HELMS TO RESIGN AS CIA DIRECTOR

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Go ernmen Hairs
WASHINGTON POST
3 December 1972
?
Itobert H. Finch, deputy Colin-
' set Harry S. Dent and sort:int
?
4 assistant Robert J, Brown, the
? highest-ranking black in the
, ' Nixon administration.
Donald H. Ittimsfeld, diree-
evisions
R tor cif the Cost of Living
I Council, will be given an uni,
dentified "major new assign-,
-zz? tient " Ziegler said. ittnnsfeld
C h ?
ontinue :been Mentioned fret1
; tinently as a likely Choice to,
I 'replace George Romney, whd
, ? By Lou Cannon , resigned early last Week aff
Secretary of Housing and Ur-.
Washington i'ost Stott Writer
ban Development.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.,' Mr. Nixon pledged Monday:
'Dec. 2?Richard Helins will: at Camp David that he was go-.
,S00/1 resign 'as director of ? .!ng to "change some of the'
players and some of the plays"
the Central . Intelligence in an effort to prevent his ad-
'!Agency. Be has been offer- ministration from "coasting
?ed a new Job by President idownhill" In its sec?11t1 term'
Most of the announcements
.:..1\1;icxeon and is expected- to': during the Week have been of
ap
t. administration holdovers, and
Ziegler conceded that the ap-
pointments have not amounted
to a "traditional shakeup."
Instead, Ziegler said, the
various changes in assign-
ments will produce "more effi-
ciency" in the, White House
? Helms' . intentions became
? known ? in Washington today
while the President was an-,
',notincing here that, he. wonld
z retain his principal :White
.? House advisers but would ac-
':Pt. the resignation of special
,,eotinsel Charles W. Colson. ' and "allow us to get the job
? Presidential press' secretary done better." ?
;Biondi! L Ziegler atinouneed The full list of holdovers an-
nounced by Ziegler today in-
'eludes Haldeman, Ehrlichman,
Kissinger, Ziegler, emigres.
sionat ?liaison man William E
.; that No. I assistant H. R. (Bob)
? Haldeman, doMestic affairS
sistant ? John D. Ehrilehman
and foreign . adviser
:Henry A. Kissinger would'stay Timmons, special consultant
,ion in the second term, . z Leonard Garment, director of
f. Ziegler also announced the communications Herbert G.
'. retention of eight other high-, Klein,. counsel. John W. Dean
ranking officials, including' ill, personal secretary Rose
ititmelf, and the anticipated_ Mary Woods and. speechwri-
'?resignations of counsellor. ters Raymond K. Price Jr.
WASHINGTON STAR
4 December 1972 ,
Patrick J. Buchanan Jr, and
,William Satire.
. Ziegler also announced that
Roy L. Ash, 'the newly op:
' pointed nirectio of the Office
'of Management and Budget,
wohld be,made an assistant te
the President, a designation.
twbich Means that he will be.
'available to take onlpecial as-
1,,signmenta lb addition 'to di-;
!recting the budget office.
Helms, got intd intelligence
Work In World War II as a
young naval officer assigned
to the -Officeof Strategic
,Services. He joined' the. CIA
when it was formed in 1947,
and has remained there ever,
'since. He rose to tile position
of deputy director after an as?-!
signmerit..as the director of
CIA's covert or "black" opera-,
Bons. ?' : ,;?;
.President, Johnton picked ?
him to head the nancY in
1966 as a replacement for
Mm. William F. Raborn jr.
Helms' ? reptitatlon as a
"professional" in the intelli-
gence community and in the
larger political community of
Washington has, been high. A
newspaper columnist Wrote ?
common Judgment . in 4966.:
"(lle) Ills none of the stereo-
types of the Spy thriller And,
the innumerable spy films of
recent years. Slender, soft-spo- ?
ken, modest in demeanor . .
he is not even a distant rela-
tive of James, Bond." . , ?
While no information was
available last night on a new
assignment for the 50.year-old
Helms, it was determined that
he regards the Presidetitifil
new offer as n promotion trot*
his present job.' :
There was Speculation, toot ?
,that Helms might be replaced;
by Jfinies Schlesinger, who ist
presently chairman of the At
omic Energy Commissiiihf;
Schlesinger is highly regard&
by the ..White Mouse and.
