NO. 2 CIA POST MAY BE UP FOR GRABS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201480002-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 26, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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IpTIrLE APPEARED HUMAN EVENTS
STAT
ON PAgL 3
26 January 1985
STAT
Be Up for Grabs
No. 2 CIA Post May
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improvements . in our
.. ' intelligence capabiiifies
There are increasing reports that - John Mc
Mahon, deputy director of the Central Intelligence-
Agency, will be leaving for a job in the private sec
tor, with fundamental.. k:
..-.policy aide and was alavorite of then DCI Stans;~
field Turner.- Gates was -a strong supporter OIL`.'
SALT'II and-has generally. taken a soft-line.iew
of Soviet- aggressions''around the world. .Many.
believe that Gates cetannis close ties to the"left=lib. 1
eral Democrats and is, in fact, a potential DCl is a', . .
strong opposition to. Olmer. Gates, .who, is pres=r
ently. in charge of:estimates at CIA, 'is a-former
close associate of David.Aaron, foreign policy ad
viler to former ice President Walter Mondale.--.t"'
Gates served in the Carter White House as a key-
Gates. HumAN EvENrshas previously reported one
Lionel Olmer and Robert CASEY -
Mahon's replacement:..
erect by CIA-: Director
- William Casey as..Mc--
still to be realized. Ob-
servers are disheartened
however, by-two names
apparently being consid-
he was national ' security adviser. DeGraffenreid
has established a reputation as a knowledgeable,
discreet, hard-working professional with unques-
tioned loyalty to the Reagan agenda.
future Democratic administration.,-Conservative=
..observers on Capitol HM and elsewhere believe his
1appomtment as deputy director"wouid?be-harmftilY
fq $~?8 !?ldmt ation po. cie: -~ .
Conservatives tiyish that :Casey ? would take
closer,.look at seasoned Gen, Paul. Goratan,?.soon-
to leave as commander of the U.S. Southern Conn-. .
mand .m 'the Panama Canal, who has done .a
superb job in the critical Central American region He has seen firsthand'the need for a strong Amer
ican intelligence capability, and his no-nonsense -
approach to bench-warmers, and handwringers
could be a breath of fresh air at the-bureaucrati-
cally hidebound CIA.,
Another name being mentioned is Kenneth De-
Graffenreid, the intelligence director on the MSC
staff who was brought in by Richard Allen when
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