REAGAN'S CHOICE OF NO. 2 MAN ROBERT GATES TO SUCCEED WILLIAM CASEY AT THE CIA WASN'T AS HARD AS IT APPEARED.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301260007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 16, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
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ARTICLE APPEARED U .Z). NhWS & WORLD REPORT
ON PAGE 16 February 1987
STAT
Reagan's choice of No. 2 man Robert
Gates to succeed William C
asey at t e
wasn't as hard as it appeared. In-
stead of the long list of contenders
hashed over by the media, the President
had boiled it down to.just two real possi-
bilities-Gates and former Senate Ma-
jority Leader Howard Baker. When
Baker didn't jump at the job, Gates was
the only one left in the running.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/15: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301260007-0