C.I.A. WILL LOSE ITS ROLE AS CHIEF EVALUATOR OF DATA

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• Publication Date: August 3, 1961
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C. L: A. Will Lose Its Role
As Chief Evaluator of Data
Independent Official to Take Over Task:
ird Replace Dulles as the President's
By CABELL PHILLIPS
Special to The New York Times. _
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-The i analysis. However, its estimates
Administration is completing would cease to have primacy in
plans to remove from the Cen- the top policy councils and Would
tral Intelligence Agency its be considered on a par With
function of over-all intelligence those of others of the so-called
evaluation. intelligence community.
This function would be given The new post of chief intelli-
to a, new official free of ties to gence officer has been oilered
any operational agency, includ-
ing the C. I. A, The official
would also assume the responsi-
bility now held by Allen W.
long has been argued in Wash-
tngton that Mr. Dulles, its di-
-Dulles, C. I. A. director, as chief Hamilton was studying the mat-_
dent,and "the National Security reorganization, before making
up his mind. He was reported
was learned from authoritative
sources.
While it would mean a reduc-
tion in -status for th C. I. A.
to Fowler Hamilton, New Yor$
lawyer. It is not certain, how-
ever, that he will accept.,
Friends here said that Mr.
could not be reached for com-
ment.
Meanwhile, the Defense De-
partment announced that its in-
telligence 'opei'ati"ons were' also
being 'reorgi ze'd, "''This move
has been in process several
TIRE NEW YORK TIMES
Thursday, 3 August 1961.
Mr. Dulles is also chairman of
th eInteIligence Board, a com-
mittee of the heads of all Gov-
ov-
i~tic t -aa igag d r -- n-
in-
onths, and the net result is
months,
largely to duplicate for the
armed services the plan of
organization being proposed for
the-civilian intelligence agencies.
Under the plan anroun'"d to-
day by Deputy Secretary ?os-
Well L. Gilpatric, a new Unit to
be known as the Defense teili-
genee Agency will largely su-
persede the intelligence ar"_s of
the Army, Navy and Air Force.
It will be immediately tftitter
the Secretary and will presu'rh-
ably prepare for him intelligence
estimates free of the "parochial-
ism'"' of the separate servitz.
Behind both reorganization
plans is an identical purpose.
It is to achieve estimates of an
enctti'y's strength and intentions
free from the prejudices and
partiality that arises from the
vested interest of any organi-
zation in its own goals or po-
licies,
In the case of the services
this reached a high point in the
controversy over the "missile
gap" two years ago.
The Army, Navy and .Air
Force, relying on their intelli-
gence services, arrived at dif-
ferent conclusions about the
lag between United States and
Russian missile strength and
what should be done about it.
Regarding the C. I. A? it
telligence, which prepares na-
tional estimates.
' Since, at the same time, he is
the responsible spokesin it to
the President and to the_N'a-
tibnal Security Council.:
Some authoritative sources
professed to see in the reorgani-
zation less that is new than a
return to original concepts.
The C. I. A. was created
under the National Security Act
of 1947. Its original function
was primarily to coordinate and
evaluate intelligence relating to
the national security produced
by such agencies as the military
expressed fear that his _ eporis AtomicsEnergy Commission and
lacked the objectivity oFI hich~
national policy decisioit"5 have
to be based.
No responsible critic has at-
tributed this to intentional bias
by Mr. Dulles, but rather to a
system requiring him to wear
twpofficial hats. -
A'.further criticism ofie %n
tellig'ence structure is that
covert operations, such as this
country's intervention in auate-
gation-that is, the intelligence
community. It also had author-
ity to collect foreign intelli-
gence.
The act was flexible, however.
It contained a clause further
empowering the agency to
"perform such additional serv-
ices of common concern" as
might be directed by the Na-
tional Security Council
.
This was an acknowledgment)
that "a department of dirt
y
iecung and evaluating intelli- tricks"-an agency to operate
gence information, i with the tools of propaganda
Many contend that the Cuban ( and subversion, such as the war
in
vasion wd i
oun upn disaster
because the C.I.A. was oversold
on it's estimates of conditions
on the island.
There has been speculation
that such para-military opera-
tions will also be removed from
the C.I.A. and placed with the
P
entagon in tht
e reorganizaion,
It is believed certain that in
i l e ~t /1 ?e &
rfer exc usron o o e s a case in the Cuban affair.
dif fered
.
ices-might again become neces-
sary.
The Korean War and the
subsequent intensification of the
"cold war" gave new meaning
to the "common concern" pro-
vision. The agency began to~
build up its covert political sec-
tion.
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THE EVENING STAR
'Washington, D. C., Monday, October 16, 1961
-re -
McCarthy -~Has Doubt?'
On McCone for CIA
By The Associated Press
Senator McCarthy, Democrat of Minnesota, said today
he is not sure John A. McCone has the qualifications to head
,the Central Intelligence Agency.
President Kennedy recently named Mr. McCone, who served
.in various capacities in both the Truman and Eisenhower ad-
ministrations, to succeed Allen W. Dulles as director of the CIA.
Since Mr. McCone's appoint-
ment was made after Congress
adjourned, he will serve under
'B; recess appointment until and
if confirmed by the Senate after
Congress reconvenes.
"There is nothing particular
to recommend Mr. McCone as
director of the CIA," Senator
McCarthy said. "They lay
down five or six qualifications
for director of the CIA and I
do not know if he has those
qualifications."
Qualifications Unspecified
Sen. McCarthy did not
specilfy what particular quali-
fications he might have in
mind.
In any case, he said, he
would hike to have various
questions put to McCone when
his nomination is considered
by a Senate committee.
Under President Truman,
Mr. McCone served as a mem-
ber of the President's Air Pol-
icy Commission, as deputy to
the Secretary of Defense, and
as Undersecretary of the Ail
Force. Under President Eisen-
hower, he served for a time as
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
Senator McCarthy said some
of the actions Mr. McCone took
as chairman of the AEC
"raised some doubts in my
mind.",
Senator McCarthy has been
urging creation of a joint
Senate-House committee to
keep a check on the CIA.
Senator for Supervision
Even though the CIA is a
super-se,cret intelligence agen-
cy, Senator McCarthy said
there is a need to have its ac-
tions under congressional su-
pervision.
"Congress can be trusted," he
said.
If there had been such a
committee, Senator McCarthy
said, it would have had knowl-
edge in advance of the ill-
fated Cuban invasion last
spring.
"Such a committee," he said,
"would have at least a part in
arriving at such a decision as
the Cuban Invasion.
"If there was a serious ques-
tion as to whether such a de-
cision was wise, the members
of the committee could have
made it a public issue."
In any case, Senator Mc-
Carthy said, "We would have
known after it occurred just
who was responsible for it."
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