
out as Under Secretary of State. published
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dent. After the luncheon, ssaocj*t is
had been straightened out. We'
them that cannot be eliminated by
it transferring Mr. Bowles was that he
however, that this.was a litetfxt for' re-4
him from the field of policy-making. ,,
is particularly disturbing that the _story
to go at the same time "it-would c vthcg''
-line' factions in the shaping ot, foreign
Bop Iles and Adlai Stevenson, United.
es. Ambassador to the United Nations,
uowlcs properly opposed sending United Sttee
troops to Laos, despite the fact most Admig?
istration leaders-favored intervention. He was
right in opposing the Cuban invasion. He is
right in advocating negotiations over Berlin. '
And he and Mr. Stevenson are right in their
concern over our dead-end China policy.
But there are powerful groups who think
Bowles is wrong. Could It be that these
return for the resignation of Mr. Dulles,
whose retirement has been forecast ever since
he Cuban fiasco? Mr. Dulles has extremely
ve they been demanding Mr. Bowles's !'
removal?
Were President Kennedy to accede to such
a deal, be would go far toward convicting his
Administration of'being a mere policy broker
oet.ween contending points of view, s !th no
basic Jrhiloscphy of its own Mr I:~e;,'Ie is
txrit necessariiv -t e t>z s: man livaii,inls! for
purely adminlsir.itive his itJe:i are
b ! Uy needed in the Ad, ;iris ration JA::