Played an i important role iiii,
evaluating ?and helping to re-
Organize the government Inte11:?.1
ligence community, after, Mr.1
Nixon took 'office. - . ? I
, The. Washington Post Fe;,
horted on. Nov. 25 that Colso
a controversial troubleshooter.;
who served as liaison man to?I
labor and ethnic groups dur-
ing the election campaign,
would he leaving the White
Hoitse to resume private legal
practice in Washington,' tie,
finost? HWY will. Join ? a firM
(head (1 by his old Partner,
iCharl s H. Morin, wile Said
that he and his partners would
"weleone him with open
i
arms," .?
Zieg or said that Colson will
remain on the White House
staff for at least 60 days to.
help with transition to the sec,
end terth. ,
Finch, who said two weeks
ago' that he was returning to
California with an eye on ruit4
!ling for either the governort
ship or U.S. Senate, is to hold;
. a news conference in Washing-
:ton Tuesday to diScuSs his for-
!mai Plans.
Dent will return to hi)i legal
practice in South Carolina and
Brown s to his business in
,North Carolina,' Ziegler said; ?..? -:.
Sj
' ? his been.' involved in ititeili.
Helms' Exit From CIA
War IL ? -
gence work ever since World i
? 3
'
' But insiders already are 4,
? . ? voicing skepticism that any
'? ' job outside the intelligence 1
? . ,
I 4 ? ? ssnger4 field could be anything but a '
. comedown for Helms, who is ..i
ned tobelieved to have been anxious ^
. I to stay on as CIA chief.
1 gence community. ' tive sources in the'administra- ' A key element in this view Is ;
By OSWALD AIIINSTON The disagreement reported- tion, has not been announced the belief within the iritelli-
i Sior-Nrws Staff Writgr ly began with Helms' position publicly pending a decision by gence community that Helms :
?? The impending resignation in 1960 on a key intelligence the Central Intelligence Agen- had lost the confidence of the
? of Richard M. Helms as the, issue ? whether the Soviet cy head to accept another po- White House?Kissinger espe- ?',
nation's top intelligence officer : Union, with its giant SS-9 . sition.
? can. in large part be traced to missile, was going for a "first- It is understood the new po- : daily
?l"KlissInger . felt that Helms i
a serious and continuing policy strike capability." Helms took. ?._i
sdion will involve the foreign . wasn't so much trying to Sup-
disagreement with Henry w
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theA. less alarmed view. ,: . policy field and will he pre- port the administration as
Kissinger, according to in- Helms, departure, which has ' tented publicly as a promotion playing politics on his own? ..,
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? tegetter in the intelligence
ds-
tabilhinient," one source ex-
. plolned,
In all outward, respects,
?,,bowever, Helms appeared to
f. have been given President
Nixon's full confidence, ex-
pressed both in public state- '
!tents and in Helms' assign-
ment just a year ago to a
position of broadened responsi-
bility in intelligence.
As a result of a sweeping
reorganization of the intelli-
? wee community in Novem-
ber 1971, Helms' official title,
Director of Central Intelli-
gence, was expanded to in-
elude new budgetary and orga-
nizational authority over the
whole $5 billion-a-year U.S.
intelligence effort.
The White House had or-
dercd the reorganization be-..
!, cause of its dissatisfaction
with redundant and at times '
contradictory ways ie which '
intelligence information was
! processed and interpreted by ,
the separate intelligence agen-
cies.
? The Origin of Kissinger's dis-
? satisfaction with Helms Is said
to reside ht an intident, early
in 1999, in which Helms made
an intelligence assessment In
volving a fundamental ques-
tion of national security that '
was sharply at odds with the
view advanced by Pentagon
intelligence experts and held
privately in the White House.
The incident was one of?
those rare occurences when
the latent disagreements in
, the intelligence community
surfaced publicly, in this case
In the persons of two rival
chieftains, Helms himself and
Melvin R. Laird, secretary of
Defense.
At issue were the massive
Soviet SS-9 intercontinental
ballistic missiles, whose exist-
ence as a new weapon in the
, Soviet arsenal became known
to intelligence early in the ads
, ministration's first year.
Laird testified before the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee that the new mis-
siles, which are capable of
carrying a much heavier pay-
load than anything deployed
previously, meant that the So-
WASHINGTON STAR
6 December 1972
? Exit Richard Helms.
viol Union sva8 going for it
"first strike capability."
