PANEL O.K. LIKELY FOR CIA NOMINEE

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LLT 1 r17, :lIN Approved Forapelease 2001/111/083J : CANIAARDP84-004941P00200050008-2 ; Panel K. likely for CIA nominee By CHARLES W. CORDDRY Washington Bureau o/. The Sun Washington?James R. said. When he was asked what Schlesinger, now chairman of would happen if the White the Atomic Energy Commis- House refused to let Mr. sion, apparently will win Sen- Schlesinger testify, Senator -ate Armed Services Committee Stennis said the nominee ob- ? approval as the new director viously could not speak for the of the Central Intelligence White House and "we'll handle Agency after assuring the that when it comes up." panel that he will be willing to Senator Stennis said the testify before it whenever committee had not pet voted on Mr. Schlesinger's appoint- The Senate Democratic: eau- Anent but there has been "no ?cus, annoyed about the'refusal opposition" in or Out of Con- of some officials -&testify be- gross. fore Senate committees, .Would succeed Helms threatened in ..a.:,re.solution adopted Thursday to hold up Mr. Schlesinger would sue- endorsement of presidential ceed Richard Helms at the nominees unless, ? they make Central. Intelligence Agency. firm commitments : to appear Mr. Helms has been nominated when called. to be ambassador to Iran.. Senator Stennis sLid Mr. To come whenever called Schlesinger assured the coin- . Senator John Stennis mittee "very firmly" in the IcIis$..), chairman of-the Armed ,hearing, Which was'closed to the Serviccs-COmmittee, said after public, that his agency would Mr. Schlesinger's confirmation be strictly independent in its hearing yesterday that the appraisals. of foreign intelli- nominee said he is "willing to gence information, without come before the committee yeilding to White House, con- whenever he is called." gressional , or any other pres- ? "I don't think there is any sures. This is "vitally impor- problem there," Mr. Stennis tant,.". Mr. Stennis said. Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 THE HOUSTON POST Approved For4lease 2001/11/08k3eakepp831-0049914000200050008-2 HS/HC- tigs6033 Nominee for CIA post I delights Senate leader ?- WASHINGTON Cf1 ? James R. Schlesinger passed Friday what the chairman of the /Senate Armed Services Com- mittee called a "full exam- ination" on his nomination to be director of the Central In- telligence Agency. ? Chairman John C. Stennis, TI-Miss., said he was im- pressed with the nominee's ? "firm answers" to the com- mittee in recognition of an obligation to ?n^l7eh own ut- timate conclusions from in- telligence data independent of ? anyone in or out of govern-- ment. Stennis s a id Schlesinger, now chairman of the Atomic E ne r g y Commission, ex- AlIES SCHLESINGER pressed unequivoc!al willing- ness to respond when called upon by the appropriate com- mittees of Congress. His response at. a closed- door hearing to requests to keep tight rein on operating funds and intelligence com- munity manpower needs were "entirely satisfactory," Stennis said. Schlesinger, former profes- sor at the University of Vir- ginia and former assistant di- rector of the federal Budget Bureau for two years, was named to succeed Richard Helms as CIA director. Helms is being named ambassador to Iran. Stennis said the committee will vote at its earliest oppor- tunity, possibly next week on the nominations of Schlesin- ger, Elliot L. Richardson to be secretary of defense and William P. Clements Jr. to be deputy secretary of defense. Stennis said he is satisfied with arrangements proposed by Clements for handling his financial affairs while in -of- fice. The senator said the .ar- rangement would not be made public, but filed for fu- ture reference "should any- thing happen." Clements is founder and board chairman of Sedco, Inc., a Dallas oil drilling firm. oved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 IIS/HC- v c NBI Approved For Ratease 2oow ifpg :19133-Rop84-oo499rxwoo200050008-2 CIA: Neuer Direktor dirigiert Bornbenterror James Rodney Schlesinger: Er 1c7ste CIA-Chef Helms ab. Fotos:NI31-Auslandsdienst s geschah am Ende der zweiten Dezember- dekade im WeiBen Haus: Prasident Nixon be- rief einen neuen Direktor fiir die Daalorganisation des USA-Geheimdienstes CIA ? den 44jahrigen Dr. phil. James Rodney Schlesinger. Am glei- chen Tage befahl der Prasi- dent, den Bombenterror gegen clichtbesiedelte Gebiete der DRV zu verstArken. Beides stcht in unmittelbarem Zusam- rnenhang. Mit Schlesinger iibernahrri erstrnals in der 26jahrigen Ge- schichte der CIA cin profi- Herter ?Druckknopfkrieger" dcren Lcitung. Von 1963 bis 1969 hatte dieser Mann im kalifornischen Santa Monica in der sogenannten Rand Cor- poration, der ?Denkfabrik" des Gehcimdienstzweiges der U.S. Air Force, gearbeitet. In dieser Corporation, die sich mit Kriegsforscliung und -ent7 wicklung befafk, wurden bei- spielsweise Einsatz und Wir- kung der in den vcrgangenen sechs Jahren iiber Indochina abgeworfenen 7 Millioncn Tonnen verschiedenster Bom- bentypen analysicrt. linter Schlesingers Leitung cr war dort sogar drei Jahre lang Direktor f?r strategische Stu- dien ? entstanden u. a. die Leitfilden iiber ?Effektivitats- steigerung bei Flachenbombar- dements" und saber ?Eska- lationsstufen vor Kcrnwaffen- einsatzen". 1969, sofort nach seinem Amtsantritt, lief Prasident Nixon Schlesinger ? Cr ist wie Nixon Mitglied der Republi- kanischen Partei ? als einen seiner engsten Berater nach Washington kommen, zuvor hatte Schlesinger zwei Jahre Lang im Budgetbiiro, dem Finanzzentrum der USA, den Ton angegeben. Zu dieser Zeit arbeitete er fiir den Prasi- denten personlich einen Re- organisationsplan far die zivi- len und militarischen Geheim- dienstzweige aus. 1971 chob Nixon den Mann seines Ver- trauens auf den Prasidenten- posten der Atomenergie-Kom- mission der USA. Jetzt fiber- trug cc Schlesinger die Fiih- rung der CIA, um u. a. auch ?mit alien Mitteln" die USA- Positionen in Indochina zu sichern. Bei scinem Mehl, Hanoi und Haiphong born- bardicren zu lasscn, stiitzte sich Nixon wesentlich auf eine Konzeption Schlesingers. Gleichzeitig- will er nun die- sen Schlesinger ? er ist iibri- gens der jiingste Chef in der CIA-Geschithte ? in den kommenden Jahren im. Rah- men der Salt-Gesprache zwi- schen den USA und der UdSSR wirken lassen.?, Dr. Julius Mader Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499RQQA200050008-2 