PERISCOPING THE NATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200150135-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: March 6, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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';WA' S11S BUREAU The, Federal Government
sworn will begin pUblishmg'a se~?ic of ecxt c
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'eve' willbwrrbd
s . r ,eyon 4141111t that the, Eisenhotiver Administration, de-
spite its denials, knew as early as last May that
he U.S. was entering a full-fledged recession.
'I -he data, compiled here for the Council of Eco-
nomic Advisers, has been kept confidential.
?11'Gl,EW.OOD, CALIF. -- Expect it spectacular
-,(Xl(1-nrilc Titan ICBM shot scion. Note- Titan
can pack it tar greater nuclear blast than Atlas.
PI v'TAGON -?U.S. European Command Head-
quarters in Paris may be closed down in the wake
of that flap over the $200,000 officers' club there
(we page 33). Officials here long have considered
the connnand unnecessar; and the
redi
t th
y p
c
at
y t;eunedy's advisers soon'
oon will recommend that
the President shut it and transfer its functions to
Gen. Lauris Norstad's U.S. staff at SHAPE.
The Inside #itory ' .
#F11ITE 1IOI1,SE - Man behind the plan to in-
1 'ease 'U.S. guerrilla warfare capabilities (see
page 33) : Walt Rostow, the former MIT eco-
rumrics professor who is now Kennedy's special
adviser on national security affairs. To brief the
President on the finer points of this kind of fight-
111g, Bostc,w gave hire two bcrc'rks' by (inc of the
%~arld's rc(ognized authcirities on the' subject-
Ii5?d China toss ,Mao 'rse-t--ng.
I?: 11;'CUT1Vli W'ING'- Don't keep your golf se-
' ?ret any more. That's what Kennedy's closest
Advisers are telling him "ow. Reason: Reporters
eem'plaineel last Saturday when the President
"disappeared" for three hours. Officials here gave
1145 e.xplanatiot-, but in fact JFK wti at Burning
I rou for his second golf game of the week.
U IllTE HOUSE. -Among Mrs., Kenned.y's
problems" is redecorating her new home, and
n ,c she suietl~? has enlisted a new hand to help
hr?1. :1 well-known French designer, Stephane
.Boudin?, has beets `signed up to complement the
ejprts. of
II who'll eontirnle
tt;!, handle, 60, ni oto' are of White Iloulse re-
furbishing. Boudin is a member of a I'arisuur
firm, Jansen, Inc., located a few doors away franc
Maxim's on the Rue Royale.
111e481nd the News
EXF,CVTI; 'OFFICE ' BU1LDIw; - Now it
can be told: JFK's personal choice as head cot the
National Aeronautics and Space, Administration
(NASA) was Lt. Cen. Jame, M. Gavin, recently
confirmed as ambassador to France. (,i ire
wanted the job, but Kennedy previously had
asked Vice President Johnson to find a man fur
the post. When Johnson chose Jaynes Webb, the
President went along - with him, . '
CABINET ROOM--At a recent meeting one
Cabinet member suggested it 'night be a good
idea if each official sent a weekly progress report
to President Kennedy. Fine, said the President,
but let's make it two a'Week. And that's just
what's being., done.
WHITE HOUSE- Like Ike s, JFK's national se-
curity advisers are disturbed by the amount of
intelligence data publicly offered to the Russians. I.3
Latest example is ab
i
us
nesspromotif
-on map' r o Wichita, Kans., which shows the sites of eighteen
proposed bases for Titan-II' ICEMM's.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Electrical Workers pros
ident James B. Carey Jots just sent a gift to the
seven electrical company executive now jailed
in Norristown, Pa., for monopolistic price-fixing.
' The 'gift? The garim Monopoly.
Where Aro' Theyr Ne r
NEW 'YORK CITY - Cmtnel Myers, raven-
haired, sloe-eyed v n p of the silent screen
whose panting love scenes with such leading
met' a~ Rudolph Vttlegtfnt% John Barryrnore, anci
Ramon Novarro led V. Scott Fitzgerald to rt;une
Nlurrh 0, ('"rt
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