MCNAMARA, RABORN DRAW FIRE OF CRITICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120063-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: February 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WAaITNt TON -? This a city o ;riddle of the Polaris submarine. Develop
r another attract the bolts of criticism ;nuclear-powered submarine that could fire .
ress anu vUILUL ouu&n- o.
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Secretarl+ of. Defense 'Robert S. McNa der its usual operating procedures.
at crash down from Capitol Hill, the': 1 medium-range missiles while underwater
elilgence Agency (CIA), Is another. Event ~."single manager" with instructions to get .)
nara Is one, and retired Adm. William Fe, . But, In the Eisenhower ' Administration,
Red" Raborn, directQof the Central Iai?.' the problem was handed to Raborn as a
bough they. share ,the same fate , on the .the job done. He succeeded. with brilliant
ecelving end of consistent 'and high-pow-`. results, and the single-manager concept 18
Rabe rn's Defense Is Silence little glamour about this square-rigged'.,
red-faced admiral, He Is quiet, plodding, `
McNamara underneath it' ail a sense- ' " anti even inarticulate when required to.,
C and DC current. Despite the glamorous results, there is
five man, shrugs-off criticism with an out- "speak without preparation , as in the inner
him ,kind of personality to` evoke the admiring
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hat usually incites, his critics to hit
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ightning rod - that 1s, drawing, the at? f,;,, loon into a cause celebre, particularly.;
he issue Involved has become moot, and , basis. His vow of silence strongly Inhibits
ng his foes. press - not-even to see members of !hat
figures and statistics which sound good On top of this,' Raborn has made a de-
quick . :,,comments on which Washington society
gain. But, then, because he is a
tudy" and far from averse to rattling off '' dotes.
dent, who Is, after all, ultimately respon? I. for verification purposes,
azzle-dazzle, is currently being clobbered been demanding a Senate Foreign Rela- J
vet'nment. Raborn Will root suit I
Raborn, who has none of McNamara's Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., has
y, -they hew to the, line of non-lnterven-`];;''. made available to it. McCarthy's gripe to
ndborn became' a'nl!itiohai fig~ire when k4, ae r'e` defense, with the added detei mfn ':
16,1ec the Pentagon team that ?solied ttltl ion not to quit under.?fire. ';i+ ,.
routs oe x-o--go on sne vitensivc, as r,~-~nce, F In this,-tne first wasnington?type Dottie
Mich, Is aarr, defense sit: ejll r his life, he Is continuing to rely,'on'silence
, a
achiavellian hand of the CIA. In every he is dissatisfied, than at the CIA Itself,
aneuver. of that sort.
r ,, But it is one more instance of light-
Raborn's defense, where McNamara'e: i ..'nlnir cracklin?:around Raborn'a'ears. Andy
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