MIDDLETOWN, CONN. PRESS DEG 2 E 19,771 ? AN ew 0 The retirement of Richard Helms from the Central intelligence Agency at 60 years of age represents an end to the era of pro- fessionalism in the CIA. Ms successor James R. Schlesinger is a capable economist and student of strategic studies, but he is , not an up through the ranks director of es- pionage. Helms dates back to the long regime of Allen Dulles, who himself came out uf the 'fabled Office of Strategic Services of World War II. Thus a long chain is being broken, . and we would be hopeful that it does not ?represent the politicization of the CIA. gr. tt" 4.S.,/ Ilehns retirement appears to be just that be- cause he has often urged that members of. the agency retire at 60 and he is doing the same thing. The new director is considered to be a systems manager which is quite a different thing from one who has a flair for the pecu- liar business of intelligence, or an individ- ual who by long experience knows when to play a hunch. It will therefore be a dif- ferent CIA; if it can be as effective under the new director as the old, the nation will be well served. proved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Washington Whispers? * * * James R. Schlesinger, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who is to succeed Richard Helms as Direc- tor of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been told by President Nixon to concentrate on intelligence gathering and evaluation rather than on opera- tions. As a White House insider puts it: "There is to be more cloak and less dagger in the CIA." Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved FeaReleaseli20611NOitig :tiKlikE6P841iMQR000200050008-2 1 5 JAN 1973 ITS/HC- Approved FAroRelease 2001111/94.i; icyk-Rfl!84-00414R000200050008-2 Llewellyn King From AEC to CIA: 'Intellectual Man of Action' IN HIS 16 months as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, James R. Schlesinger Jr., whom Mr. Nixon has nominated to head the CIA, achieved what has seemed to be a minor mira- cle: ITe has taken an ailing depart- ment overwhelmed by demands and given it a new sense of purpose and vigor. His record should be of some Interest to those who are wondering how he will conduct the affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency. When Schlesinger took over in Aug- ust 1971, the AEC was gun-shy and exhausted, and the reorganization plan that would have parcelled off some of its functions to the proposed Department of Natural Resources then being considered by the Congress seemed like the only kindly way out. These were some of the woes then facing the AEC: ? The AEC's licensing procedures for nuclear power plants, based on extent The writer is Washington editor of Nucleonics Week. sive public hearings and designed to Inform the public what it meant to have such a plant in their community, had become a battleground between environmental groups and electric utilities. Utilities themselves were caught between projections of a doubling of electricity demand every 10 years until the end of the cen- tury and rising costs of fossil fuels, plus stiffer air quality standards. En- vironmentalists were reflecting gen- erally a disillusion with technology similar to that which ended the SST project. A large body of opinion among AEC's critics, as well as some in indus- try, was saying that the AEC was in conflict of interest by being both a regulatory and promotional agency. Then, shortly before Schlesinger's ar- rival, the Court of Appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia ruled that the AEC had been ignoring the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act in not considering environmental mat- ters in its hearings, and in one stroke the AEC's regulatory workload was doubled. THERE WERE other problems, too. The AEC was under fire for then-cur- rent standards of radioactive effluent releases from power plants. The liquid metal fast breeder demonstration re- actor program, on which the govern- ment hinges its hopes for meeting the country's mid-term electrical needs, was dragging along in a series of inef- fective discussions. The Joint Commit- tee on Atomic Energy was practically at war with the administration over industry and a large part of the free world's nuclear generating capacity. Congress had authorized and appro- priated funds for increasing the ca- pacity of the AEC's three existing uranium enrichment plants, but the Office of Management and Budget had steadfastly refused to spend the money. And behind these day-to-day prob- lems of atomic energy were the na- tional security issues of the SALT talks and the planned detonation of a nuclear warhead at Amchitka Island. Presiding over the AEC was Glenn Seaborg, a respected scientist and in- ternationalist who was a lot happier discussing the long-term benefits to mankind world-wide than he was with the daily hassle of running the AEC, a problem that he appeared to have solved by leaving the daily troubles to his division heads while contemplating the big picture himself. His attitude to the public was patronizing .and is summed up by what the allies of the AEC call "papa-knows-best." Some evi- dence of this is provided by his rele- gation of a minor role to the AEC public information function. THEN CAME Schlesinger, a tall, boyish 43-year-old with an omni- present pipe in his mouth and a twin- kle in his eye. A man who put in 16- hour days, Schlesinger found time to introduce some hunianizing innova- tions, as well as to restructure the AEC. Wine appeared in the executive dining room, and alcohol was served for the first time ever at AEC recep- tions. Substantive innovations occurred. The two aspects of the AEC, the regu- latory and promotional branches of the agency, were overhauled. Teams of consultants were set up for major reorganization of the agency. New de- partments and new department heads were introduced. A new policy of run- ning an "open" agency was introduced. In a major speech six weeks after taking office, Schlesinger said that the cozy, incestuous relationship between the industry and the AEC was over. He called environmental critics of the AEC into meetings and "jawboned" with them. One of his division chiefs said, "He seems to be that amazing combination, an intellectual man of action." There is evidence that it was a good analysis