PERISCOPING THE NATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140049-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 12, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT -- With the big post-,
Cuba probe completed, Robert ' Kennedy has
:av,-ii JFK two nanu?s as replacements for soon-
to-tech (I:\ Thiel Allen Dulles. If the President
w.uits a military nuul, Bobby suggests Gen.
NIaxwell "Taylor (who helped in the investiga-
tion); if it's to he it civilian, he favors 1.)eptity
Attornev General Bvrot, (\\'hizzcr) \Vhitc.
STATE DEPARTMENT-Everybody got into
the. act durint; the Trujillo affair. JI"K's brother
Robert came over for a special briefing from
Secretary Busk. Brother-in-law Stephen Smith
stood 2 -hour vigil in the "situation rootn'? set
up after (:nha to keep the White Milk informed
on crises. Rusk ordered silence to all queries,
but press secretary Salinger issued-from Paris
--the first official confirtnatirnt. of Dictator
Trujillo's death.
AIR FORCE IIQ. - It isn't public' yi?t but the
Asr. Force has lost its long battle to keep the
B-47. Secretary McNamara has ordered that all
1,000 of the big jet bombers be' gone by. 1964.
Air generals; have been 'arguing this eliminates
carriers for a,,,nuclear strike equal to 1 million
I liroshitna-size ;A-bombs.
Behind the NMvN
WHITE 110 USE - There was rejoicing here
when JFK left for his visits to Paris rind Vienna.
Why? Staffers got a. rare opportunity to put
their desks, files, and cor`rer,pondence in order.
"The pace slows down so.mitch with JFK gone
that it doesn't seem like - tie same place,"
one commented.
HOUSE CLOAKROOM Politics, being what it
is, don't he surprised if the Democrats, despite
the roasting Ike gave them last w~ek, try to
enlist his support to push JFK's Iureign-aid pro-
grain through Congress.
NASA -HEADQUARTERS - Far out as it is, that
$60 million space laboratory for the manned
moon shot will figure
political logrolling. The lab's location.'b-~p for
grabs and getting it for his dtstricf of state
would he a feather in any tongi'essmati s' cap.
One kev item in the lab, incidentally, will be
it nx,nstroos centrifuge -capable- of spinning a
three-man capsule up to peak-gravity loads.
Washington Wire
PENTAGON-Expect .Maj. Gen. Edwin A.
Walker, the John Birch Society sympathizer who
cvpunanded the 24th Infantry Division overseas,
toretikie sooli. A just-completed Army investiga-
tion finds "substance" in charges that Walker
branded Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and.
expect Presider Kennedy to d9n Walker any
'
pft. (Walker,
new command alter reading the
51, has been in the service for t34 years.)
SENATE CLOG ROOj I anyone has
doubts that foreig aid farces rough. going this
ear, a look at the r ster of the Senates. oreign
y
Relations Committee ll end Ahe'&'Tbiff of the
seventeen members ar up for re-elcetitttt in, . 1962
-and tiefendittg.big fp ign?aid:spending ranks
its one -of* the poorest w to win yotesy`<
CAPITOL HILL'- tworld(lit. "ses or no, Congress
always has time for the little niceties.: Ho
bristles at any hint that it is les~, thaurequal with
the Senate,. worked out a cones date withSenate
President pro ter Carl 'Haydden\, last' 'weak. Its
terms: The Congre. ssional R 1, ' w11ich nor-
mally runs. Senate proceedings first, they iHouse
second, will alternate the sequence
Where Are They Nowr"
NEW YORK CITY.. "Under ;the vomotand of
General' Eisenhower,. Allied naval forces, sup-
ported by strong air forces, began landing Allied
armies this morning on the ad'tbertt "Mast of
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