NEW ROLE FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790111-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: May 5, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

' Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790111-9
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New Role For .,The Attorney General?
The report that Attorney Genet ob- to risk anoucry in order to establish a
ert Kennedy is being groomed_w t Alter close family-type relationship with the G.
as head of the Central Intelligence,Aeney I.. A. operations, and (2) who can say
has been' discounted and peoh-pooped but but that Robert Kennedy might figure that
it is dying hard, if at all; and some ofrthe' clandestine job. would be just the stepping
arguments against his appointment may stone he'd ? need in bis onward and upward
actually be advanced in its 'favor. 5' ; cptekt? Those cloak and 'dagger operations
The`tet,r teot'q Alin Du]les, who is ,? .have a certain glamor, after all.
1.68, was.bnl> te'r ofymonths away, be - it's a good bet, however, that he wild
fore this . Cu1aM . come- up, 'and his satisfied to sty where he is fqr the 11 Awd
stay in"Wa t ri gertainly' not been tithe being, because he is in the limelight
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lengtheryed..b. e C.IA.' part in that now and w o u 1 d be operating in the
fair. shadows most of the time in the C. I. A.;
Those; wIlo sathe ;Attorney . Genera) Allen Dulie~ hasn't ben in headlines much
isn't in line for the job - argue that (1). .,;4xcept when accusgd , of some big- mistake.
there would be too tnttch.of ahue-and-cry 4 Arid the limelight is" one thing that the
over putting the President's brother in 'as+t ;politically ambitious can't afford to avoid;
head of this top-secret agency-the weld- for the public is fickle and has a short
ing of the executive branch with its super-, memory.
secret operations would 'be entirely too Besides, the chief of an intelligence
complete, and (2) that the younger Ken- agency.must.,Veep his mouth shut most of
nedy would be moving into a political cut- the time=
atld,>wi t. blight young politico
de-sac, a .dead end. ? can afford ,to c o.1that?
On the other hand it knight be said
that (1)' the President might be willing
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790111-9