INSIDE REPORT: MORE CIA TROUBLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100330003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 9, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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INSIDE REPORT: More. Cld Trouble.
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the first U-2 Pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba to-Bundy
at the White House in October, 1962. Bundy ran them up--
Certain to impair declining morale in the Central SOFT ON LB.T
Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the unannounced, unprece-
dented decision 'of a top-flight professional intelligence Preliminary drafts for the Republican "State of the
n to resign as deputy director for intelligence for a Union" speech to be delivered Jan. 19 by House leader
Gerald Ford and Senate leader Everett Dirksen have
esser job. been discarded as being too critical of President Johnson.
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Cline has privately informed CIA chief William
(Red) Raborn that he wants to relinquish the agency's e gists. won't risk the label of "war party" belittling peace-
eision highest comes as post and Rabo rn take is a under increasing field bcreasing ng internal nHisoverures. Consequently, Republican members of. Con
cisioe softer on Mr. Johnson.
Although Cline disclaims criticism for letting CIA morale slip. gress will be Furthermore, Rep. Melvin Laird : of Wisconsin, .. a
unusual departure, reof colleagues think k leading Republican spokesman on military affairs, is cau,
s a factor
the rwisc. More in his s important, , the the departure chinrack tioning Republican Congressmen not to criticize the Presi-
of the c ,
ntelligence professional will leave a gaping hole in the dents bombing pause as an aid to Communist military op.
gency at the very time that internal dissatisfaction with erations. Though a hard-liner himself, Laird would leave
aborn is highest. war hawk talk to Right wing Democrats..like;.Mendel
The question asked in Washington is this: if Raborn Rivers of South Carolina.
justly famed as the father of the Polaris- missile) can't.
revent the flight of a crack professional like Cline, how
an he restore his agency to the high morale it, enjoyed
nder former directors Allen Dulles and John McCone ?
Another factor lies behind Cline's decision; his in-
imate ties to McGeorge Bundy, who is quitting as Presi-
ent Johnson's top national security aid effective Feb. 2$.
With Bundy as the chief White House link to CIA,
e and Cline were in the thick of.super-secret operations
uring the Cuban missile crisis. It was Cline who rushed
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molinsky any job requiring Senate confirmation.
Although friends urged Yarmolinsky to quit with a
blast at the White House, he declined-telling them he.
needed to rehabilitate his unjustly shattet'ed reputation.
Consequently, he wandered inside the Great Society with-
out a permanent job, until named Deputy Assistant Sec-
retary of Defense for International Affairs in October-,
a junior position not requiring Senate confirmation.
A footnote: other New Frontiersmen set to turn up,
at the Kennedy Institute are Daniel P. Moynihan, former'
Assistant Secretary of Labor and author of the famed
report on the Negro family, and Carl Kaysen; former',
White House aid for international affairs.
INTEREST 'FROM SALTY
In one.of his last acts as a politician, Sen. Leverett,
Saltonstall of Massachusetts displayed the thrift and hon-
esty of a New England Yankee.
The Senate Republican, Campaign Committee, had
given Saltonstall $5,000 as a preliminary contribution to '
his 1966 re-election campaign. When Saltonstall an-
nounced his retirement, he promptly returned?the $5,000
--plus another $500.
Why the extra $500? Rather than let the $5,000 lie
idle until campaign time, Saltonstall had put the money
?. to work. The $500 represented the return on his invest-
ment,' and he felt that, too, should be returned''to the
campaign committee. '
Adam Yarmolinsky, an imaginative, dedicated public
,servant immobilized by neo-McCarthyism, has decided to
call it quits in Washington after '16 ' months"in limbo: ,He
intends to join Harvard's new Kennedy' Institute.'
Yarmolinsky's troubles began `early in 1964 when he .
left the Pentagon (where he was Secretary 'of :Defense.
Robert McNamara's top,assistant) to become No.,2. man r~
under Sargent Shriver in the new poverty, program.
To Appease Southern conservatives (who made ab
surd charges of Communist sympathies), Yarmolinsky
was bounced out of the poverty program in August, 1964.
Since, then, President Johnson has declined to give Yar-
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