of the man. He was a defense analyst for the Hand Corp. and was for a little over a year an assistant director ef the Office of Management and Budget, where he prepared a study for Prezi- dent Nixon on overhauling the intents gence establishment that he is now to head. He had no administrative baolo ground, but seems to have tapped a Department's "critical path analysie computer profiling system for ABO licensing. The system allows the entire state of the licensing program to be seen at a glance on a computer readout. He is a voracious reader of English history and is fond of quoting Burke and Haslitt. On paper Schlesinger reads like a second Robert McNamara. He has a facility to grasp a complicated prob- lem at a glance, and his computer-like qualities are modified by unexpected personal charm and a very human warmth. ONE OF THE MOST encouraging things that Schlesinger has done is to reduce some of the more sinister as. pects of the AEC that resulted from its weapons producing role. When a reporter told Schlesinger that the agency's civilian regulatory building in Bethesda, Md., was still subject to Pentagon-type security, he said: "Christ, is that still going on?" and turning to an aide, he added: "That is going to stop now." It did. - When Nucleonics Week, the trade publication for the atomic energy in- dustry, published an article about AEC scientists who feared they would be the victims of reprisals for their views on the controversial subject Of nuclear safety, he was incensed. Schlesinger berated the reporter who wrote the report. But when the re- porter insisted on the veracity of the story, Schlesinger demanded more facts. Then he said: "I know who it is (naming the head of one of the AEC's divisions). It is not going to happen any more." And to all appearances it hasn't. The agency now has a small band of in. house critics who speak out against what it is doing. Although often doing this off the record, they are well known inside the agency, but they do not appear to have been silenced in any way. At the time of the incident, Schlesinger said, with considerable emotion: "While I am chairman here there are not going to be any reprisal*, We are not going to have that kind of here." He is no stranger to per- tinent epithets. On several subsequent occasions he has inquired whether there has been any new word of reprisals. In the personnel area, he encouraged many old AEC hands to seek early retirements and brought in higtly qualified new individuals, including a new director of licensing. When he took the AEC job, Schlesinger was as alien to publicity as he was to administration, but he showed the same quick taste for both. He appeared to like the company of the nation's fu tire en met to irich _great latent talent for administration. uranium, the , 1.41FP-111 eprAileiggse 2001111/13RvoiedAREP13345-0G4919R900200050008-2 committed to supply for the domestic ning and has borrowed the Defense Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 .Available Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved For ligjease 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499F41100200050008-2 newsmen and would gravitate to theit: at receptions and on public occasions, although his treatment of them was often avuncular. He never appeared in his AEC job to be enjoying himself as much as when he was debating with one or more members of the press, and he seems to have as much a thste for a. party as he does for computers, facts and statistics, He has a hunger for facts and figures that he spews out in the course of his conversation as naturally as breathing. At an AEC reception recently, as several stragglers approa4ed the bar for another round, the bartender re- plied politely that the party was over. "Tile hell it is," said the ehairmalt of the AEC, extending his glass for a re- fill. Those who know him believe that the CIA is in for a shot of change, and they feel pretty good about it. James It Schlesinger Jr. at Amchitka "The agency now has a small band of in-house critics who speak out against what it is doing. . . 'While I am chair- man here,' Schlesinger said, 'there are not going to be any reprisals. We are not going to have that kind of ? here,' " , Approved For Release 2001/11Y08 :''CIA4RE6P84-00494A000 050008-2 Approved Forel 'Release mitom?N cAkFDP84-00499$000200050008-2 1 DEC 1972 AEC's Chief Denies Offer Oi CIA Post Atomic Energy Commission Chairman James R. Schle- singer said yesterday he has not been offered the position of director of the Central In- telligence Agency by Presi- dent Nixon. Schlesinger was mentioned as a possible successor to Di? rector Richard Helms when it was disclosed Dec. 2 that Helms would resign to take a new job in Mr. Nixon's second admini strati on. Helms has headed the CIA since 1966 when he was pro- moted by President Johnson. In an interview yesterday on "Meet the Press" (NBC, WRC), .Schlesinger was asked if he had been offered the CIA job. "No," he replied. He also said that there is no White House decision to trans- fer AEC authority -over civil- ian development of atomic power to the Interior Depart-, ment. , Asked if there are effective safeguards to keep atomic ma7 terial safe from hijackers and terrorists, Schlesinger said that current nuclear plants can withstand the impact of a 200,000--pound plane flying at 150 miles an hour. But he said "they may not be adequate for a larger aircraft." Three hijackers who com- mandeered a Southern Air- ways jet on Nov. 11 threatened to crash into the AEC facility at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved Fo?lidelease 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-0049a.R000200050008-2 ? SEATTLE, WASH. DEC 221870 E - 244,776 S - 310,357 Spy shake-up due THE man named by President Nixon yesterday to head the Central Intelligence Agency was directly responsi- ble last year for the largest and most controversial earth tremor ever produced by man. In his capacity as chairman of the Atomic Energy Com- mission, Dr. James R. Schlesinger waved aside the dire warnings and fierce objections of environmentalist groups here and abroad, and gave the go-ahead for the underground explosion ot a five-megaton nuclear device on Alaska's . Amchitka Island. Schlesinger, his wife and two of his chil- dren. were on the island during the test. The Aleutian Islands are not the only place where Schlesinger