(Classified) CHOICE PREDICTED AS SECRETARY OF ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200380007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Paul Choic' Predicted
As Secretary of army`;
By John G. Norris
Staff Reporter
secretary Norman ' . au , a ov-;
ernment career man, is reported to have the inside track'
,for appointment as Secretary of the Army next month,
When the job is expected to become vacant.
Deputy Defense Secretary!
,Roswell Gilpatric definitely
"will resign early next month,
Pentagon sources said, and
Army Secretary C y r u s R.
Vance is regarded as a cinch
to succeed him.
Vance had been picked by
,the late President Kennedy
for the No. 2 Pentagon post,
on Defense Secretary Robert
S. McNamara's recommenda-
tion, these sources said. Pres-
ident Johnson, of course, will
Picture on Page A13.
select a successor to Gilpatric,
but he was responsible, when
a Senator, for bringing Vance
to public life as a special
counsel of Senate space and
missile investigating com-
mittees.
Paul, the Pentagon's man-
power chief, is highly regard-
ed by McNamara and report-
ed to be the most likely candi-
date for the Army post. Th
'Defense Secretary has fol .
!lowed a policy of promoting]
members of his Pentagon!
team to higher posts as they;
become vacant, and Mr. Ken i
,nedy backed his choices.
,, Whether President Johnson:
will follow suit remains to be:
seen, but normally Cabinet of-'
ficers have the deciding say!
in choosing their aides.
Assistant Navy Secretary'
Kenneth E. BeLieu, another
former Senate aide of Mr',
Johnson, also has been men-,
tioned for. the Army Secre-1
taryship but he is more likely}
to be promoted to Under Sec-i
retary of` the Navy, if reports;
.that the present holder of that;
.that Paul B. Faye Jr., plans;
o resign prove'true.
Paul,. 44, is a graduate of;
dale _ and _th?..: University _ of;
Virginia Law School, Afters
service as a Navy officer in'
the South Pacific during'
World War II, and a brief
stint with a New York law,
firm. he joined the Economic'
Cooperation Administration in'
1948.
He was deputy director of
the Foreign Operations Ad-;
ministration in 1955 and then!,
served with the CIA, before'i
coming to the Pentagon as
McNamara's assistant for leg
islative affairs in January,'
1961.
Pentagon General Counsel
John T. McNaughton has been.
mentioned as a possible suc-'
cessor to Paul If he becomes
Army Secretary. Solis Hor-
witz, a McNamara trouble-,
shooter and former Senate
aide to Mr. Johnson, also. is in
line for promotion, possibly to'
be Pentagon general counsel.
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