DEFENSE PICTURE: A ROLE FOR RIVERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700020030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: December 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

C(; 7 1966
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M le or Rivers half-dozen policyma
The story; so far
follows. About five
ByMarquis Childs the Russians began
OF ALL the chnraofarc ;n 4hn n~~l 4w 4 for anti-ballistic missiles around their
mane of silver hair and a manner to go eral hundred miles from the target.
with it is chairman of the House Armed Then a year ago they began to build a ??
Services Committee. more extensive system.
The South Carolinian with the dramatic greater height and at a distance of sev
y
States is to spend $30 billion to $40 bil? an a The a opera on was suspende . . The reason for the suspension is con-
lion on an anti-ballistic missile system, ' jccture - the possibility that they were
none is more flamboyant - or unpre- devising more sophisticated devices for
dictable - than Rep. L. Mendel Rivers destroying incoming missiles at a much.
will determine whether the United PJAIJUl[1a1 CIL1e5. ttner somewnaL more
it, it., t? d
He might have come out of one of McNamara will say only that despite
as anuary. I undertaken at the highest level to as-
He orders an Air Force plane-using sure the Soviets on the score of the
Air Force planes to commute to Char. ?: L_?!_?_?_ _-
Rivers is planning. the kind of mission "' ratio peen 6a1U on apparenuy gooa l
to Puerto Rico that he led 1 t J ..,:.authority that the United States has'.1
1,rumors that Lae Soviet system is poten-
W i l I i a m Faulkner's novels of the tially more effective than any official
Snopeses, the poor boy rising to power is ready to acknowledge he. considers the
and position in the remnants of the ? National Intelligence Estimate valid. On
aristocratic South. Seniority gave him this basis he reaffirms his 1964 state-.?
his .chairmanship and he exercises his ment that there Is nor break In the stale
power with the imperial touch. As for mate foreseeable into the '70s. If either
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNa- of the two scorpions should try a first-
mara, when he comes to Capitol Hill strike, knockout the, result would be.,'
to testify the chairman looks on him death for both.
frrnwninUAf ae an nm,nnn w.. %-... -.- _ L_ _??, "'i
lot the strate . current of fear. Marshall D. Shulman of
piq rn the st a t gy to give McNamara ; Harvard's Fletcher School of ' Law and
will take a number of committee mem? p ? e mos -season-
will to Ramey Air Force base near San vail
ed against ed inst st n a deep end has. not der-
dp and growing under-
Juan. There in early January they will: F
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es on and wherever the whim directs. ' it, we won't.
him he considers his prerogative - that ' But in the o in'on of th t
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THE REPUBLICANS with their vie. "'recently in The Washington Post after'"
tory of 47 seats in the House will carry a stay in the Soviet Union that almost
j Eisenhower called .. "'' , ?? ?? -u~.L ,#UL ?u r
in his farewell ad- ; Nike X , system of questionable Value
dress the.
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the conservative side. are sinculnr1v is cuttinu dnen1 1 into :, .. n d < n !
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the Defense Department did not need or",; ever the nation's defense needs might'.
want. irL_ - _____.
1 --8 11Carly ~I onuon to the defense ;. that the United States with its fabulous
'appropriation that McNamara. insisted productive s stem
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s zeal the shipyards of his n .Q 1e6e v_altad ~p,~otur~ raetamts;Yi,Q'
native Santo in ..r ,-nHinn b:-....-_ L.-'-- i _'~ M_?"-'-~. ?+~:i llL
proval of two nuclear :powered frigates.
The frigates are still an angry gleam 'I
in Rivers' eye.
l tin s. _The whole matter
_. ~ -, is shrouded. in-:~
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