WHAT DID IN SORENSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100220007-2
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 19, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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' .'. Theodore Sorensen's fail likely to mend the agency's gambles in pursuit of peace.
dire to be confirmed is -a political and administrative Among these people,
warning that Congress will fences. there exists a fierce hos-
not balk at resuming--a .As Sorensen,-. himself tility toward. the CIA..-This'-
familiar tug-of-war to affect wrote'in 1963, "personal-' "sentiment has many expres-
the tilt of president Cart- ities play an intangible but sions.' It was apparent in
er's foreign policy. '. . - surprisingly . important the eagerness of the com-
Charges that Sorensen..; role" in government coun- mittee that was headed by:'
i s improperly handled clas.si? ells. Those who didn't. like Sen. Frank Church, -D-*
s: fled material .-were the nub... him could be alarmed by his Idaho, to prosecute a for-
of the ' case against him...' pacifist - leanings. john~ mer CIA director,' Richard
,,Sorensen, was "actually a `.Kennedy counted Sorensen : Helms, for. covering the
tight-mouthed official, ex -'a key adviser in_crisis situa- agency's small part in the,
tremely loyal and circum- tions, but he always. took overthrow of Chile's:
spect in all matters relating pains -to keep 'the public Communist government
to national security.. If he from learning that Sorensen These pressures attest a'
left the White House in 1964,. was involved,. because he readiness to embarrass the
with some ". classified ..? did not want it said that one nation and do grave injus="'
papers, it was because he of his adv% had d
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was rushing to write an to engage tbat., it. - spank the CIA.
embrasive history of the - ' -The.... ? .:.;ationsof - The sentiment also stir
Kennedy years...>.:?
1 Sorensen s draft status faces in hostile -articles .
-gained' 'weight in many- which replay Communist:
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rom the militancy of- accusations against the'
fired. as a handle for the 'the pacifist stance which he. `CIA: A recent one, widely
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published, revived -a two-=
sons that tarter had made New York politics. As he year-old charge by a Cuban'
a bad choice. Sorensen was' testified this'; week, `-he''agriculture minister that;
basically beaten by' people- would. clearly have been - the CIA had spread disease -
who had worked with him
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