About the same time, Helms
let it be known that in his
assessment the new missiles
did not indicate a shift from
the traditional emphasis on de-
fense, and that the smaller
Minuteman-style SS-11 would
remain the backbone of the
Soviet strategic missile arse-
nal,
Later, in June 1969, both
men appeared together before
the committee in executive
session, and their views were
in some part reconciled:
Helms is said to have deferred
to the administration view,
which was that the Pentagon
Intelligence assessmen t,
championed by Laird, was the
one on which to base policy.
The administration has sub-
sequently based some of its
fundamental decisions in the
nuclear strategy and national
security fields upon that intel-
? ligence judgement. They in-
clude: the decision on an
anti-ballistie missile system
whether to go ahead with
It Isn't official yet, but our usually
ijhpeccable official sources tell us that
*chard M. Helms will soon be stepping
down after six years as director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, pre,suma,bly
td take on a new and important assign-
/Went in the Nixon administration.
Whatever his future job May be, he will
be' sorely missed In the one which he is
14ving.
Of the men who have headed the CIA
ce its inception in 1947, Helms stands
otit as the one truly professional intelli-
gence expert. His career in the spy busi-
ness covers a span of 29 years, beginning
with a fottr-year stint with the Office of
Strategic Servicea in World War II. After
transferring to the newly-formed CIA,
he served as deputy director for plans
tinder General Walter Bedell Smith and
John A. McCone, previous CIA heads.
As director, Helms brought a coolness
of judgment and great administrative
talent to one of the most sensitive and
difficult jobs in the federal government.
Under his leadership, the performance
of the agency, in contrast to past years,
rapid developm" ent of multiple
missile warheads, and basic
negotiating positions in the
strategic arms control talks
with the Soviets.
The Soviet Union has now
clearly shifted to the. SS-9 as
its basic strategic weapon, and ,
in this respect Helms' assess- 1
ment appears in retrospect to ),
have been wrong. ? 4
Coordination of intelligence
assessments was to be a basic
Improvement resulting from
he restructuring of the intel-
ligence, over which Helms
was put in charge in Novem-
ber 1971. But, in fact, during
the past year the Pentagon-
CIA rift over basic intelli-
gence assessments has be-
come more bitter than ever,
according to informed sources
within the community.
The leading candidate to re-
place Helms is authoritatively
reported to be James R.
Schlesinger, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, kl
and a chief architect of a 1
study that shaped the intelli-
gence reorganization.
has been highly discreet and, to the ex-
tent that such things can be judged,'
effective. It is suggested that his depar-
ture from the CIA may have resulted in
Part from a dispute within the intelli-
gence community regarding the deploy-
ment Of Russian nuclear missiles. Yet
from all the 'available evidence, his as-
sessment of the world sittiation ? and
particularly in Indochina, where the CIA
has borne heavy responsibilities ? has ,
been remarkably accurate.
The highly essential business , of in-
telligence-gathering, being necessarily,;
Secret and to some ininds distasteful,,
requires the kind of public confidence
that Helms has been able to provide. As ,
President Johnson remarked at his
, swearing-in ceremony: "Although he
has spent more than 20 years in public ;
life attempting to avoid publicity, he has..
never been able to conceal the fact that ;
he is one of the Most trusted and most
able and most dedicated professional ca-
reer men in this Capital." As director ot
the CIA, Richard Helms has fully justi-
fied that assessment.
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THE LONDON DAILY MAIL
. 4 Dec 1972
Kissinger's 'kiss
deada'. for spy chief...
NEW YORK : 'Henry to ?give adequate adVa'nce
Kissinger, President Nixon's ? Warning of a big North Viet-
top foreign policy adviser, namese offensive last spring.
is reported to have given Nixon Administration aides,
who confirmed that Mr Mins
was leaving. apparently .were
trying to talk a reluctant
James Schlesinger into taking
the tricky CIA Job even
though he Insisted that he
preferred to stay as chairman.
of the Atomic Energy Corn-
mission. ?
Mr Helms, originally named
CIA chief by ex-President
Johnson, is expected to be
given a new Job in the
changes being . made at
Cabinet level or Just below for
He was reported to have the second Nixon Administra;
lobbied for Mr Helms to be, Mon which begins on January
dropped since. the CIA failed 20. -
the 'kiss of death' to
to
rtlellitrd Helms as head of
America's powerful Central
Intelligence Agency. ,
Yelerday, In a telephone
, conversation with Mr Nixon
before he left for the
; latest round of Vietnam
' peace. talki in Paris, Mr
: Kissinger was said to have.