has produced shock waves during his 16 months as A. E. C. chief. He has thoroughly shaken up both the military and non- military sides of the A. E. C., with his principal target being, as he put it, "the development of technology purely for the sake of technology or the technologists." Schlesinger is certain to take the same approach to his new job at the intelligence agency. The handwriting is on the wall for the game-playing, paper-shuffling end of the spook business. The C. I. A. will become more result-oriented. And there will be less spying for the sake of spying or the spies. ?Dwight Schear Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 sT ET A R Y 8, 3fitypeoved Fox -agleam) ge14114,,,,earn41091199R000200050008-2 r-494 Llewellyn King From AEC to CIA: 'Intellectual Man of Action' TN HIS 16 months as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, James R. Schlesinger Jr., whom Mr. Nixon has eominated to head the CIA, achieved what has seemed to be a minor mire- ele: He has taken an ailing depart- ment overwhelmed by demands and given it a new sense of purpose and vigor. His record should be of some Interest to those who are wondering how he will conduct the affairs of the ( entral Intelligence Agency. When Schlesinger took over in Aug- ust 1971, the AEC was gun-shy and exhausted, and the reorganization plan that would have parcelled off some of its functions to the proposed Department of Natural Resources then being considered by the Congress seemed like the only kindly way out. These were some of the woes then facing the AEC: The AEC's licensing procedures for nuclear power plants, based an exten- . The writer is Washington editor of Nucleonics Week. sive public hearings and designed to Inform the public what it meant to have such a plant in their community, had become a battleground between environmental groups and electric tit Utilities themselves were caught between projections of a doubling of electricity demand every 10 years until the end of the cen- tury and rising costs of fossil fuels, plus stiffer air quality standards. En- vironmentalists were reflecting gen- erally a disillusion with technology similar to that which ended the SST project. A large body of opinion among AFC's critics, as well as some in indus- try, was saying that the AEC was in conflict of interest by being both a regulatory and promotional agency. Then, Shortly before Schlesinger's ar- rival, the Court of Appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia ruled that the AEC had been ignoring the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act In not considering environmental mat- tern in its hearings, and in one stroke the AEC's regulatory workload was doubled. THERE WERE other problems, too. The AEC was under fire for then-cur- rent standards of radioactive effluent releases from power plants. The liquid metal fast breeder demonstration re- actor program, on which the govern. meritbinges its hopes for meeting the country's mid-term electrical needs, was dragging along in a series of inef- fective discussions. The Joint Commit- tee on Atomic Energy was practically at war with the administration over the nation's future capacity to enrich uranium, the processed fuel AEC is committed to supply for the domestic industry and a large part of the free world's nuclear generating capacity. Congress had authorized and appro- priated funds for increasing the ca- pacity of the AEC's three existing uranium enrichment plants, but the Office of Management and Budget had steadfastly refused to spend the money. And behind these day-to-day prob- lems of atomic energy were the na- tional security issues of the SALT talks and the planned detonation of a nuclear warhead at Amchitka Island. Presiding over the AEC was Glenn Seaborg, a respected scientist and in- ternationalist who was a lot happier discussing the long-term benefits to mankind world-wide than he was with the daily hassle of running the AEC, a problem that he appeared to have aolved by leaving the daily troubles to his division heads while contemplating the big picture himself. His attitude to the public was patronizing and is summed up by what the critics of the AEC call "papa-knows-best." Some evi- dence of this is provided by his rele- gation of a minor role to the AEC public information function. THEN CAME Schlesinger, a tall, boyish 43-year-old \s$prje1Fibr present pipe in his mou .h and a twin- seems to be that amazing combination, the CIA is in for a shot of change, and Ide in his eye. A man who put in 16- an intellectual man of action." There they feel pretty good about it. James R. Schlesinger Jr. at Amchitka "The agency now has a small band of in-house critics who speak out against what it is doing. . . 'While I am chair- man here,' Schlesinger said, 'there are not going to be any reprisals. We are not going to have that kind of ? here.' " hour days, Schlesinger found time to introduce some humanizing innova- tions, as well as to restructure the AEC. Wine appeared in the executive dining room, and alcohol was served for the first time ever at AEC recep- tions. Substantive innovations occurred. The two aspects of the AEC, the regu- latory and promotional branches of the agency, were overhauled. Teams of consultants were set up for major reorganization of the agency. New de- partments and new department heads were introduced. A new policy of run- ning an "open" agency was introduced. In a major speech six weeks after taking office, Schlesinger said that the COZY, incestuous relationship between the industry and the AEC was over. He called environmental critics of the AEC into meetings and "jawboned" with them. the ivkigiumaionlass for a re- is evidence that it was a good analysis of he man. He was a defense analyst for the Rand Corp. and was for a little over a year an assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget, where he prepared a study for Presis dent Nixon on overhauling the intellis gence establishment that he is now to head. He had no administrative back. ground, but seems to have tapped a great latent talent for administration. He is a devotee of analysis and plan- ning and has borrowed the Defense Department's "critical path analysis" computer profiling system for AEC licensing. The system allows the entire state of the licensing program to be seen at a glance on a computer readout. He is a voracious reader