WHO WILL CONTROL THE CIA -- OUTSIDERS OR THE OLD BOYS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807500041-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: August 2, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/10 :CIA-RDP90-009658000807500041-0
ARixCLE APPEARED
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David ~ise~
.THE 4JASHIPlGTON POST
2 August 1981
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William J. Casey has survived as CIA director, at
least for the moment, but the wrong conclusions will
probably be drawn from the Sensts~ investigation of
_ hi3 activitie9 and the pratfall from power of.his spy-:-
master, Mae Hugel ? - =- ~= Y~ ?~`.-.~ == ?`
Tho moral of the story, some will assume; i9 that the
CIA should be left to the professmnal, ,That, of
course, is precisely what the-powerfrilhetwork of Old
Boys, both inside and outside the CIA, would likethe
public to think The intelligence profeseionaL~, the ca-
reer spies, prefer to regard"the agency" as their pri-
vetspreserve. Outeideisare poachers.- :" ; _. ~ :.:
While the controversy may have appeared on the
surface to be a struggle between the Senate intelli-
gence committee and Casey, the rest s:ruggls was
over who will control the CIA. Arrayed on one side
were Casey and the president, who gingerly sup-
ported his CIA director. On the other side were' the
Old Boys, the present and former CIA professionals,
and their aIIies on Capitol Hill. . -.
It was an old battle played out agairs~with a new:
cast of characters Back in 1965; President Lyndon
Johnson appointed Adm. William F. Rabom Jr., the.
man responsible for the development of the Polaris
missile, as CIA chiel~.The Okf Boys were annoyed.
Within weeks, stories found their way into print re-
-portingthat atCIA meetings Rabom was a muddle of
confusion, "so unlettered in international poL'tics," as .
-Newsweek put it,. "that he could not pronounce'or
even remember the names of some foreign capital'
and chiefs of state." Six months Iater,,Raboris was out
- as CIA director. With the admiral piped ashore,-John-
. son named a profeeaional, Richard Helms, tothe pock
- .Besides Reborn and Casey, at least two other out'.
alders who served as CIA directors.were targeted .by .
the professionals President Nixon named Jame9 A.
Schlesinger to the job in 1973. Schlesinger ~ fired ' a'
number of Old Boys, arousing much ire within-the
agency. Under Jimmy Carter; Adm. Stansfield Turner
managed to survive as CIA chief, but many old agency .
hands refer to him mockingly as "the Admiral."
The current flap had its unobtrusive beginnings late
in Marrh when Casey quietly moved John McMahon
out as deputy director for operation (the CIA's covert .
side) to head intelligence and analysis. Then, on'May
11, Casey tapped Hugel, who had worked with him in
. the Reagan campaign, to be the DDCI. ; ~ ' .
Only fous d~ later, on May 15, Cord bfeyer, the
covert-operator-turrud-columni,t, surfaced Hugel's
name, revealing the appointment of "a rank?ama-
teur" to head the agencyrs.cloalFand=dagger direo~-.~
torate-The draimahadl~egun,:.:-i;;::r'`- H- ~~~-.,= .
`Two brothers, forri-er- business: aseociatee~ of-the
Brooklyn-born Hugel, went to The Washington Poet.
On July 14, within hours of the newspaper's pubGca-
. tion ofcharges ofimproper orillegal business activities .
'.:by Hugel, he 'had resigned;..There were, those who
::argued, albeit not seriously, that the disclosures only
proved Hugel's superior qualifications For the job. Ac-
cording to the ~ Hugel tapes and other revelations in
The. Post, the spymaster had threatened to kill slaw- .
yer who got in his way, warned his business associate ~
that he would hang him by the testicles and admitted
(irr his. unpublished autobiography) that he was a liar,
informer and a bunko artist. To top it all, he beat the
CIA lie detector. What finer background could any-
onehave to head the CIA's dirty tricks division?
' But Hugel went quickly down the tube. Perhaps;
one anonymow ~".life House official ~speCUlated,
with some help from `-`former intelligence officials."
Whether anyone; inside or outside the CIA greased
the ways for Hugel's fall, remains, like so much ~
about the agency,' clouded in mists. But ft is very ~
clear thatCasey's appointment of Hugel, a onetime ~
sewing machine manufacturer, rankled the CIA pro-,
` fessionals like nothing in recent memory. -r
From the tree-sh$ded lanes of Langley to the Fed-
eral-style homes of Georgetown, the sputtering could .
be heard wherever old spooks gathered. It was as
though a busboy had suddenly been made a IVfem-
ber ofthe Ctuh Unheard ofl
On the very day that Hugel resigned, stories mys-
teriously surfaced noting that a federal judge-two ~
months earlier on May 19-had ruled that Casey
and-others had "omitted and misrepresented facts',
to investors in Multiponics, InG, a company that
owned farm acreage' in the' South. ` In .succeeding
days, Casey's .image came. to resemble nothing. so
much as a series of ducks in a carnival shooting gal-
lery. One duck carried a sign reading "Multiponics."
.Others read "Vesco," "1TT," or had similar labels of
:cases. in which the,CIA director's name had figured
in the past. No sooner would one duck be shot down .
than anothei would pop up.. ; .. , ,, '.-~..= ~ .
Casey had concealed a $10,000 gift,'said `one'
story. Casey had links to a New Jersey garbage
man who might have links to the Mafia, said an-
. other.~Soon Barry Goldwater and other influential
Republicans were calling for Casey's resignation.
In the midst of it all, Samuel and Thomas McNell,
Hagel's accusers, vanished ' . ~ '
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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/10 :CIA-RDP90-009658000807500041-0