NEW CIA DIRECTOR NAMED BY JOHNSON

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: June 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Richard Al. Helms, 53,
Is A Career Specialist
In Cloak-And-Dagger
Activities
ew
irector
Washington, June 18-Richard
I. Helms, 53, a career specialist
n cloak-and-dagger operat.ions,
vas chosen by President Johnson
oday? to head the Central Intel-
igence Agency.
In moving up from the post of
leputy director, he will succeed
dm. William F. Raborn, 61, a
avy missile expert, who is retir-
ng after 14 months in the CIA's
op post.
Helms, a former newsman who
ntered intelli ence o ?k
g w
t to
Vorld War II
joined the CIA at
is founding in 1947.
Man With No Politics
In the CIA shakeup followin
he Bay of Pigs disaster, he too
ver as deputy director of th
lans division, which supervise
pyin,g, information-gathering an
pecial undercover operation
Verseas,
Helms was described in "Invisi
le Government," the controver
rat book of the CIA written b%
homas 13. Ross and David Wise
s a man with no politics-",lus
good professional intelligenc
tan."
President Johnson said at hi
ews conference he had told Ra
orn from the beginning tha
I elms would succeed him follow
i g e'omplction of . the - admiral'
-
t ur of duty.
Mr. Johnson also turned - to
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RICHARD M. HELMS
New director of the CIA
areer man today when he named
iosel H. Hyde as chairman of the
ederal Communications Com.
fission-the agency that supervi-
es the broadcasting and lele-
)hone industries,
Attitude Indicated
A member of the FCC since
,946, Hyde is expected to he less
brasive, with the television indus?
ry than his two predecessors-=
'ewfon Minow, who complained
f TV's "vast wasteland," and E.
Villiam Henry, who somewhat
ate mildly asked for. an im-
rovemcn(. in programing.
Accepting the International Ra
to and Television Society's 'geld
,the industry, stunts its growth,
dashes the inner spirit of creativi-
ty and inhibits growth of a liber-
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To fill the vacancy caused.by;
Henry's ~resignation, the President'
said lie was going to move Nicho-
alas Johnson, Federal Maritime'
Administrator, to the FCC.
A White House statement said
the vital decisions relating to
our rapidly changing' communica?
Lions industry call for the high r
talents possessed by these fine r
public servants Hyde. and John-
son)."
Negro Put On AEC
In other appointments, the
j.President? named Dr. Samuel M,
.Nabrit,? president of Texas South-
ern ihnivctsity, "as the first Negro i
member of the Alon)ic Energy
-Commission, and Winthrop Knol-
'ton to he assistant Secretary. of
the Treasury for International Af-
fairs. ? '
The President seemed well.
primed for a question about con-
flicting statements issued by two
Cabinet officers this week on' the
rospects for a tax cut.,
On. Tuesday John T. Connor,
ecretary of Commerce, said. no
ax increase would be. requested
nlcss there was a drastic change
n the economy. Yesterday, Henry
1, Fowler, Secretary of the Treas-
ry, countered that a tax increase
emains "very much an open
uestion," depending largely on;
hether'Congress pushes Federal
. pending considerably over Mr.,,
ohnson's budget requests;
No Policy Statement
Today, the President dismissed'
n.Connor-Fowler statements .as
personal feelings, and perhaps a.
, peculation" that do not constitute
a positive stat.cment of policy of,
t lis AdmInlstration,"
However, he hewed closer to
mvlet' s postion by saying that
only after Congress has acted on
further appropriations bills could
he he in a position to make a de-
cision whether a tax increase is
justified this year,
We are watching all the fac-
tors that must be considered, pri-
marily the appropriattions mea-
sures that are being guided
through the Congress, the Govern'
ment budget itself and our ex-
penditures in Vietnam, as well as
the private factors in the 'econo-
my," Mr. Johnson declared,
I do not care to speculate,
and I am not in aposition to do so
now, because the interpretation
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