of English history and is fond of quoting Burke and Haslitt. On paper Schlesinger reads like Ali second Robert McNamara. Re has a facility to grasp a complicated prob- lem at a glance, and his computer-like qualities are modified by unexpected personal charm and a very human warmth. ONE OE THE MOST encouraging things that Schlesinger has done is to reduce some of the more sinister ere pect; of the AEC that resulted from its weapons producing role. When a reporter told Schlesinger that the agency's civilian regulatory building in Bethesda, Md., was still subject to Pentagon-type security, he said: "Christ, is that still going on?" and turreng to an aide, he added; "That is going to slop now." It did, When Nucleonics Week, the trade publication for the atomic energy in- dustry, published an article about AEC scientists who feared they would be the vietims of reprisals for their views on the controversial sublect of nuclear safety, he was incensed. Schlesinger berated the reporter who wrote the report. But when the re- porter insisted on the veracity of the story, Schlesinger demanded more facts. Then he said: "I know who it is (naming the head of one of the AEC's divisions). it is not going to happen any more." And to all appearances it hasn't. The agency now has a small band of in- house critics who speak out against what it is doing. Although- often doing this off I he record, they are well known insuie the agency, hut they do not appear to have been silenced in any way. At the time of the incident, Schlesinger said, with considerable emotion: "While I am chairman here there are not going to be any reprisals. We are not going to have that kind of here." rie is no stranger to per. tinent epithets. On several subsequent *melons be has inquired whether there has been any new word of reprisals. In the personnel area, he encouraged many old AEC hands to seek early retirements and brought in highly qualified new individuals, including a new director of licensing. When he took the AEC jab Schlesinger was as alien to publicity as he was to administration, but he showed the same quick taste for both. He appeared to like the company of newsmen and would gravitate to them at receptions and on public occasions, although his treatment of them was often avuncular. He never appeared in his AEC job to be enjoying himself as much as when he was debating with one or more members of the press, and he seems to have as much a taste for a party as he does for computers, facts arid statistics. He has a hunger for facts and figures that he spews out in the course of his conversation an naturaLar as breathing. At an AEC reception recently, ea several stragglers approacked the bar for another round, the bartender re- plied politely that the party was over. "The hell it is," said the chairman 'Of Rel@asef21001114/0/8 chGrAalr 64-00499 - believe that Approved For lease 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-0049914100200050008-2 U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 15, 1973 * * * James R. Schlesinger, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who is to succeed Richard Helms as Direc- tor of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been told by President Nixon to concentrate on intelligence gathering and evaluation rather than on opera- tions As a White House insider puts it: "There is to be more cloak and less dagger in the CIA." Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Toni Braden Tht;- tAbst)4,#NeroA4 post ?c43, , 141 CIA Housecleaning: The Cold War Is Over HISTORY has a way of punctuating Itself without benefit of manifesto. Neither White House nor Kremlin has proclaimed that the cold war is over. Yet the departure of Richard Helms as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the appointment of James R. Schlesinger to succeed him is a kind of period, ending an era as clearly as though Winston Churchill had come back to Fulton to revise his farrieus speech about the Iron Curtain. Helms is the last of the bright young men whom Allen Dulles assembled from wartime OSS and from Wall Street law offices to help him turn the CIA into the citadel of the cold war. Dulles is dead. So is Frank Wisner, his hard-driving and inventive assist- ant. So is the one-time number-three man, Tracy Barnes, tall, blond, hand- some and having about him the aura of mystique as the man whom Dulles had personally ehosen to parachute Into Italy with surrender terms for Xesselring. So is that charming young man of feline intelligence, Desmond Fitrgerald, who once had the courage and foresight to tell Robert McNamara that the army would fail in Vietnam. SO THE BRILLIANT and the best Are gone. It is said that now the Presi- dent. 'wants someone to clean house .iver at "the firm," as the cold warriors from Wall St. once referred to their place of business. It is a worthwhile erojeet. Like all bureaucracies, the 'fne that Dulles built tended to go on i,oing whatever he had given it permis- sion to do long after the need was a memory. The 1966 "scandal" about CIA's Infil- tration of student and cultural groups and its use of labor unions, for exam- ple, was only a "scandal" because the activities then being conducted seemed so out of date. it was a though Americans had awakened in 1955 to the startling news that some World War 11 division left on say the Moselle River In Inexplicable ignorance of time suddenly attacked eastward. There were so many CIA projects at the height of the cold war that it was 411nost impossible for a man to keep them in balance, The dollars were nu- merous, too, and so were the people who could be hired. People in government tend to stay on, and CIA had its fair share of stay- ers left over from some forgotten proj- ect or deserted by a bureau chief who didn't get what he wanted and left his recruits to founder for other desks. There were all those college boys whom the agency hired during Korea, trained as paratroops and guerrillas and then shoved into tents because Gen. MacArthur wouldn't let them into his theater. The same morale problem existed for them as did later for the Cuban exiles awaiting the Bay of Pigs. Some of them departed in peace, but some are still around, like the Bay of Pigs men who so embar- rassed Richard Nixon during the last campaign. So I am not against a housecleaning. The times have changed, and in some ways they now more