WHO IS THE NEW CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN SECRET SERVICE?

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[The "Letters to the Editors" sect on of the East
German foreign affairs monthly, Deutsche ussenpolitik
No 6, June 1965, carried the following question concerning
the DCI, allegedly posed by a resident of Vest Germany,
and the journal's answer to this question.]
CPYRGH 'Ito IS THE NEW CHIEF OF THE AM1dRICAN SECRET SERVICE?
In the Sue - eutsc e Zeitung Munich recently. saw a sma
item which reported that the American President Johnson has suddenly
named W. Raborn as the now director of the CIA., In contrast to
similar personnel changes, one found in this case very little
additional information in our newspapers. Can your editorial board
assist in enlightening me regarding the background of the change in
the CIA directorship?
CPYRGHT
Helmut C., Freiburg i. Br. [West Germany]
B;.sler Landstrasse
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is not only the parent
organization of all American secret service branches and the
largest imperialist secret service apparatus in general, but it
represents at the same time, the coordinating center which is
accepted by all of America's military pact partners, as well as the
directing headquarters for all anti-socialist and neocolonialist
subversive activities. The CIA director -- and, thus, virtually
one of the,most prominent troublemakers in the world -- presides,
in addition, over the Joint Secret Service Committee of the US
(Intelligence Advisory Committee) as part of his function, and has
considerable influence over American policy, as a member of the
American National Security Council. Every CIA director has
functioned to a certain degree as the American President's scandal-
monger who is well-informed from first-hand sources. The -CIA is a
widely-scattered office, whose activity is not completely controlled
even by the government. There is a reason, in this connection, why
people within and outside the United States speak of the "invisible
government." Defeats of this "invisible government," such as
occurred in Playa Giron, in Africa and in Southeast Asia, however,
were always defeats suffered by the American President. When the
moment came for a change in the CIA leadership, one must see in this
basically one of the results of the actual power relationship in the
world which is being determined by the forces of peace and progress.
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As a result, increasingly frequent defeats have inevitably happened
to the CIA, which since its founding in 1947 has been an especially
dangerous instrument of the imperialist foreign and military policy
of the US. Scapegoats are regularly sought for these CIA defeats.
As the former CIA Director Allen Welsh Delles failed in his notorious
Cuban invasion and his peace-endangering U-2 aerial espionage program,
so his successor John Alex McCone must now pay for his bankrupt policy
which is becoming more and more obvious, especially in Southeast Asia,
but also in South America, as well as in Africa. And who is now his
successor?
William Francis Raborn Jr. cones from Texas and is a vigorous
60-year-old man. From 1928 to 1963 he rose from lieutenant to
admiral in the US Navy. After finishing flight training in the Navy
he served on various warships, aircraft carriers, and destroyers up
to 1940. In 1941 he was specifically one of the antiaircraft experts
who failed the US at Pearl Harbor, and up to 1947 he held various
staff Hosts in the American Pacific Fleet. From 1952 to 1954 he was
chief of the office for naval operations as well as for research
and development of the Navy's guided weapons systems. In 1955 he .
acted as deputy staff chief of the US command in the Atlantic fleet,
then he was appointed in 1960 as the first director of the US Navy
program for ballistic rockets and in 1962, the person responsible
for the "Polaris" solid fuel atomic rocket program.
As an admiral retired early, he was vice president, for a short
time, of the California Aerojet General Corporation, to which for
years before. that he had fed "Polaris" contracts worth millions. On
11 April 1965 Raborn was installed as director at the CIA headquarters
along the Potomac River near Washington. His sudden appointment
permits the following conclusions:
1. In the constant rivalry between the civilian and
military sectors for the top posts in the CIA, the military has
again taken over for the first time in 12 years. This will lead
to an even more thorough and active militarization of the CIA
apparatus and, thus, to an increased military influence upon the
American "National Security Council" and upon the US President.
2. In the party political power struggle President Johnson,
with this new appointment, has succeeded in a move which John. F.
Kennedy was prevented from making; namely, the president nominated
by the Democratic Party of the US has succeeded after 12 years in
taking from the Republican Party, the CIA directorship, which.the
Republicans during this period, had held without interruption.
3. In the constant rivalry between the four American
branches of the armed forces (Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines)
for the top CIA post, the Navy with its clear interests outside
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America, has once again after a long time emerged the victor. (The
succession of CIA directors is as follows: Admiral Sidney W.
Souers, Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Admiral Roscoe H.
Ilillenkoetter, Army Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Allen Welsh Dulles,
John McCone, retired Admiral William F. Raborn)
4. In the rivalry between the monopolistic groups on the
East and West Coasts of the US for the top CIA post, the West Coast
monopolies (as in the case of McCono) which are particularly
oriented toward armaments (concentrated aircraft, rocket, and war-
ship construction industries) have now taken over with Raborn who
was recently managing director of a California air armament concern.
This branch of the monopolies has been one of the ultra groups
most greedy for profits from the armament industry.and has been
stimulated for years by the intrigues of the CIA. (The Lockheed
aircraft armament concern supplied the U-2 espionage plane!)
5. It is not by accident that Johnson now seizes upon
Raborn as a Far East military specialist of the US. The US is
? stopping up just at this time its military operations (particularly
the ,Navy's!), provocations, and plans for aggression in the Southeast
'Asian area, is systematically expanding the Pacific war area, and is
trying to corrupt the new national states of Asia, if need be, even
with a billion dollars worth of so-called development aid.
6. As representative of the atomic rocket "push-button"
war, Raborn in his new espionage function, will make every effort
to accelerate and especially to improve nuclear weapons planning,
since he-knows best the technical inadequacies of his "Polaris"
rockets which have been praised as "miracle weapons."
7. Finally, his appointment will arouse counter-reactions
among the American Catholics, since the Jesuits with McCone, were
successful for the first time in placing a fanatical Catholic in the
post of CIA director. Raborn, on the other hand, is not only a
Free Mason, but also a member of the Baptist sect.
In our opinion, the imperialistic policy of the US forced upon
it primarily through the CIA, is extraordinarily dangerous,
regardless of the particular director of the CIA, but one must
consider, nevertheless, the role played by this person. We know
what warlike provocations the CIA with its three-billion-dollar
annual budget and its 100,000-man army of agents operating in 36
countries from 1,400 American military bases, has already started..
But the new CIA Director Raborn will also fail through the vigilance
of the people. lie can already calculate his chances: Allen W.
Dulles survived a full nine years as CIA director, McCone loft
his post for shameful reasons after just three and one half.years,
and Raborn now stands at the pillory of history.
(Berlin, Deutsche Aussenpolitik, June 1965, pp 724-725.)
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