CIA'S RABORN UNDER ATTACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120080-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: January 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA's Raborn.:
":Under Attack
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
('L1 employes to~ his setting b$i ports before they are circulated
tirir.md-Ihc.clock watch officers :as official documents.
t., keep him constantly' Informed i "If Rahorn can help it, DO,.,
of Russian and Chinese covert CIA estimate will contain any'
operations. of those fancy, preconceived
This highly ,sensitive . check ideas as In the past," one in--
systenm was put into effect when formed legislator said. "He has
Raborn learned that either Im- , guts and brains, and all he
portant Intelligence, was not sent wants from his staff are tale
to him or delivery, was delayed I'tfacls and nothing but the facter"'?
for (lays. , ' '. Also highly regarded by ad-'
Under the new arrangement, 'ministrattoii authorities are Ra-
he is fully briefed "before 7:00 . bon's harmonious relations
a.m.," and conveys essential in- ' with FBI 'Director J.? Edgar.
forntalien to President Johnson -Hoover. They work closely and
immediately after he :awakens. smoothly tWther. '
The President., who personal-r; They have one 'thing very
ly selected Raborn, thoroughly '! much In common. The Soviet's
approves [lie way he Is flxic~ ,~ ? KOB Is out to discredit both and
t ionin and is giving him his ?` to drive them from office. Hoo-
hull support. ver Is first on KGB's list. Ra-
Central Intelligence Director
Credited with st ongly disagree-
William Rahorn is being virulehl- ,Mg with his h nose opposition
lv attacked from both within and 'to making concessions to Rus-
'4,ulside the huge agency. - by. Isla, and his fir Insistence on
some strange bedfellows, obtaining "all I telligence" re-
One of Ihesc smear cam- gardless of what er It farilillltcs
!.paigns,. which involves the air- friendly relation between the
culation of forged documents U U.S. and the So et.
and planted anti-CIA press re-.~ This Inner, attack fit, R.,.
,ports overseas, is being master- born is currently manifci. inn at?
minded by the KGB, the, Soviet 'self in "leaked" -stories to eel-
secret, police. ' i umnists and magazines.
These propaganda operation9,e usual t nor of these
`are part of a long-range Russia' ,plants" is that while. Raborn
;scheme, to discredit the CIA'4 Id id an outstandi job in direct-
'wor:dwide covert activities, and ling the' Navy's Polaris missile
: to try to. force Admiral. Reborn, program,. he d sn't know how
'out of office. The Immediate KG13 to boss or coat 1 the CIA,
!objective 'is to dry up sourics ?, According to congressional
which are giving the CIA advance !sources, these . nth-Rahorn of-
'1nformation oh the Kremlin's ma? licials, in an eft t to embarrass
chinations to foment "wars of lib- I him are endeav ing to get the
-oration" in Asia, Africa and Latin Senate Foreign elations Com- ,`
ture and success of the CIA's
covert operations was the infil-
cent Tri-Continent Revolutionary'-man, to initiate a CIA probe.
Conference in Havana. Fuibright is consi erin the neat-
At the Cuban meeting, Reds ter.
from Asia. Africa, and Latino Should Fulibright reject the
America called for,the destruct- 1proposal, it is McCarthy's lotcn-
Hon or nvithdrawal. of U.S. forces Lion to sponsor a resolution au-
from South Viet ,Nam and the thorizing such an investigation
Dominican Republic. by a, special committee, This
The other attack Against Ra- 'I would have to' be voted' on by
born Is from 'tile , redr. '? Congtes-' ~ the- full Senates
Mortal . supporters,`' of" the Navy Congressional 'friends of Ra-
tretet'stn deeM, k &s' slnlbterj.aet born attribute pome of his dif ..
e--Pthet ,,tla+ ti aY~'"4 flculjies' WIt#h long time , carter
and PAUL SCOTT INfr. Arkin
Senator, Euge McCarthy,
D-Minn., has as ed Senator '
"' A national left-wing group Is
esI4 ',encrd and ineffective are .;
President .circulating a - 1-page document
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lie is telling critics that his coin- among memoers of Lohhgresa
fidence in Raborn's ability has urging them to block more funds
grown since he became head .,of for the House Committee on Un-
CIA. 'American . Activities, Including
has strop ' au money to continue Its investiga
Rahorn -
g pport 10 '!.lion of the Ku Ill Klan. In An
Congress led by Speaker John ,'accompanying letter, the com-
McCormack, D-Mass. These leg mittee headed, by Harvey
isiators are particularly O'Connor, Little Compton, R.I.,
pressed , by Reborn's routing argues that .the KKK probe
CIA. officials out . of bed with should be 'transferred to the
early-morning calls about urgent '..House ' Judic'taiy' Committee..
developments in their areas.. Thy ' organization has' national
Admiral Raborn also is, try- headquarters 'in Los Angeles;:
ing to . keep the CIA's duper-se- with , brinehei t-4tflees .' In tm
cret lhtellige+nt a estimate & : '
bridge; Mass., ashitigion, '
vision on its toes by making thin I ,. balgo atnd San' ;W p'ranoteco.
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