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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130114-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: July 17, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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tary of state. Some officials
there regard Mr. Bowles as an
outspoken attvocate of the
President's own Ideas and oth-
ers as a political embarrass-
ment. Accordingly, the first
group wants the President to
keep him on and the latter to
fire him at once.
One suggestion has been that'
!he be sent to Chile as ambassa-
dor and another that he should;'
be given the post as envoy to
Brazil, although this has al-
ready been promised to Lincoln.
Gorden, a Cambridge, Mass,,
,professor and former official of
the International Cooperation
Administration.
If, however, the issue of
policy and administration can-
not be resolved between the
President and Mr. Bowles, it is
highly unlikely that he will re
main in the administration in
,gUrw,rapacity.
. result, 110 Wa tended to
blame Mr, Bowles fox' these de-
llsys, since the under secretary's
office is presumed I.o ba re-
sponsible for the admntj>a-
' All this has produced the first
major quarrel 1tl the adminis-
tration. Part of it. is personal.
Mr. Bowles has always been
a controversial . figure within
the Democratic Party, regarded
by the conservath.v , the South-
erners as a devotee of a planned,
economy and the welfare state,
Unpopular Issues
He has been ~a supporter of,
issues that are unpopular with
the conservative wing of the
I Democratic Party, such as
price-fixing during the war, for-
eign aid and discussion of the
problem of the admission of the'
Chinese Communists into the
U.N.
1 What makes this a particu-
larly sharp debate within the
Democratic Party here is that
President Kennedy himself is
understood to favor many of
the controversial positions Mr.
fBowles takes, but is embar-1
rassed politically by the frank-!
ness with which Mr. Bowles',
gstates his views.
All this was discussed beJ
Lween Mr. Bowles and the Pres-
ident last Thursday, They came
to no resolution of the problem
at. that time, and. since then
Mr. Bowles' opponents have
been openly demanding his res-
ignation.
It is known that within the
White House there is a differ-
nee of opinion on what should
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