WHITE HOUSE SHAKES UP VAST INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING NETWORK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300340064-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: November 6, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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'1\'ASTIING'i'ON -- The \\'h (Ci
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House a nnouneed Friday a shakeup
of flee gover'nment's massive Intel-
.
li cnco bureaucracy that could have
major import in enabling the Pies..
ident to assess more accurately any
Societ threat to the United States,
Richard Hellr!s, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
emerges from the iong-pi;_inlaul aver
ganization as an even stronger flg-
ure. with responsibility for coordi-
nating all intelligence activities.
,Some sources said ll.elrns' role could
develop into that, of an intelligence
Czar.
Henry A. Kissinger, President
Nixon's essiatant for rational seci.ri-
tjy.affairs and the National Security
Cou ncil'staff also are given signifi-
cant new powers in the shakeup,
l;ud;et-C1enrin :t'vocedurc
Tlie Penta4;oa's high Defense In-
telligence Agency is downgraded
and }}rill be required, along with otte-
er intelligence arms Oir the uovcny
nhnt, to clear its budget through a
/new Intelligence Resources Advi o?
ry Committee chaired by helms.
J
Informed sources said the shakeup
reflected the Presxlent's unilappi..
77t'SS with iI?.', Claahiy Of information
supplied hint on occasion and his be-
lief that the splintcrr'd intelligence
activities can be coordinated better.
The P.rrsidenI also is convinced, it
was said, that the government's In.
t.elligcnce bill --? reliably estimated
at about $5 bill on.a year now--.is
11:1ncecs ?S11y High. Administration
(sfilC'?8I5 1?r'1)e to aCn16'de a saving of
at leat several hundred million dol-
Ialo along with greaten efficiency.
For years many in Congress and in
the executiv branch have thought
that, the. rovei'n11ment's intelligence
effoi.'t:, because of grow th Of s:t'lff Ind
frag'vnentetlon :;Biel', v;;.,1, at