, urged that Mr Ilehns should
be replaced as head of the
, super spy ,agencY.
THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH;
4 Dec 1972
CIA ..chief .to
be replate4
after. c1sh
By Our, Washington Staff
pRIF,S1DENT NIXON has
?. decided to replace Mr
Richard Helms, 59, as
director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, it was
learnt in Washington yes-
terday.
He is expected to be replaced
by Mr James Schlesinger, 43,
head 61 the Atomic Energy
Commission. .
It has been reported that the
CIA has had differences with
-Dr Kissinger's staff in intel-
ligence analysis in recent
months. ? ?
Some reports. say ' that Dr
Kissinger considered that the spy
agency had failed to give
adequate advance warning of
Hanoi's. intention to ?stage its
outright invasion of South Viet-
nam ? when the Communists
opened their Easter offensive
earlier this year.
CI A dispute ? .
The C I A is also reported to
have been at odds with other
intelligence services over the
timing and subsequent handling
of the ludo-Pakistani conflict in
Bangladesh last year. ?
Mr Nixon has let it be known
that he plans to c:ut the White
House staff by half to improved
efficiency. He has lone pressed
for a similar streamlining of
America's intelligence agencies..
Dr Kissinger is to remain as
the Pr es?i d c nt's sped al- adviser
on national security affairs..
Newsweek
December 18, 1972
WASHINGTON STAR
6 December 1972
Helms Shift Not Due
To Rift, Kissinger Saysi
!rPresidential adviser Henry in 1969 over whether ORO
A. Kissinger denied yesterday Soviet Union, with its mas-1
report in Monday's Star-
News that a serious policy
disagreement between him
'ond CIA director Richard M.
Ilehns is a factor behind
Helms' impending resigna-
tion as intelligence director.
, Kissinger indicated in one of pained that Kissinger and
op administration officials
? his Calls from Paris yesterday are concerned that Helms''
that it was "directly con- reassignment away from the
?trary te the truth" to suggest , CIA to another position of
responsibility not be given
a negative interpretation.
Helms' intention to resign1
as director of Central Inten1-1
gence was reported late lastl
week by high administration,
sources, who have Indicatedj
that an official announce-1
rnent is being held up so
Helms can decide whether
to accept the other job being
offered him. There have been
no indications what the new
assignment is to be.
Efforts to reach Helms,
have been unavailing.
sive SS-9 missile, was going,
for a "first-strike" capabil-
ity.
Neither did Kissinger's de-
murral contain a specific
denial that a policy disagree-
ment, in fact, existed.
A White House official ex-
White House official said
'that he was in any way in-
(Strumental in President Nix-
as yet unannounced de-
cision to reassign Helms.
,Kissinger ? was likewise re-
-ported to be appalled at any
inference that Helms should
be stepping down as U.S.
Hfitelligence chief because of
a disagreement between him
and Helms.
c Kissinger's denial did not
,relate to any specific points
in the Star-News account,
, which reported that a conflict
arose over Helms' position
NIXON'S KEEN SCYTME
The great Administration houseclean-
ing continued, but last week Richard
Nixon seemed to be wielding not so
much a broom as a scythe. What had
begun a fortnight ago as a bureaucratic
overhaul assumed the proportions of a
, general purge, as the President sought
; to make room in his topmost ranks for
those who shared his'emphasis on econ-
omy, efficiency and unquestioned politi-
cal loyalty. The new breed of bureau-
' ? crats that Mr. Nixon installed last week
were more conservative and manage-
ment-oriented than their predecessors.
They also displayed an almost uniform
lack of political charisma or clout, which
left them beholden only to the President
and his White House inner circle.
?The exits were just as significant as the
entrances?Mr. Nixon's reorganization
' seemed designed to clear Out those who
were judged too independent, too liber-
al or too outspoken to fit the new Nixoni-
an low profile of a model civil servant.
The casualty list included Cabinet Sec-
retaries Peter Peterson of Commerce and
John Volpe of Transportation, Central
Intelligence Agency director Richard
Helms, Republican National Chairman
Robert Dole and a growing host of lesser
officials who, to their chagrin, found their
? pro forma resignations promptly accept-
ed. Behind the bloodletting, many Wash-
ington observers thought they; detected
the hands of the White House palace
guard led by H.R. IIaldeman ,and John
Erliehman, eager to settle some scores
and break up independent centers of
power. Among the major appointments:
FrederIc15 Dent, 50, a textile manufac-
turer from South Carolina, replaced Pe-
terson at Commerce. The appointment
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was a favor to both Sen. Strom Thur-
mond and the textile industry, whose
respect Dent has earned as a leader in
the fight for stiffer import restrictions. He
Is plainspoken about his distaste for big
government and equally vocal in what
a colleague terms his "deep personal re-
gard, almost love" for Mr. Nixon. A trans-
planted Connecticut Yankee (and grad- .
uate of St. Paul's and Yale) who lost a
leg in a bout with cancer, Dent is the
new Cabinet's only Southerner.
