INSIDE REPORT - PRESIDENTIAL TALENT SCOUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100080104-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: April 16, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON.
~. ',~ - By Rowland Evans and Robert Nuvak .
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Raborn as head of the Central Intelligence Agenc ~., vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission.',
acy. now as a i e ca net ull of 'such dossiers.'
~'` For example, 'Republican politicians were pusl~ini(
e surpr se se ec ono re ire am rr a half dozen different possibilities for a Republican
wielded in Washington, today by a 48-year-old caree
(CIA) was another sign of the quiet but pervasive, powe
Nobody dreamed of James Wadsworth, an... Eastern'
establishment Republican who was. President Eisem'~
hbwer's disarmament negotiator. ~ ,~
.~ Macy was buried in bureaucratic obscurity as chat ~ ,~ But Macy did. lie rrached into his file and out,
man of the Civil Service Commission until Nov. 2 ; 2 popped the Wadsworth credentials. Armed with Macy's'
,Although he's kept that job, Macy's far more powcrf -memo on Wadsworth, the President telephoned Wads=''~
'role is working as President Johnson's talent scout. worth and within 24 hours the FCC had a highly re=
~ '~ , By recommending men for high office and havin ~;; spected lawyer as a new member. .
? automatic ar~,f~s 1 to press those recommendations on th ~ Let it be >lddrd that olltics is still a vital in edient
President, Itl+t ~'t, influence has soared=well above th ~' in Presidential appointments. 'Macy clears his prospects f?
'exercised b~ ~,~t, t~Iih Dungan, talent scout for Preside ~ with Presidential lieutenants C1lfton Carter at the Demo-.~
Kennedy (a~u now Ambassador to Chile). ~ : cratic National Committee- and Lawrence. F. O'Brien at`?
:~? ;Moreovt.r, Macy has alleviated the dangerous tale h> the White House, among others.
~shorl.age in Washington we reported in January. Wh ~ But Mr, Johnson hasp changed his emphasis during
makes this l+a rt.icularly impressive is the high caliber . I, 16 months as President. A year aga Presidential inti-
the appointn~,?E!n'sr.. , ~ ~ ; mates heard private complaints about the lack of Texans.:
~~ . ;Adm. Rut~orn's selection for the ultra-sensitive po. ~ ,,
and Southerners in office. But ,now most a ointments
o>: CIA dirt~Z.Cbr reflects the Johnson~Macy teamwor pp
come from :outside Mr. Johnson s political base (spe-,
a's it: has evi+h~ed the .past four months. Raborn was n ~ cifically from California, the District of Columbia, Con,;
;the choice o.E any group. He was John Macy's choice. ~~ ~ aryland' and New York ,~ _, , .r - ,+.i
,,~ necticut M ) , .
? Any number of famous names had bren bandie ,
about Washing;ton ~~. likely chief at CIA replacing ~~ph ! ~ . And. ~n staff conferene~s, .the President puts' an= :`
McC,one. Inside the ~ agency itself there was strong sent creasing emphasis on more; phi . Beta Kappas t> ; top,
ment for CIA's Richard Helms, a talented intelligen jobt3..Tht~s,~John Macy s powt?r,is understandable. t; , ;~;
~ veteran, rejected .for fear he might not have the weig ~ "`'"' ........ .+'~"" `?o t-~s.+Hnir YMt H~rotd ~nM-n. Ine, : ~ :~~:~ ,.,..: w',~;
iore, he needs a' CIA chief that Congress trusts.
. The President bought Macy's recommendation i ?'
~. scantly. Raborn (who' never was approached by Mac ) ~,
was summoned to the LBJ Ranch and offered the j
At CIA, Heims becomes No. 2, with a clear track o'
~ ~ become Raborn's hei . '
~; 'But the really 1tscInating side o! this select
~: process . is.~ the fact that Macy originally prepared s; ,
,~ dossier nn .Raborn .without any spetafic fob in mi '
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` Congressional watchdog, committee on the CIA. The -~~
' popular; on Capitol Hill and has the prestige to sta~d
'+ Q4. Although Congress frowns on military m~n j,
ment, displaying his managerial skill. ~ '
CIA function. - -
Q3. Raborn's handling of the brilliantly success 1'
' R1. Raborn is trusted by the military and the CI ..`r
~it2. As the father of the Navy's Polaris missl e..
It was at this point that Macy dispatched a tecr t,.>a;
typically voluminous memorandum to the President. is `~
surprise recommendation: Raborn. Macy backed up is j
choice with these four points: ff
Macy's four points. Mr. Johnson wants no part: of a `~