THE PERISCOPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100100012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 20, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE PERISCOPE
again cloak church news. Newsmen now are
quietly lobbying for a permanent Vatican press
office headed by an American priest.
the Budget and the War
ose ame
~traints on military budget planners have been
erned. Defense Secretary McNamara has or-
ered his planners to spend any amount needed .
o save lives, to slash any programs not directly
nvolved in the war, such as GI housing, re-
earch, new weapon projects and maintenance.
Indecision in Nebraska
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3anoi has decreed a special honor for Norman
. Morrison, the American Quaker who burned
imself alive at the Pentagon as a protest against
.S. policy in Vietnam. A stamp bearing Morri-
on's portrait is now on sale in Vietnam.
Double Trouble
hen General Motors' answer to or s as -
elling Mustang finally goes on the market, it
ill find Ford has doubled the ante. Chevrolet
laps to field aMustang-style car (now called the
anther) by October 1967. By that time, Ford's
ercury division will have its own version of the
e ras a s ov. ran orrison ~s s
bout running for the U.S. Senate next year
against the GOP's Carl Curtis ), despite urging
orn LBJ himself. Reason: he doesn't want the
bernatorial nomination to go to Lt. Gov.
hilip Sorenson (brother of the formor JFK aide,
ed). Morrison thinks Sorensen would lose be-
f rconservative Nebraska.
Lt. Colin Kelly III: A hero's son
Kelly's Boys
CIt1-chief?VVillam'h. Raborn is fighting to st
what he considers a campaign ~ by some of h
is over high-1?val 1?Aks of information critical
his administration. He has already exiled a
ton aide to the- field and others may follow.
Col. Joe M. Bean: A battle remembered:
Capt. Kelly
n
olin Kelly made a daring bomber attack on a
apanese cruiser in Lingayen Gulf. lie lost his
ife, but became America's first World War II
ero. FDR awarded him a posthumous Distin-
guished Service Cross and prolnised his then 19-
month-old son automatic appointment to West
Point. Dwight Eisenhower honored FDR's
pledge but Colin Kelly III took the competitive
Now 25, Ke11y (West Point, '63) is a first lieu-
tenant and aide de camp to the chief of staff of
the U.S. Army.Seventh Corps in West Germany.
A qualified airborne ranger, Kelly lives with his
wife, Susie, and infant son, Colin Brent, in an
apartment near corps headquarters at Stuttgart.
"I'm very proud of my father," he says, "but I
want to keep away from any sensationalism:'
Another who had a persona sta a in t at
bombing run of long ago is Joe 1VI. Sean, Kelly's
"navigator and the last man to parachute after
the B-17 had been shot up by four Japanese
planes. Bean, who retired from the Air Force
last year as a lieutenant colonel, made it to
Bataan and later to Australia. Now 49 and areal-
estate salesman. in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
where he lives with his wife, Jane (they have
three children), Bean recalls that the war started
for the Kelly crew two days before Pearl Harbor
when their plane was fired upon during a photo
reconnaissance flight over Formosa. Bean is un-
easy these days because, he says, "there is a
striking similarity between the outlook of Amer-
icans immediately before Pearl Harbor and their
attitude today. We assumed our military forces
could handle the situation without too much
disruption of'our daily routine."
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