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rwas going to be softie gni of
mass infiltration that would
, perhaps, through some Mys-
tique, become quickly invisi-
ble."
Kirkpatrick said it would ;
have been more feasible to
have iised U.S. bases instead
of those in Guatemala and
WASHINGTON POST 1
3 December 1972 '
Nicaragua fo rthe invasion of implementing national policy,
Cuba because the United In fact, that's the last thing it
means. The capability to '
mount a covert operation is an tors' failure to sectire been
-
exceedingly important capa- rate intelligence. He said inae-
bility for our government to curate intelligence was the ba-
have." sis for the disasterldi ,
ence," he said, "does not Looking back over the I3a "there is no other place to put,
States could have isolated the
brigade and trained the pilots
without disclosure.
"The Bay of Pigs expert-
mean that we should forget Osf .Pigs operation, Kirkpatrickthe blame for that then on the
covert operations as a tool for learned was from the opera- g " ?
aid the most vital lesson agency mountingthe o rat-
, ?
turtors on Kissin
Wambing Inn Pont /NMI Writer
5 in to P ce e s.
-,., By Laurence Stern
; Discretely, quizzically and
somewhat sotto voce, the ' that Henry is in trouble,"
' said a former staff member ; king the diplomatic handl-
question is being floated ,'
, of Kissinger 's national secu- work of his own super nego- !
around the offices, the corn- 1
rity oppornt. "1 am abso- ? Bator, whose image as the .
dors and luncheon tables i
i lutely baffled that he 'should administration's We( emits- . came back from Saigon with
'here such things are i have invested so much of. sary of peace had been nothing nailed down."
djscussed: Is, Henry in t his credibility iti the Oct. 26 Kissinger prides himself
, statement on the settlement. ?
I steadily enhanced by the
I on the precision, caution
trouble? my re.. ! White House, the media and
At ,the same time and immense reflectiveness
- Henry is, of course, Henry ! sped for his intelligence is Kissinger himself? that go into his recommen-
KiSsinger ? the improbable so high that I can't believe Asked at a private lunch dations to the President 'and
glamorcrat who has come to. he was sloppy enough to get
! himself in trouble with the
i Pre.sident."
1
To be sure,/ Kissinger is
er's Status
personify the foreign policy
of the Nixon administration
and, most recently, trig-
under public attack in Sai-
gored the widespread public gon and in such organs of
expectation that "peace is at the American political right
hand" in Vietnam. I as Human Events. It was
As Ambassador William ,T. charged that he had allowed
?
himself to become the In-
strument said In Paris the
of a prospective
other day of the blacked-outsell-out of a beleaguered
final round of negotiations
on Vietnam: "Those who
knew 'are not talking and
those who are talking don't
, know."
But that port of conven-
tional wisdom in this town
is no deterrent, to specula-
tion.
It Is generally conceded
that Kissinger's power
within the intrenucrney is .
vested in only one man,:
Richard M. Nixon, has no ,
public claques and no insti-
tutional bases of support
outside the White house.
F o r s foreign polley
counterpart: in the execu-
tive bureauerney. Secretary
of State William P. Rogers,
he has, as one former aide
put it, "little more than con-
tempt.," The feelings, as best
as it can be ascertained are
mutual.
Even hi the White House
the practical operatives who
jzttnrd the President's doork
awl formulate domestic pot-
ley have no love for the
President's rorcien affairs
adviser, who manages to
dominate hof II Iii,' front
p. ecs and sectetY ('010011,5and xvitose background is
the alien and suspectd
worl
of academia and the Council
on Foreign .
"You hear around town
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recently about such choice- his own public utterances.
lure-as well as the possibil-
He is hot the sort of man
itv thnt he had exceeded his who is given to premature
negotiating mandate with
Hanoi, Kissinger shot back
his reply:
statements oh television, or
Who Would, in fact, relish
the role of scapegoat ?
even in a close election
more . This IS the composite view
"Do you think was horn of some half a dozen men
yesterday?"
