INSIDE REPORT: MORE CIA TROUBLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120091-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: January 9, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
er a-n to impair ec ining morale in 'the Contra
ntelligence Agency (CIA) is the unannounced, unprece
ented decision of a top-flight professional intelligent
n to resign as deputy director for intelligence for
esser job.
rav Cline has privately informed CIA chief Willian
(Red) Raborn that he wants to relinquish the agency'
ourth-highest post and take a field job in Europe. Iii
ecision comes as Raborn is under increasing interna
CIA criticism for letting CIA morale slip.
Although Cline disclaims unhappiness, with Rabor
s a factor in his unusual departure, colleagues thin
therwise. More important, the departure of the cracl
telligence professional will leave a gaping hole in th
gency at the very time that internal dissatisfaction wit
aborn is highest.
The question asked in Washington is this: if Rabor
justly famed as~the father of the Polaris missile) can'
revent the flight of a crack professional like Cline, ho
an he restore his agency .to the high morale it enjoyed
rider former directors Allen Dulles and John McCone?
. Another factor lies behind Cline's decision: his in
imate ties to McGeorge Bundy, who is quitting as Presi
ent Johnson's top national security aid effective Feb. 2$? With Bundy as the chief White House link to CIA
e and Cline were in"the thick of super-secret operations
uring the Cuban missile` crisis. It was Cline who rushed
ore: ~.~~ Trouble.
Litt: LAi.',L - res o Soviet missiles in?Cuba to Bundy
at the White House in October, 1962. Bundy ran them up-
stairs to President Kennedy.
SOFT ON L]3.T
Preliminary drafts for the Republican '""State of the
Union" speech to be delivered. Jan. 19 by House leader
Gerald Ford and Senate'leader Everett Dirksen"havebeen discarded as being too critical ,of President Johnson.;'
Because of LBJ's peace offensive, Republican strate- `I'.
gists won't risk the label of "war party".belittling peace`
overtures. Consequently, Republican members 'of. Con-;
gress will be softer on Mr. Johnson.
'Furthermore, Rep. Melvin Laird,-of Wisconsin,' a'.
.leading Republican spokesman on military affairs, is caua
tioning Republican Congressmen not to criticize the Presi- `
dent's bombing pause as an aid to Communist military.op-
eratiops. Though a hard-liner himself,.Laird would leave;;
war hawk talk to Right wing Democrats'. like:.Mend'el
Rivers of South Carolina.
YARMOLINSKY TO. GO
Adam Yarmolinsky, an imaginative, dedicated public`
servant immobilized by neo-McCarthyism, has decided to
call it quits in Washington after 16 months in limbo;,IIe.
intends to join Harvard's new Kennedy Institute.'
Yarmolinsky's troubles began `early in 1964 when he?
left the Pentagon (where he was Secretary~ot Defense.
Robert McNamara's top" assistant) to become ?No.,2 man
under Sargent Shriver in the new poverty program.
To appease Southern conservatives `(who made. ab-
surd charges of Communist sympathies), Yarmolinsky
was bounced out of the poverty program in August, 1964.
Since then, President Johnson has declined to give Yar-
molinsky any job requiring Senate confirmation.
Although friends urged Yarmolinsky to'quit with a
blast at the White House, he declined-telling them he.
needed to rehabilitate his unjustly shattered reputation..
Consequently, he wandered inside the Great Society with-
out a permanent job, until named Deputy Assistant Sec
retary of Defense for International Affairs in October-.
a junior position not requiring Senate confirmation.
A footnote: other New Frontiersmen set to turn up
at the Kennedy Institute are Daniel P. Moynihan, former.'
Assistai t Secretary of Labor and author, of the famed
report on the Negro family, and Carl Kaysen;.former;;
White House aid for international affairs.
INTEREST FROM SALTY
In one of his last acts as a politician, Sen. Leverett,
Saltonstall of Massachusetts displayed the thrift and hon- `
.esty of a New England Yankee.
The Senate Republican' Campaign Committee, pact
given Saltonstall $5,000 as a preliminary contribution to
.his 1966 re-election campaign. When Saltonstall an-!
nounced his retirement, he promptly retu'r'ned-the $5,000
-plus another $500.
Why the extra $500? Rather than let the $5,000 lie;
idle until campaign time, Saltonstall had put the money
to work: The $500 represented the return on his Invest..
meat,' and he-felt that, too, should be-returned''to the
campaign committee.
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