INSIDE REPORT - THE DE-GLAMORIZED CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110057-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: July 13, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

epor < 0 By Rotv~artd Rvait.s and Robert Novak
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source of growing political not pviicymaxtng, would be 1
controversy, has been or. ; : his job But McCone, a
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to get out of policymaking ` f j1 ,'y } ? f bw kfr` r~ rk y rt> Washington off and on 'i
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cancc c imd Lite abrupt b't,; and Secretary of Defense i
!,dismissal of retired Navy 5~ :1' Robert McNamara often;
Adm. William F. (Red) Ra- : ? clashed over Administration +! t
horn as CIA Director and Nov.* 1Evans policies.
his replacement by the com-; "1st John A. McCone. Ra- When lu'cCone resigned',
potent, professional Richard born was never intended by last year, he favored his dep-
Ilelnis, the first CIA career, , .; uty, Helms, as the Ideal re- It
ist' to be placed in charge ,,. the President to be more .' placement 'except for one ?
ot; the super-secret spy,.l; than a brief transition be thing: as a 19-year careerist,:
agency, tween the glamor of the old,.,; he had no outside power
;So swiftly did Mr. John-"r CIA and the clinical tech-",'. base, as Dulles and McCone'
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the new CIA that Cone, might make It impos-'.
amiable Admiral, a genuine'
hero in development of the'?,.,.tile Prosident hopes to de. ?,'sible for him to say no to
Navy's Polaris submarine . velop under technician. f, the President on policy dis-.
but a misfit in the CIA, that ` Helens, agreements,
Raborn learned of hi6 re,'' t But i:is replacement came But to M~. Johnson, that
placement only after the much :;Donor than anyone now becomes one of Helm's'
President announced It to thought. The r e a son for chief assets for the job.,`/
the world on June 18 at a' the President's unexpected Since Mr. Johnson is deter-,,
suddenly called press com . haste in dismissing Raborn : ? mined to, keep the CIA o,rt
ference. ' is directly 1 I n k e d to Mr, of the news and to remove it.,
' from all policy functions,
Raborn had Johnson's private thoughts
gone to play 1 . Helms Is precisely the' man,
olf that Saturday morning about the future role of the'e
and-had forgotten to take ? CIA and deep concern over!/ he needs. For example, back
us "bellboy," 'a tiny elec. Congressional attacks on In 1985 one of the major,,
roni4 device that 'beeps ,';the agency. ' reasons he assigned a spe-'?
hen the boss calls. When_ In the first place, the: .".vial Intelligence role to J.:'
Vhite House aides were or President was alarmed by': .1;dgar Hoover's FBI In the 1
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iered ? by the President tothe rash of. unfavorable 1 '1 ominican revolution was to ;
elephone the . A d m i r a'i ? publicity directed at Adm.'. reduce the CIA's" visibilityj:
bout his imminent depar? Raborn, It conflicted with' in a public controversy and
ure, they couldn't find'` his plan to take the CIA' substitute that of the polite.'..
um; out of the limelight and out' tally immune, FBI. That's
1'-of the news, . -.'.'how strongly Mr. Johnson
eeds-and-pipe lsuper-spy- ness with its heavy empha-`,,'