Who worked with him in
It is a widely field convic-
close and senior capacities
during the past four years.
ally, the Thieu government. .tion in the foreign affairs?
community?although no of- "In these negotiations
But he is also being taxed ficial will voice it for attrib- Henry has been operating as
by supporters of George Mc- td,mn?that the diplomatic an autocrat," one of them
theatrics of the past few, emphasized. "He holds' .the
weeks between Washington reins tightly and operates
, and Saigon have ben politi- outside the machinery of
cal window-dressing. government. This is not the
Govern for abetting what
McGovern called a politi-
cally Inspired "fraud" by
suggesting that merely a
few. "nuances" of diplomatic'
dialogue lay in the path of a The objective, in this
S .view, is to make the inevita-
ettlement. The differences
ble settlement between
cotild be resolved, Kissinger
promised on Oct. 26, in "not Washington and Hanoi more
more then three or four ' palatable to the Republican
days" of negotiating, ,, . right and also to soften the
protests from the Thieu goy-
As it turned out, the dif- ' erninent.
ferences included questions 1 In this scenario Kissinger
long central to any settle- ; has, to some extent, played
the interim role of fall-guy
went of the war: the ores- i
1 for the President, who main-
cute of North Vietnamese taineci loftily throughout
,
troops in South Vietnam that he would not be stam-
and the nature of the tripar- peded into anything but
titc Council of National Ree- peace with honor.
onciliation .and Concord, Kissinger may, in fact,
have been forced to play the
which 'Mimi brooded as a role more heavily than he
disguised form of coalition intended by underestimat-
government. ing the, obduracy of the
In the ensuing weeks the Thieu government against
the draft agreement . made
inference began to find its
nubile last month in Hanoi
way into print that Kis- and Washington,
singer had concurred with "Henry may well have he-
Hanoi on terms that Presi- lieved he could sell Thieu
dent Nixon was not pre- on the nereement," said an-
other former staff aide who
pared to impose on the
worked closely with Kis-
Thiett government, at least one nett(e? Cr before
singer on Southeast Asia o
Christ
not in three or four days. policy, "He thinks he can . as.
President is a -cold
13 political op- ?,
?
1
kind of thing you can sub-
mit to the bureaucracy.
"The great flaw is that as
the negotiations beconie
More sensitive and the
stakes get higher, the pas-
sion for secrecy becomes
overwhelming, and it be-
comes an autocratic exer-
cise. Opinions and options
begin to fade away."
In such an atmosphere, It
was repeatedly pointed out,
Kissinger. and through hint
the President, may have nits-
calculnted the intensity or
Saigon's response to the pro- ,
spective settlement ? much ,
as the Johnson administra-
tion did four years ago at:,
the beginning of the Paris ,
negotiations.
The question that is cen-
tral to Kissinger's future In
Washington Is whether he
will have expended 'ton
much of his own political
credits in the quest for at
Vietnam settlement, even if ?
The
Was the President retitidt- sell anyone anything. But he
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(Tater," said one former
White House aide. "If sonic-
thing comes unstuck in
harts, the onus for this par-
ticular settlement, its things ;
stand, Iles fully on 'Henry.
The President has left some
water between himself and
Henry on this agreement."
It is something'of an Irony
that the Vietnam settle.
meg, if it is achieved, will
Appear at least 'publicly to
he the centerpiece of his
contribution. Even before
coming to Washington, Kis.
singer made It clear that he
.considered the Vietnam con-
flict as peripheral to the
.proper concerns of the
United States.
At n Ilarynrd dinner not
long ago, Kissinger was con-
fronted by a young profes-
sor who cited the enormous
human cost of the Vietnam
war In lives and social dis-
ruption:
"That's a very interesting
point you raise," Kissinger
replied with measured cool-
ness. "f3ut I really don't
think it Is relevant to the
discussion this evening."
Those who speak of Kis.
singer's policies as amoral
cite such examples as this,
or the famous exchanges
during the deliberations of
the National Security Coun-
cil's special Action Group
on the 'tido-Pakistan war.
But Kissinger has repeat--?
edly said that the important
foreign policy initiatives
(luting the 'first four years
of the Nixon Administration
will, in historical retrosPeeti
he I he moves toward stable
relationshIps with the Soviet
Union and China.
