REINS OF STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500150015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 26, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP75-00149
AN INDEPENDENT NEWPPAPER THURSDAY, DECEM$'7 1
Reins of State
President Johnson is striving for a 's
nd
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objective lit attempting to brtbtg the many reln~i
of Latin American policy into a single y1ft 'of
hands. lie would give his new Assistant Secre;`,
tart' of State for Inter-American effadzz a doub e"I
job to obtain this mamas C, Mann is ex- .'.,
peoted to serve both as an Assistant to the
President and as an officer within the State
Department. Yet this two-hat arrangement raises
some difficult questions.
f Th
ere are other instnf Stt
aces oae Deparbment'r`
officials serving as presidential advisors--A,m'bassa..
doer-at-large Thompson, for example, acts as i-f
White House advisor on Soviet Oaks. But to-
our j knowledge there has been no other imta q
l
stratlve real maoutu hldi
sesong a formal title aa, }
a White House Assistant.
The ease for the Innovation rests on the maY
We-agency sprawl involved in regional
old
p
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Since the Cuban missile crisis, there' has been a
L
ain Ameria Pli C
cnocyommittee, which brings,
the CIA, USIA and AID.
AN of these es
agencies
are involved In hemisphere affairs, but no single
of vial can speak with the one kind of authority
that an Ambassador overseas has as chief of a
mission. Making Ma'. Mann a White House Assistant
,.would, In effect, make him the mission chief.
The can agalmt the arrangement is that it
may d1slooate the cittain of .command in the State
Department. Mr. Nlr> e.- would be both a subordi-,
hate to the Secretor, of State and a oo-eq'ual by"
virtue of his rank a the white House. Or at
least it would seebt, that way to Africans and
Asians, who would it tily covet similar arrange.
ments for U.S. ofl}F I ~Ils dealing in their area.
Still, in the e W , the test will be whether
the new arranget~r N works. It may be wiser to
weloome Presider Johnson's innovation rather
than become bor ed In the one game Wash.
ington f1nd8 "end as1v fascinating--the game of
reorganizing tit: E iernment
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