WHO'LL SUCEED ALLEN DULLES ?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140154-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

THE RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH MAY 1
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VIRGINIUs DASNEY, Editor JOHN H. COLBURN., Managing Editor
DAVID TENNANT BRYAN, President and Publisher
Monday, May 1, 1961
0'11 Succeed Allen Dulles?
liest choice" to replace ALLEN
W. DULLES as director of Central
Intelligence, DULLES, at 68, has
been planning for some time to
end his long government career,
including eight years as head of
CA.
?GEN. TAYLOR achieved inter-
national renown as commander
it that EN. AffW LT.
The Washin
since the. Cuban
fiasco, for which
the CIA is being
held primarily
responsible by
its critics.
'There is even
that
ERAL
T
of the famed
101st Airborne
first division in
history to re-
ceive the presi-
dential citation,
as a unit.
After VE-Day,
in 1945, he be-
came the 37th
superintendent
of the United
States Military
Academy at
West Point, the youngest head
of that instituion since DOUGLAS
MAcARTHUR. In that capacity he
promptly modernized the cur-
riculum to include broader
studies, and instituted more
rigid screening of applicants
recommended by members of
Congress.
"Cadets," he was quoted, in
summing up the policy, "should
not live in a mental cloister;
their interests must be catholic,
avoiding the narrow horizons
sometimes attributed to the mili-
tary mind."
From tributes paid his bril-
lance, we infer that GEN. TAY-
LOR'S horizons are anything but
narrow.
Washington rumor factories
have been working , overtime
pared to the brilliant veteran of
two wars, young MR. BOB IS a
more shavetail. His inexperience,
and his impetuous decision to in-
tervene personally in the Prince
Edward deadlock would seem
enough to disqualify him, should
the President submit his
brother for Senate approval.
(BOB KENNEDY and TAYLOR are
both on the presidential task
force studying CIA.)
The fateful responsibility of
the man at the master switch-
board of Central Intelligence
eliminates that post as the des-
tination for BROTHER BOB, or
anyone else, whose political in-
eptitude makes it convenient to
have him "kicked upstairs."
* * *
The A has been an enigma
9 die past
wfagT
lxgnic. Cur-
roposals (in 1956) for a con-
gressional. committee to oversee
CIA were voted down in the
Senate, 59 to 27. The proposal
had been made by SENATOR
MANSFIELD of Montana, now ma-
jority leader.
Last week MANSFIELD called for
an "overhaul" of Intelligence,
but, presumably' at the sug-
gestion of the White House, did
not repeat his suggestion' of a
supervisory committee.
However, a new climate of
critical apprehension prevails
since the Cuban affair. There is
also a growing curiosity about
how many un-audited tax bil-
lions have been spent by CIA
since 1951.
When asked on that point at
an editors' briefing conference
a week ago, MR. DULLES grinned
broadly and replied that all he
could say was that "it was not
seven billion."
Quite obviously Central Intel-
ligence, even when restricted
rigidly to the gathering of in-
formation (and precluded from
suggesting policy), must work in
strictest secrecy.
But we see no reason why CIA
should not function equally well
under supervision by a special
committee.
Its top secrets would be no
more in danger than those now
revealed to the Joint Committee
e ua; ly be
tapped for the
super-secret,
super -sensitive
lob now held by DULLES. Com-
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