As to his own Intentions,
in this transitional time of
Arrivals Mid departures, Kis-
singer has only let it be
known that he plans to take
it long vacation after the
conelusion of the Paris ne-
gotiations.
It would he difficultto
neine, with Vietnam out of
? the way as a torment to
A Indica n :meld y, that he
would not want to purstle
hr vi .Rion or a world climate
erwparablc In that wtiich
rolitoxed the Congress of 111-1
mina more than a tenttO?I
and a half ago.
Om, oj his famous social
pve Hipp:metes is that
"power is the tilt i mate
anhrodiciac," There Is no ev- ?
'demi, yet Ilint the poor ref-
tru?o hot' from Flprrill hi
Na Zi Germany who- Is now
ringaryd in re-shaping tbe
world, is ready to give ttp
the bouquet of power.
\ nd itt Kt?y Biscayne vr!o
terday, I `r:idpni Ni ?on
the .sote custodian of Kit
-showed tin
disposition toward lar,ing It
?
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6 December 1972
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Four More Years:
Kissinger's
THE EXTENSION of
Henry KIssinger'S 'jbb to
what now looks like ad
eight-year term carries
within itself the 'seeds of dis-
aster, unless he makes some
drastic changes in his own
method of operation.
? The next stage of the in-
ternational power game will
be infinitely more complex
than it was In the last four
years, There will he many
more players, and they will
be acting at cross-purposes.
They will be playing for the
.biggest stakes ever, for A
"generation of peace" that
should open the way to a
world without wars, and, for
Nixon and Kissinger, to a
place in history unsurpassed
by Any figure of antiquity or
modern times.
But they have only four
years in which to do it, and
the danger is that they may
push history more than it is
, willing to be pushed. "We
? are moving with history," as
a good Marxist would put it;
"and moving history our-
selves," Only the words are
Mr. Nixon's.
The Nixon-Kissinger for-
mula that would allow EU-
rope, China anti Japan to
join the two main superPow-
? ers. the United States and
, Russia, In a five-sided power
structure to keep the
world's Peace, is viewed
with suspicion outside the
White House and the Krem-
lin, Even the Kremlin has
Its doubts, but the outsiders
will have to be coaxed and
bullied into an international
? framework which the two
superpowers may design In
the interest of all?but
which the others will be-
? lieve is in the interest of the
two.
THE itiNiTED sprAms
has already browbeaten
both Japan and Europe into
accept in!! an Internal long
C 0 ti 0 m ic niTIMeniCtit
WhiCh as beint!
mainly in the American in-
terest?anti they fear that
there is more to come. The
Si no-Soviet dispute been it in
earnest when Nikita
Khrushchev tried, as rekint.:
saw it, to make a global.deal
r v
ole
WASHINGTON STAR
29 November 1972
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WASHINGTON CLOSE-UP
With President Eisenhower
at China's expense, Wash..'
ington and Moscow came to--
gether to itnpose. a settle-
ment on North and South
Vietnam, both of whom
were screaming "betrayal."
The White House and the
Kremlin are already work."
lug to impose a similar deal ,
on their Israel and Arab
clients.
This is certainly in the in-
terests of, peace, and small
countries in Indochina or in
the Middle East may be told
that if they don't like it,
they can lump it. But Eu-
rope, China, and Japan are a
different proposition. They ,
will have to be talked into it
in a protracted series of in-
terlocking negotiations that
cannot possibly be com-
pleted in four years.
If obstacles threaten to in-
terfere with Mr. Nixon's
time-table, he is apt to in-
crease the pressure to thb'
very limit, as he did, for in-'
stance, when he ordered the
bombingand mining of
North Vietnam. But this al-
ways carries the risk . of
crossing the limit, and en-
dangering the whole intri-
cate structure of negotiation.
When the international.
power game becomes st)
much more elaborate than it
was in Mr. Nixon's first
term, the sheer quantity of
Kissingcr's work will grow
so greatly as to threaten a
rapid deterioration in its
quality.
KISSINGE,11 nr.FusEs to
rely on the State Depart-
ment, but his own staff cnn-
not provide the detailed dip-
lomatic footwork which will
now !me to be integrate
with his own thinking and
activities.
These weaknesses will be'
greatly multiplied unless an
altogether new working for-
mula is developed for the
at-
tce.'et new situation
which we are now approach-
ing. if the State Department
has to be bypassed, and
there may be good rensmis
for thus, some other frame-
work must be devised, or
the "generation of peace"
may prove to be 65 elusive
as many people think ills,
e 1012, view. zone,
6
Kissinger
(itching as a
Hobby
By FRANK GETLEIN
Oriana Fallaci, one of the ?
best interview reporters any-
wheret recently published an
interview with Henry A.
