THE ADMINISTRATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 2 4 1966
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hick tries not too successfully to stay
tit of the news, makes it big when it
as something that it wants to tell. So
i was last week when Richard Helms
as named to replace Admiral Wil-
am Raborn, 61, as director of the
1A. And, as usual, there were count-
ss cloak-and-dagger theories to ex-
lain the switch. President Johnson
ompounded the conspiracy theories by,,
urying the news in a clutch of routine
crsonncl announcements.
Actually, Raborn had an understand-
ng with Johnson, when he took the job
4 months ago, that he would stay only
year or two; thus his departure was'
of unexpected. A retired line officer
ith 'a flair for administration, he:,
roughs to the sprawling spookery in
angley, Va., modern management
echniques for analyzing, projecting and
istributing the inchoate mass of in#or-
nation that pours in on the agency
rom every corner of the world.
Unlike his immediate predecessors,
ohn McConc and Allen Dulles, Raborn
ought no policymaking role, was far
ess concerned with the substance of in-
elligence, and his detached air drew
riticism.
Dick Helms, 53, has made his career'
n what Washington calls the "intelli-
ence community." A Williams College
raduate and a newsman before joining
he Navy in 1942, he served as an OSS
fficer during the war and signed tip
nth the CIA at its founding in 1947.!
e rose to become deputy director for'
lans-meaning covert operations-un=
er McCone, and has since handled the'
gency's delicate relations with Con-,
ress while simultaneously directing'
lost of the CIA's pure-intelligence func
ions as Raborn's first deputy. He thm
ecame the first professional ever to'
cad the agency, and about that at,
east there was no mystery.
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No mystery about the credentials.