NEW HEAD OF THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100070069-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: April 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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EXAMINER.
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APR 12 1965
IT,
MAN IN THE NEWS
New
f, en 6 1 a f t I h, P"
WASHINGTON (AP)
s Oc cy, rOu ta1re re-,
tired vice admiral. is the
new head of the nation's
super-secret Central Intel-
ligence Agency. And in
the, word's , of a former,
fellow admiral, "the
President. got quite a
guy?
He is 59-year-old Wil-
liam F. Raborn Jr., Texas
born, Oklahoma reared;
at home in a Navy fighter
plane cockpit, on the
quarterdeck, or in the
laboratories where he
bossed the development
ni the nuclear Polaris
Jn issue sj .;tem.
Red"s the kind- of guy
who won't be distracted
by. non-essential detail,"
;.,id an cx-shipmate, a re
tired four star admiral.
"lie's a guy who drives
himself and who's one of
those lucky fellows who
commands respect and
makes you w a n t to do
your best."
Shipmates know "Red"
Raborn as a man with a
merry sense of humor, a
no-nonsense attitude
I
and who just won't admit 26, 1954, 220 men died.
there's any such phrase
as "can't be done." His
rows of medals attest to
An official commendation
credited him with "saving
many lives."
Later, tabbed to head
that. Raborn was grad- the navy's special project
uated from the Naval office, Raborn was given
Academy in 1928. the task of developing the
"Some folks wonder . Polaris as a missile cap-
how I ever picked the . able of being launched
Navy when I didn't know from a submarine while
there was that much submerged.
water in the world," Rs- Raborn served as Dep-
born once quipped on a uty Chief of Naval Oper-
visit back to his boyhood ations before retiring and
state. becoming a vice president
Raborn switched from with A e r o. j e t General
surface ? ships to flying Corp.,, in Pasadena.
and won his wings as a President Johnson, in
naval aviator in 1934. appointing Raborn to sue-
During World War II, he ceed John A. : McCone as
commanded the Navy Av- chief of CIA, described
iation Gunnel y School on him as a friend of 15
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, and years.
.then served as executive As head of the CIA,
officer of the USS Han 'Raborn will boss a huge
.cock in the war's final, complex about which rel-
punch against Japan. atively little is publicly .i
After eon'hnanding a known. What is' known
task force and serving in. is that it' includes a far-
Naval Headquarters in flung network of intelli-, t,
Washington on various gence and has as a prime
tours, Raborn took com- mission the task of mak
nand of the. USS Benning- ing sure the president is
ton. In a series of ex- fully. informed on every
plosions that rocked the :facet in which they nation
.ship -off Newport,, on May ..is -Involved, or interested;
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