SEARCHING FOR SCAPEGOATS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090026-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: June 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

W TIMES - No. 22
Sanitized - Approved For Release:. CIA-RD
le, CPYRGHT 14O6COWr U. be be R.
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gable. There has to be a scapegoat "r?'
]1st even if? as at present it is pass-' r?
,.,, ?. ,
ed along surreptitiously by, officials.:;
whose tips usually reflect the White
House . line.
Because the errors in Judgment, or':
misinterpretation of the Adminls-,
tration's programme. for bringing-
order out of chaos, involve diplomat.', .?; r1'
the list of 'scapegoats could be pret-{~'t?
ty long. Certainly ,it could be . more': ?r?;+
extensive .in connection., "witho; fhb,"." "
present finessed-up 4ituatlon th n 'the''
roll 'of wrpng guessers .and ? btundor",
tog opi ra lvss i>p 'Joh.s Fy I needy a~
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JUNE .1965
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' Searching for Scapegoa - ' Y
' News? where It was published on May 22, under 'the title of "LBJ S eks in on April' 28.
f" Dofttngo Scapegoats, told df_Candidates.''? Rabgirn pf the CIA S. accused ot/~.
making too emotional an 'appeal, to
p RESIDENTIAL advise are now ~F' ax vel
y Innoceht high ifl- the White House about the commun- r.
.,Cotr}p
The tact that such a hunt is on is";.,-',head Allen Dulles, his deputy' ch-e .better, makes little sense. Reborn
sufficient proof that the Adminlstra;, 4; and M. Bissell and the then C lr- had just been sworn. in on April 28
Lion realized. the whole military In-man of the Joint Chiefs of it, when Johnson ordered the marines
tervention operation has beef .foul-''.' Gen: Lyman Lemnitzer. But Ke no. ' In. The main CIA appeal for prbmpt. I
od up In Its follow-through, phases. )'"!AY at that time accepted the-'w ole',' action-came tram retiring CIA chief
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The effort to plti the blame else. " blame' himself. ? To date ? the' ?. Raj- John McCone.
where than on, President 'Johnson House ' has shown ? no similar I 01J~?;, But the Al gs at Rabor>t are bass-
has-started With a rush in'the last-, natl6r.' .', oally aimed at the Intelligence ope?'
24 hours. The first proposed candi-Instead, Ambassador Bennet Is , ration he -heads.. The' State Depart+ i~
dates, for, the White Jouse, doghouse eing :'blamed'. on. - various .? v gut ? ?metft',and ,Pentagon have conslatent;-,
have been U.S.... Ambassador W. Tap..:-,, 4 ntAj' that' .he failed.- to have th~ lr cast aspersions on the?.`value of
by Bennett, Jr., the now CIA chief,:',.', right.Coritatte In' he D6 oil lie- PIA "evaluations:
ti Ir
Adm. William F. Reborn, Jr.,
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C!. Mann. it does not ,natter whether s.: ' ? . .. d r r ..'. ,?. ..~
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