CIA DEPUTY DIRECTOR DISPUTES ALLEGATIONS OF POLICY DIFFERENCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600190023-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 7, 1986
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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CIA DEPUTY DIRECTOR DISPUTES ALLEGATIONS OF POLICY DIFFERENCES
The following is a statement issued today by Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence John N. McMahon. The White House on 4 March 1986 announced
Mr. McMahon's decision to resign from CIA effective 29 March 1986.
"I have been dismayed and angered by the reaction of those in the press
and special interest groups who have sought to interpret my retirement from
CIA as an expression of discontent with the President's policies. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
To set the record straight, I support the President's policies in
Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the Third World at large and execute his directives
to the fullest extent. Ironically, while some in the media were touting my
alleged disapproval of administration policy, I was testifying before the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and later to the House Armed
Services Committee on behalf of the President's Nicaragua proposal. I fully
subscribe to the President's policies as articulated by Secretary Shultz in
his 27 February statement before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and
requested that the Shultz statement be made part of the record of my own
testimony.
Those who know me are familiar with my strong belief that intelligence
officials should respond to inaccuracies through the oversight process and not
by making personal public statements. I have had no need to respond to
earlier attacks on me because I was confident that the people who counted
watched my actions and gave no credence to unsubstantiated claims. I must
draw the line when these uninformed and erroneous reports provide fodder--as
they indeed already have--for propagandists in the Sandinista press in
Nicaragua and others abroad who seek to denigrate this administration and its
policies."
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USA TODAY
5 March 1986
WASHINGTON
^ The CIA's No. 2 man, John McMahon, is retiring after
34 years in government, effective march 29. The White
House accepted his resignation Tuesday. Robert M. Gates,
the deputy director for intelligence, was named to replace
McMahon.
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