nearly approxi- mate the time when CIA was born. The need then was for intelligence only. Josef Stalin's decision to attempt conquest of Western Europe by manip- ulation, the use of fronts and the pur- chasing of loyalty turned the agency into a house of dirty tricks. It was nec- essary. Absolutely necessary, in my view, But it lasted long after the neces- sity'was gone. 0 1973, Les Angeles Times Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approved For %lea:a 201i6OraektRailiairRa200050008-2 James Rodney Schlesinger By LINDA CHARLTON Special to The 11(le York Times WASHINGTON, Dec. 21? James Rodney Schlesinger, whose expected nomination as the new head of the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency was announced by the White House today, received consid- erable public attention as the Atomic Energy Commission chairman who took his wife and two of his children along to witness the con- troversial detona- tion of a hydrogen bomb in the Aleu- tion Islands. But that incident, in No- /ember, 1971, about four --months after he became chair- iman of the commission, was one of the less startling ac- tions of his tenure. . ? Faced with trying to recon- cile the opposing interests of J conservationists and advo- cates of nuclear energy, Mr. Schlesinger began by indicat- ing that he was no longer go- ing to take the traditional ULM; A.E.C. position of champion- ing the rights of nuclear energy above all others, in- , eluding those of citizens. jl This he did by deciding, on taking office, not to ap- Illtel. peal a Federal court decision ' ? '" requiring the commission to nun be responsive to questions on the location of nuclear power S30 plants and their effects on the environment. 01 Public Interest Stressed Man in the News to broaden its concern to take in the entire energy area. Before heading the commis- sion, Mr. Schlesinger was as- sistant director of the Office of Management and Budget. He joined the Nixon Adminis- tration in 1969 after working for the Rand Corporation as director of strategic studies. During his years at Rand, he was a consultant on atomic energy to the Budget Bureau and directed a nuclear-prolif- eration study commissioned by the Federal Government. Born in New York Mr. Schlesinger was born in New York on Feb. 15, 1929- He .graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also won a prize of $2,400 that underwrote a year's travel in western Eu- rope and parts of Africa and Asia. "I. learned that the world was a very complicated place," he said, "and that the narrow discipline of econom- ics gave a narrow insight into the social life of man." He returned to Harvard for his master's and doctorate degrees and in 1951,married Rachel Mellinger, who was then at Radcliffe. They have four sons and four daughters and live in Alexandria, Va. They moved on to the Uni- versity of Virginia, where Mr. Schlesinger taught economics wry Not long after this, he told for six years except for a 4- representatives of the nuclear six-month leave of absence r, industry that the commission to teach at the Naval War "exists to serve the public in- College in Newport, R. I. He terest," not that of the in- wrote a book, "The Political dustry. Economy of National S-ecur- During his 17 months as ity" and it was this that at- _ chairman of the commission, tracted the attention of, and LI,4 he has also undertaken a a job offer from the Rand drastic reorganization of its Corporation. structure? cutting back on Mr. Schlesinger is de- high-level staff and creating scribed as an unpretentious, VI' a new "assistant general man- plain-living man who wears " ager for environmental and off - the - bargain - rack suits, )1 safety affairs." drives a retirement-age car, ' While the 43-year-old Mr. enjoys bird-watching and Schlesinger has made no so- reading ' Lutheran Theology cret of his advocacy of nu- and writes his own policy , clear energy as a power speeches. source, he says that the skep- For all his articulateness, tics have a right to be heard. the normally frank Mr. In a magazine interview, he Schlesinger has demonstrated urged "getting away from the recently that he can keep attitude, to wit, that atoms his mouth shut. Speculation are beautiful, that he would be named to "Historically, this attitude the intelligence agency has is understandable," he said. been swirling through Wash- "But, in fact, atoms may or ington since the beginning of t may not be useful, depending the month, but he has been on. the circumstances." as discreet as any C.I.A. Approved For. etedasteg001d161iMisZIA-RDR14/40(74NR00020005 008-2 ii/E44) yryfr 7/....A.L. sa. katc, q Approved For lease 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499U00200050008-2 r izeka ?Weat.1 and f( Temp 33-36. A.E.C. Chief to Replace Helms as C.I.A. Director Schlesinger, 43, Chosen ?Intelligence Official to Be Envoy to Iran By JACK ROSENTHAL Special to The Neve York Times KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Dec. 21 ?President Nixon said today that he would nominate James R. Schlesinger, who is chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Director of Central In- telligence. He said also that he would nominate the current director, Richard Helms, to be Ambassa- dor to Iran. Mr. Helms's departure from the C.I.A. was described as a retirement, consistent with his feeling that he, like other C.I.A. officials, should retire at age , 60. He will be 60 in March. There had bben rumors that Mr. Helms was being forced out of his job. The White House took pains 'to affirm the President's appre- ciation for Mr. Helms's 30 years of public service and for the fact that it will continue. At the same time, the departure from the C.I.A. is touched with symbolic overtones. In the opinion of knowledge- able officials; it means the end of an era of professional intel- liger.,:e operatives and the be- gina..tt, of an era or systems The New York Times James R. Schlesinger once interviewed Hitler, as a reporter, epitomizes a genera- tion that developed its exper- tise, during World War II and subsequently helped Lo create the C.I.A. When appointed in June, 1966, he was the first careerist to become D.C.I.?Di- rector of Central Intelligence. Mr. Schlesinger, by contrast, is a 43-year-old economist and political scientist schooled in strategic studies, systems analy- sis, and defense spending. The author of a detailed