GOOD MORNING....NOW THAT UNDERSECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE LIONEL OLMER HAS ABBOUNCED HIS INTENTION TO RESIGN JUNE 14, SOURCES CLOSE TO THE CIA SAY DIRECTOR WILLIAM CASEY FAVORS MR. OLMER FOR THE NUMBER TWO CIA POST HELD BY
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ARTICLE APPEARED'
PEE ~'1~--
Good morning.... Now that
Undersecretary of Commerce for
international trade Lionel Omer
has announced is intention to
resign 31 une 1 sources close to
the CIA vsa Director i i&i
Casey favors Mr. O mer or t e
number two CIA post SeTd~y
John McMahon. Rumors have
been circulating m mte genre
circles for the past ew
months tfaTtFe-p-UTFITirector
o McMahon will re ire a t e
en o une or persona reasons.
CIA officials ismisse t e
rumors and say McMahon has no
plans to retire. "It's been going
on for months;' one official said of
the rumors. "And he's still here."
Mr. McMahon and Mr. Casey
reportedly have clashed over CIA
policy. According to Hoover
Institution analyst Arnold Beic-
hman, Mr. McMahon scuttled a
Casey plan to bring 65 Soviet
POWs from Afghanistan for a U.S.
press conference and blocked
three of Casey's top-level
CIA appointments.
WASHINGTON
TIMES
6 June 1985
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