'FAMILY' GOVERNMENT GROWING IN CAPITAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700470015-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 16, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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has been a source of growing
concern among State Department
career veterans and diplomatic
correspondents assigned to inter-
pret the course of American for-
eign relations.
But the worry is by no means
confined to any one branch of the
executive department. It honey-
combs all of the upper echelons
of the administration.
The decline in Influence of the
Secretary of State is the most
marked since the ye:,rs of Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt, who sidetracked
the late Cordell Hull. to deal on
his own with the affairs of the
nation overseas.
There were to be sure, some
misgivings over former President
Eisenhower's employment of his
brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower,
on various missions to Latin
America.
But there was never any ques-
tion that John Foster Duties was
running the diplomatic show for
the United States. Nor was Chris.
tian Herter, Dulles' successor,
made subject to family spying.
That, unfortunately, cannot be
said for Dean Rusk, less articu-
,
a
ener
the Attorney
mind of the successful Kenned#yf
Bob Kennedy, after this 1111 6.
was named to serve as alter ego
for retired Gen. Maxwell Taylor,
in an Investigation of the cloak i
and dagger central intelligence l
agency, whom the White House
palace guard had Initially blamed
for the ill-fated adventure in Cuba. I
Their report has remained As t
secret ? as the CIA Itself.
was soon after named 'as in
A feell4g of
ministers' conference in Paris of
brother Bob. But it did not calm
alarms of subordinates over Bob
Kehnedy's private talks with SO-
Viet Amb dor Mikhail M
kov, to wm he grtsewm
spoke with the President's voice.
late, but perhaps as able an Deco-1 was not a participant.
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