LBJ SEEKS DOMINGO SCAPEGOAT; LOTS OF CANDIDATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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~,......,. __ _ ___..._ .._-_ By- TEl) LEWIS
Chief of Tan NEWS Washington $irreau
Washington.
ie gr'the Dominican Repub}ie mess. The fact that such a hunt is on is sufficient proof
4hn+ ..1?ha A Aminia4r iHrc7i '9 X01:...... 41, ..
through: phases: I. y, ., '~ I House has shown ttn similar an.
.TTie effort to"pin the blame else-
whetr. than on President Johnson
has started with a rush in the last
24 boars. The first proposal can-
didutes for the White House dog-
house have been U.S. Ambassador'
W. Tapley Bennett Jr.;. the new.
CIA chief, Adm. William F. Ira.
born Jr., and Undersecretary. of
State Thomas C. Mann. . '
It does not matter whether tj,ny'',
i,f these three are actually culpa-
ble. ,There. has to be a scapeggoat.
list, -even if, as at present, it is,
passed along surreptitiously by
officials whose tips usually reflect"
the White .House, line.,
?.It`Couid..Be ik Long List i
Because the errors in judg-
inent, or misinterpretation of the
Adnnnistration's. program f o r
bringing order out of chaos,
clination. .
Instead, Ambassador Bennett
is being blamed on various vague
counts: that he failed to hav
the ~}}'ght contacts in the Dominic
can Republic, that he overempha.
sized the danger :to American!
lives in urging the President to
rush the marines in on April 28.
of making too emotional an appeal
ce to the White- House about the
Communist, ;threat. This charged
from Administration sources that
should' know better, makes, little;
sense. Raborn.had just been s*Ofit in. e on April 28 when Johnso br4t:
dered the; marines in: The rfitf'
ti
CIA appeal for prompt aet iotI
came from retiring CIA chie
i Yv t'' a^ w , .. 1~ 'J John McCone.
tintelligence agencies. the list CIA Chief Raborn
Certain '
ensive in c pilectI911' with nder Kennedy in 1901, such
present messe -uii?, s tuatiion thati the-then CIA head' Allen Dulles
the, roll of;`wron(r guessers. an his deputy Richard, N. Bis,,ell Jr
ttlundering operatives in John' F. and the then, chairman of th
Kennedy's Bay o Pits fiasco in Joint ?Chiefa of ?Staffi Gefi . Ly
961- y many Lemnitzer But Kennedy. a
a/dmparativeii- tttnocenf' lli h that time accepted .the rov}iol
dale, t i16- hirilgolc: u a Wt~ Wligt
Mann in a Key Spot ~7
But the' digs at Raborn are,
basically aimed at the intellig't'ilcd
operation. he head's. The Stato 't)e
artment and Pentagon have 'Eop?,
intently east, aspersions on this':
F91116 of CIA "evaluations," - '
Undersecretary of State lltain,
ehught incthe?.scapegoat hunt;
airily, b&ausd.be has beer) a n+
idered ntiore instrumentnt than,.
hy" dtltot,'advi9er' in the Pfaw
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