CIA CHANGING OF GUARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/05/0 001 RO
JUN 2 8 1966 i FOIAb3b
CIA ha~.1~.g in g o Guard e e By Ivilliani S. White. CPYROHI
Agency Being Vindicated by Senate"
top guard at the central ?.? that is that. tirement long since prom
All Agency Is pro- All this state of affairs is ''.'ised him by President John- -? '
cecdin smoothly not- understandably most pleas-' son-under criticism 'here ' ?'
g? ing to the CIA, which has' and there. Still, he can take,
withstanding "FIRIN long been the top villain in comfort in the knowledge
'CIA's inbuilt
M all the bureaucracy to. a that the one man who really
capacity to
evoke more 01; small minority in Congress.. ought to know'the quality
4 a . y
than its share These men simply cannot ac?.,.'. of his work, the President,
cept the. hard reality that a is genuinely sorry to see
o f a kind, tight secrecy over clandes him go.
?
of querulous ,
tine operations is the un-
suspicion and t'? J , THE PRESIDENT has
criticism. s , avoidable price exacted by
sent to Raborn a private let=
Richard the kind of world in, which . ? ter of farewell that should
Helms, w.Iio we live. convince the open-minded.
is to be, the' Whit. THE WHOLE point is that.',,- that the Admiral did a good
Agency's di the Russell CIA Committee job, Indeed, "In your leav-J
rector in' succession. to his has never known' a leak of Ing, ? the President told Ra-J
.
resigned chief, Adm.' Wit-':', national security informa?' "born,' "you take with you,.t
Liam F. Raborn, has been +- tion; the Foreign. Relations', not only my gratitude but
.
given the;: unanimous ap? " Committee is widely known:..-that of your fellow country-1
proval of . the leadership of for just such leaks, Its ef?? men who have been served
both parties in the Senate, fort to move in on the CIA ., so well by your unique pow i .
Deputy Helms thus be. ,:;As not being rejected by a,, ers of leadership and un
'comes Director Helms under Senate .majority only be derstanding.11 .5,
a powerful ? and, practically ,.+cause of the essential bank If this Isn't a "well done
speaking; an unchaIlengeable, ' ruptey of 'its argument that ? from the ' Commander in- ,
Senate sponsorship.' More. CIA meddles in. the making ,Chief to a faithful old sailor,
of foreign policy, but mainly,: nobody could write one,.
over, it has become `clear because some of its mem- that the 'demand of the Seji- That the President has
ate Foreign Relations Com- ? bens simply cannot keep sent It reflects; to. be sure,
mittce for a part in congres- from talking too much about :.more than personal appre-
sional - supervision of the sonic. things that should not elation, for a than who has
CIA is going exactly. no. _.,be tlked about at all. done a particularly hard
where. The net of it is that the, tour of duty. It also reflects
agency as an institution is'; his grave concern tha, all
The most realistie eiti t
- : In the process of a massive men in the most critical and -a
mate is that if and when -. vindication by the Senate, most criticized arms of govt
'this proposal is pushed to. a This is bracing news, indeed, ernment-intelligence, de-
showdown on the Senate to the poor old CIA, which 'fe'nse, State- Department-.I
floor it will do well to. at
tract as much as 20 per cent can never speak of its many rare of necessity 'asked to
of the vote. successes and can never bear burdens of such pres-
even try to defend its few . sure as to make high careers
CIA is' already supervised 'failures. It is happy news, less and less attractive and`
i by a select. and bipartisan,',', for Admiral Raborn,-: 'sometimes hardly even bear.
Senate group, headed by whose services to this coup-1 able. '
Sen. Richard R u s s e 1 I of try-from his development Highly qualified men' are:
.'Georgia, which demonstra- i, of the Polaris 'missile pro- ,'. hard to. find-and keep
bly holds the confidence o@ gram' to his conduct. of, the` even in times far less de-
a Nast- majority oft the yen- CIA-h a s b e,e it rare I y manding , than ' these, 'the!!,'
ate, So the Russell Commit. matched. days of the running sore o
Lt" will continue to be the t -' To.be sure, faborn leaves the war in Vietnam.
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