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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100110037-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: July 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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dm. Williar>t Raborn, widely crit- Since Dulles resigned as CIA'
I ized director of the Central Intel- ' chief in the wake of the Bay of:
1 gence Agency, President Johnson. ,;,Pigs debacle, the agency's direct
as wise to replace him with Rich= tors have been recruited from out.
rd Helms, a"career Intelligence of- side the ranks. John A. McCone'
leer who, has served as deputy 'di- came from a background of big;
ector. business and high-level federal serer'
' Raborn's successor has. ' a.n inn- % Vice. Raborn earned his reputation;
ressive background: As deputy di-.,''as an. administrator with a keen;
ector, Helms had been expected ability to work with people ' develf
o compensate for Raborn's lack of ` 'oping complex technologies..
xperience and expertise In intelli- {` . In turning to an insider to head'
once,work. a, the. agency, the President has chos-'
Helms is the first career intelli- en" experience as the possible cost,
ence officer to reach the top of V..of increased clamor in Congress.
he CIA since Allen Dulles. Ile was for' an efilarged.watchdog commits'
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