CIA'S OIL MAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000400030102-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: February 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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in the field of intelligence, you are unique, Ire yoq not, in tom
Mr. McCone: I do not know that because I do not kno
the experience of my predecessors.
ably and adequately qualified to 'be the Director'of the'
decided by others than I ...
Sen. Smith: Was there not some question in-,you, rk'min
S. Smith: Did you not raise such a, question .witb4
Mr. 'cCcac:? No; I d:d not raise it with the Presideen
Mr. McCone: I raised it in my own conscience, natuu
w;!h my wife. Yes.
Sen. Smith: But rot w=m the President)
JAMES A. WFCHSLER `... .
It1 stlu-u wr}..theft. -lr. Hcaate(!Y 1ta tpoltntasl to
?hen !' .'rt1 to d_m,u s Such _10-kierO. when lie
".', T~cvrr4 t . t `t:t fa ,e of the record-79r nt-n?rr<
For bettor or for worse. John McCone will be the t11
rtirector of the Central Intclllgenee Agency. That has been sett)
I orliaps he will confound all our apprehensions. Men hate
;?'::: e of mingled disbelief and despair.
soberly and thoughtfully raised by Sens. McCarwy,of
in tt iii,'h Cl.'i must inevitably be involved, there Is a real qua
, inn IN 1,r;'.n'r what is good for oil is good for the world. It itt to
'1 question i> >t!tet.her the attitudes of a conservattti yt tttttr',y i li;iectnr of intelligence with.-a. i?io..-
It I.nu.:ran ,o steeped in the business of oil will he helpful 1tx Of tto , k '. +.?,'?'ag (u,d non-experiet(x In the field,
the ,? ' tf uig turmoil of this area of poor, people and gr6 4..'7 Tl(,,ui;r ar, un(I Washitit tot: is thati lk ls'no-v
,,~, { h:ut a t t ,l ~' f rate ;~ hu ('(aad s;cear that lie !rn
;,t ?t ,r~-,is it u,, Ctilifornia )nsutu e of 'l'eclnwlogm', sue:' ?hin It 61s rc'tu ;:cd from Punts del Este resolve In i
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t,i,U tiUrC,lt,.ur:'b call for C. S. ii itiatlve on the banninq~ a1w' ' 7'' ?V r 01 VII 110 t icws ae the delinquencies
f+r I I i 11C~UIlC~was a trustee at Cal Tech--and"a 'C4. 1?"lll;l,a:tU'; t..: '!;;it co:,fere:.r'c.
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l;, ; u1t::, su partir.(n. lie 'prompt'v blasted the statement, o'h V' Sen. 1u;br;lht is reported plannin slew hearing y nn var nu>
u ,r. u:'ttith y Vs:ni letnind1'ti :ones, the language nt the.-tc t` iit'oposa!?. 1nr (:nrgrt.ssinrial explo;.ti1(iu of f. TA's lrr(t and In
1,,{ is> . Iii, rhet r: as Sett. McCarthy observed, indicated Lighter controls on its future.
( 1'+^ it di'h.tte on resit nlption of atmospheric tests? ?' i ~a~nuw.au~ w picnut;; ,is caief of :nteutgence.
Yet neither of these natters seems quite as declslve a$ t"
Sen. Smith: %`.' is my- recollection, Mr. McCone, th4
all of your predecessors had some prior training or expeden
in the field of. intelligence prior to their appointments as:D
mitfee-what training or experience you had in the field .of
telligence prior to your appointment to that posit'r'on?
Who Minn ,,r, ,f 1tcCune's norittnation behind ilia v,
~Sijfinx of tl .. r'; the ;(sea ;, variously- attrlbuu' l t
,.Kennedy, (;.:.. ?.!:r''.' oil 'l'.iylor. Allen Dulles and Clinto
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