report on the intelligence community for nlan a, craent. Mr. Helms, who Continued on Page 13, Column; Approved For Release 2001/11/08: CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 g A . E. C. Chairman Will Replace 1"-ielms as Intelligence Director Continued From Col. 1, Page 7 that he would return to Wash- ington and be reassigned to another post. According to a private source, the outgoing Deputy Secretary of State, John N. Ir- win, is Mr. Nixon's choice to become Ambassador to France. The position has been vacant since the departure in early November of Arthur K. Wat- son, who is Mr. Irwin's brother- in-law. In the first news briefing of the President's week-long Christmas trip here, Ronald L. Ziegler, the White House press secretary, also dealt with the following appointments topics: (IMr. Nixon has accepted "with very special regret" the resignation of David M. Ab- shire as Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Rela- tions. Mr. Abshire will become chiarman of the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies on Jan. 9. EISpeculation about the direc- torship of the Federal Bureau of Investigation should be dis- counted for the time being Mr. Ziegler said. One newspaper has reported that Acting Direc- tor L. Patrick Gray will be formally nominated, another has said he would not be, and a third has been in between, Mr. Ziegler said. The fact is, he continued, that no decision has been made. Another vacancy arose in Washington today with the resignation of John P. Olsson after 20 months as deputy un- der secretary of transportation to return to private business. Mr. lielma's new position comes after 30 years in intelli- gence work. After graduation from Williams College, he be- came a United Press corre- spondent in Germany from 1935 to 1937. Until 1942, when he was commissioned as a Navy officer, he was in newspaper advertising. Mr. Nixon last year, he is ex- pected to take over at the C.I.A. as soon as he is confirmed by the Senate. Both the Helms and Settles- nger appointments had been 'orecast. I No successor was named to :he A.E.C. chairmanship, which VIr. Schlesinger has held since 4ugust, 1971. Before that he lad been with the Office of Vlanagement and Budget, con- :entrating on national security and international affairs. Cost Issue Noted That experience, coupled with the Administration's apparent interest in the cost and redun- dancy of intelligence programs, led a close student of C.I.A. to suggest today that what Mr. Nixon now wanted was "more cloak for the buck." - Details about "the agency," as the C.I.A. is known in the Government, are classified. But it is thought to have a budget of more than $750-million a year and more than 10,000 employes. Most are involved in intelligence?technical as- sessment, analysis and esti- mates. A "plans division" conducts clandestine operations, such as the abortive Bay of Pigs in- vasion of Cuba in 1961. Mr. Helms once directed this di- vision, but not at the time of the Cuban invasion. His new assignment is to a country whose leader was strongly assisted, according to wide belief, by a clandestine C.I.A. operation in 1953. The agency was reputed to have had a role in the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh, then premier, permitting the Shah of Iran to reassert his control. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Helms will succeed Joseph S. Farland, who has been Am- bassador to Iran since May. The White House said today 44) ta ;ct : ,of atu qaa eqa ).1o; Old snp MLR U ul ant; Approved Foriagrlease 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499141100200050008-2 The Free Lance-Star; Fredericksburg, Virginia Friday, December 22, 1972 Lewis Gulick CIA fund cuts seen under Schlesin er WASHINGTON (API ? A firm administrative hand and? probable fund-cutting are in store for the big Central In- telligence Agency under its new chief, James R. Schlesinger. This is the opinion of a num- ber of well-placed U.S. officials outside of the CIA. which is sticking to its tradition as the silent service. President Nixon intends to :put Schlesinger, Atomic Energy Commission chairman and for- trier assistant budget director, in the CIA post to replace Rich- ard. M. Helms, the Florida White House announced Thursday. Helms, the career in- telligence officer who has head- ed the espionage agency sinc.e 1966, is to become U.S: am- bassador to Iran. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler relayed Nixon's praise for Helms' ''dedicated service" and denied the intelligence di- rector was being ousted for faulty reporting on foreign de- velopments. Helms . was instrumental in installing a policy of.retirement at age 60 at CIA. aides said. With his own 60th birthday coming in March. Helms is said to have told both the President and colleagues he too should abide by the rule. The choice Teheran post, in 011ie same pay range as the CIA director's $42,5.00 a year, is one of the few ambassadorships Nixon could have secured for Helms because of the CIA's un- welcome image in most coun- tries. CIA is generally credited with helping the 1953 overthrow of Iran's anti-Western premier, Mohammed Mossadegh. which restored the present shah to his throne. Unlike Helms, who rose APptiPied14154e1Rieligtsean01/111/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 t ree decades of duty starting with the U.S. Navy in World War II, Schlesinger. 43, is a former economics professor with no announced experience in cloak-and-dagger operations. At the AEC since August 1971, he has been rated by col- leagues as a strong manager with a firm grip on the budget as well as being well-versed in nuclear affairs. Nixon has Served notice he intends to cut back federal agencies during his second term. Many officials rate the U.S. intelligence community as the ripest for fat-removal in the foreign affairs area. CIA's exact size is secret, but is reported unofficially to be around double the 7,200 employ- es at the AEC. Helms last year was given enlarged duties by Nixon for coordination over the sprawling intelligence establishment, which includes also the Penta- gon's Defense Intelligence Agency and the code-breaking National Security Agency. Some officials suggested that Schlesinger will be able to cut deeper than Helms, who as a careerist would be chopping at longtime fellow, professionals ' and friends. On the other hand, some. voiced wariness lest zeal for tighter management over the intelligen community impair. the floW of differing opinions to the President. I IL!../ PLC . Approved FOi. Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 'mime roorv The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Virginia Friday, December 22, 1972 ION AP wirephoto CIA switch Richard Helms (left) is leaving his post as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and his successor will be James Schleisinger, the White House announced Thursday. It said President Nixon will nominate Helms as ambassador to Iran. Schlesinger has been AEC chairman since August, 1971. Approved For Release 2001/11/08 : CIA-RDP84-00499R000200050008-2 Approvevraeimaqoplimp : R-RP84-0049W00200050008-2 T SITINGTON-TOST , Schlesinger to Get Post at CIA By Carroll Kilpatrick- Washlugton Post Sttf1 Writer KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Dec.I hints, predictions or specula-13 21?President Nixon today tions from White House of Li- confirmed reports that he will cials on what may happen in , nominate James R. -Schled the future. However, Ziegler singer, chairman of the At-has repeated almost daily that omic Energy Commission, to the United States is prepared be the next director of the to resume the talks at any Central Intelligence Agency. ! Richard M. Helms, who has time. The United States be- been director since 1966 and heves a settlement .can be an official of the agency since - reached if Hanoi adopts a con- 1047, will be nominated ambas? str ? sador to Iran. nit ye attitude,. he has said. The President worked at his . The administration is pursu-, residence here today and con- ing "every avenue" to reach? ! leered with aides, including an accord, Ziegler said. national security adviser In , other announcements I Henry A. Kissinger by sec- by tele- phone, White House ,? Ziegler said that the President I rotary Ronald L. Ziegler said. . had accepted the resignation I In Washington, it was of David M. Abshire as assist- learned that Mr. Nixon is ex- ant secretary of state for con- Pected to nominate Under Sec. gressional relations. -He ! re-1 retary Joseph N. It?win, the No. 2 man at the State Depart- signed to return to George-I ment, as ambassador to town University as director of France. its Center for International ( It was understood that nom- Studies, Ziegler said. win will be made this week. , Ziegler said no decision had; illation of the 59-year-old Ir- ? Ile would replace Arthur been made as to whether act- Watson, former IBM executive big FBI Director L. Patrick who has resigned. Gray III would be nominated1 The White house already , to be director. He also said no I .has announced that Irwin? decision had been made on a 1 previously described as slated replacement for Schlesinger! for ''a high-level ambassado_ at the Atomic Energy Commis- ? vial post"?will be succeeded Sion. at State by Kenneth Rush, Ziegler vigorously denied: who now is deputy defense published reports that Helms!, secretary. was leaving under pressure; Early Friday the President and that the White House was! - i; and Kissinger will meet here dissatisfied with some of, with Gen. Alexander M. Haig I Helms' work. : Jr., deputy national security Helms informed the Presi-I adviser and designated to be dent Nov, 20 that CIA re- vice chief of staff of the quired all senior officials to! Army, who will report on his retire at age 80 and that he ; be- brief trip this week to south heved no exception should be Vietnam, Cambodia. Laos, and made for him, Ziegler said. Thailand. Helms will be GO on March 30. , Mr. Nixon is "totally sails- Ziegler refused to comment . , floc!" with Helms' work, Zieg- on reports from Saigon that the President had in effect de- 1(?I. said. livered an ultimatum to both The President requested Saigon and Hanoi. Helms to stay in the govern- The reports said that the meat and offered him the ;am- President warned Hanoi it bassadorship to ,Iran, Ziegler said. Joseph S. Farland, who could expect continued and in-;? s tensified bombing if it refused has been ambassador to Iran to accept a negotiated settle-since May, will be reassignedI meat and told Saigon to stoto "another important post," p { making peace proposals that Ziegler said. make it more difficult to Helms is a . native of St. reach a settlement. Davids, Pa., and a graduate of Significantly, Ziegler did Williams College. After a brief : : not deny the reports. Rather, time in newspapers, he en- he branded them a "rumor', tered the Navy shortly after and said he would not corn- Pearl Harbor and served with ment on rumors. the wartime predecessor of C When a reporter asked -if it CIA, the Office of Strategic, was the word "ultimatum" !Services. President Johnson : that bothered him, he again promoted him from CIA's dep- I declined to comment. If theilitY 196G. directorship to director in ; reports had been entirely ? without foundation he almost- in February, is regarded as Schlesinger, who will be 44 certainly would have said so. Haig left Bangkok today. one of the more able adrninis- Kissinger flew here with the trators in the government. Ile President on Wednesday and is a native of New York City is scheduled to leave some.! and was graduated from Har- : time this weekend to spend ' yard in 1950 summa cum i Christmas with his children. laude. He also received .his Reporters have repeatedly master's and doctorate de- asked Ziegler this week why Igrecs from Harvard. the President has not deliv-1 He taught for eight years at eyed a report to the nation on I the University of Virginia and the breakdown of the peace then joined the Rand, Corp. as negotiations. The report Xis.; director of strategic studies. Approvedsinger 1._MVO W tiri.a); is 'dA llI*A riw9m0?a0ih-8r say about the failure at Paris, Schelsinger Jr., who served in Ziegler said.. the White House during the There have been 00 nohlio Tiennoth, 1.4 uni 050008-2 AREA OR COUNTRY(S) HQ SECRET (When Filled In) AppormedAFar.2,,e1iase 2001illiellnsOlkdRDP84-00499.1390020606Ct008-2 SCHLESINGER, CIA Biography DCI Personnel (Key) James R. AEC Assignment Photographs IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENT (author, form, add title & length) File of biographic data on James R. SCHLESINGER. ABSTRACT Biographic data concerning James R. SCHLESINGER. 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