Kissinger In L'Europeo?des-
cribed as a "left-of-center"
magazine?a description that
carries the fascinating impli-
cation that someone knows
where center is.
? It probably was the best
Kissinger interview yet, even
better than the one that left
the French woman interview-
er convinced that Kissinger
had first made love to her
and then abandoned her, de-
lightful as that was.
The Fallaci interview was
so good that Its English tran-
' lation immediately evoked
'from its subject one of those
not-quite-denials in which one
hopes to create the illusion of
errors a it d misstatements
without actually bringing on
? the transcripts. Thus: Some
of the quotes were taken out
of context, he felt, and others
may have been garbled in
translation.
But? his not-quite-denial
reached beyond the limits of
the form to the essential char-
acter of the man when he con-
cluded that he granted the
interview at the request of
the Italian ambassador and
added, "Why I agreed to it
I'll never know."
In that sentence may be
seen the typical public figure
or celebrity largely created
by the media, enjoying his
media existence and at the
same time complaining about
it.
It is a pattern familiar to
Americans at least since
Brenda and Cobina, the two
original celebrities of modern
times, from mid-Depression
to Pearl Harbor.
The same combination has
been observed in such classic
examples of the species as
Frank Sinatra in his right-.
? jab period, assorted members
of the Gabor family, Liberace
and Salvador Dail.
Besides Kissinger's ? self-
characterization as a lone-
some cowboy, "who leads the
convoy, alone on his horse,..
who comes into town all alone
on his horse." the most sig-
nificant point in the inter-
view was the one In which the
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subject, known' throughout' Only amusing, a hobby. No-
the world for his intimate body spends much Unie on a
dinners with starlets in res- hobby,"
taurants that automatically This completes the circle
alert the press to his pres- because, as Kissinger must
ence, talked of his reputation know, for many women ?
as a ladies' man. as Indeed for many Men
Kissinger himself is chiefly
* ? amusing, a kind of hobby that
"Partly exaggerated," he cornea with the daily paper,
'said of his rep in this field, like horoscopes and a chuckle
"but partly It is true," adding for today.
that his image as a swinger ' XimfoubfedlY much of his
g p
has helped him in his endless followin consists of eople
titillated by his stepping out
negotiations because it "rens-
with burlesque st ars and
Mired" Le Due The, Chou En-
mai and Mao Tse_tung_rdi of tripping the light fantastic
while other administration
whom seem to need a rather ,
mem.
special brand of reassurance. bers stay at home read-
At the heart of the question,
ing inspirational literature.
however, Kissinger ? once
But there is a solid core of
.
more acting In the central I Kissinger fans who exercise
tradition of the minor vatide. t a kind of connoisseurship on
villian chasing the autograph his more *eighty manifesta-
seekers down the street so as tions.
to complain about them ? Until recently, Most of these
said: "For me, women are fans agreed that his finest.
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7 December 1972
r ?
Takino. Exception .
?
?
o
Chester Bowles
On Appointment:
Of Ambassadors
,.ON 'ME editorial 'page of 'the Washington:
_Post of Nov. 29. there wrtS an article by
Charles W. Yost, a' former delegate and U. S.
Ambassador to ,the Unit rd Nations. which
was entitled "Ainbassadorships to the
lltIhi-
r'st. Bidders." In it Anabassador Yost ex-
pressed his concern that in the weeks ahead,
a 11111;0 number or amhassadors will ho
pointed, the principal oinalificatiims of whont.
will he the extent of their financial support,
. President Nixon's recent campaign. ? ?
Although f share Ambassador V'est's eon .
cern about 1 he a mhiassadorial choices which'
are likely to he node. I cannot agree that
appointments by Republican and Demo-
cratic administraidons in this regard havO.
the otiter. ;A a .fortner V.S. wolove
:Hobo. to hodia nod heroleff the 011ie?.
of Price Al Imittiorraimi Suring World
War IL
been ahovJ the same." I can vouch for the
' fart that PIT:410111 Kennedy's ambassadorial
appointments In 1901 when I was Ilfulersee?
retary of State were remarkably free of. po-
lit lent 'implicat ions,
In t,ny first discussion with President 1