SUPERSPY RABORN'S FIRST CASE ENDS IN FAILURE

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• Publication Date: June 29, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUPERSPY RABORN'S FIRST CASE ENDS IN FAILURE
Kiev PRAVDA UKRAINY 29 June 1965--A
CPYRGAIF? Korotayevskiy article: "Portraits Without Makeup--The Career of the Superspy)
(Texr,j On Mat y e re en or a
draft law on federal aid to schools took place at the old school building in
Johnson City, Texas, in which the present resident of the White House once
attended school. Indifferently watching the familiar procedure, the correspondent
unexpectedly heard sensational news: Johnson announced the resignation of CIA
Director John McCone and his replacement in William Raborn. What type of a person
is the man who for three months now has been bossing the "empire of espionage,"
commanding more than 200,000 secret and overt agents and disposing of hundreds of
millions of dollars every year? This is .that is known about him from the foreign
press:
At 0655 hours sharp the ring of the alarm clock sounds in Raborn's apartment,
located only a few minutes away from the vast CIA building situated in the little
town of Langley near Washington. The residents of this house never deviate from
a routine which has been established once and for all. Then comes a short breakfa
Then the New York TIMES and Washington POST over the morning coffee. At 0717
the new director, invariably accompanied by detectives, takes a seat in a black
limousine and departs for the office. At 0730 the red-haired, stocky 59-year old
man enters his office, from which a picturesque view opens up of the environs of
Washington. There are no superfluous things on his desk. Raborn is a fast
worker. Not in vain, advertizing the personal qualities of the new CIA boss,
American papers noted that he "possesses the capability of solving the most diffic
tasks in the shortest possible time." The problem only consists in how he solves
them. The following facts provide an answer.
The arrival of retired Vice Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr. at CIA is not
an accident. It is true, though, that this native of Texas and former "average"
trainee of the U.S. Naval Academy has not acquired fame on the ocean expanses
or during combat; he preferred staff work on land. His "gifts" became manifest
only after the war when the United States embarked on the course of the armaments
race of working out means of mass destruction, and of new types of weapons.
Then Raborn successfully accomplished several "special tasks of the U.S. Navy," an
won a reputation as an efficient organizer and penetrating person.
Since that time Raborn has advanced rapidly. In 1955 he became head of the program
for the creation of the "Polaris" missiles. In 1958 he was appointed head of a
department in the main ordx`aance department of the U.S. Navy bureau which dealt
with the working out of rocket weapons. In these years Raborn obtained in
Congress increases in appropriations for the building of submarine rocket carriers
and he stated with martinet-like outspokenness that the "rockets would be used for
the direct hitting of targets on communist territory." At the same time, however,
the admiral-rocketman never ignored the American truism that "What is good for my
company is also good for the country." The program for the building of "Polaris"
rockets cost the American taxpayers 10 billion dollars. The vast military Aerojet
General Corporation concern in California, whose vice president Raborn became in
1963, after his retirement,-received a considerable protion of these billions.
Raborn's efforts were duly rewarded, as we can see.
And when the need arose for a new superspy the choice immediately fell on Raborn,
who is known for his close relations with both the Pentagon and the militant
rocket monopolies of California. By appointing Raborn to the post of CIA
director, the"White House only complied with its political obligation to a group
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it openly but very many people know that in the past few years a private distribu-
 tion of official posts among the biggest monopolies became established in
Washington. Thus, the post of secretary of state most frequently falls on
people connected with the Rockefellers, (John Foster Dulles and Dean Rusk) whereas
posts in the office of the secretary of defense go to Ford people (McNamara).
The California millionaires, despite all their efforts, failed to "grow up"'to the
position of a secretary. Now William Raborn has become their protege.
Raborn has not come to Langley alone . . . a person who has put espionage on a
"scientific" basis entered CIA leadership with him. He is Richard Helms, who was
appointed first deputy to Raborn. This is what American commentator Stewart
Alsop wrote about him in the SATURDAY EVENING POST: "Helms formerly occupied the
outwardly innocent post of CIA deputy director for plans--DDP as it is called in
the administration. Helms' department is responsible for the fact that espionage
activities are termed "savory affairs."
All the secret CIA operations in the past few years which became known (the Suez
crisis, the overthrow of Mossadeq's government in Iran, the events in the Congo,
the invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba) as well as many operations that have
remained unknown were the work of the hands of the "DDP." The Raborn-Helms duo
immediately began to trumpet a new anticommunist campaign. "Scratch the back of
your head," this is what Raborn likes to repeat. "Yes, yes it will be precisely
the back of your head that will suffer primarily if we fail." And the new
bosses of the espionage agency, being obviously frightened for their necks, have
begun to justify by any means the confidence of their masters. The "savory"
works of the CIA have become even more savory and the "dirty tricks" even dirtier.
American policy in Vietnam is suffering an obvious failure. The "dirty war" of
Washington has become a symbol of aggressive U.S. imperialism, the rapid change of
ministers in Saigon a synonym for the precariousness of the American positions in
southeast Asia, and the absurd attempts of the American propaganda machine to
justify the aggression against the DRV and Dominican Republic have become a gauge
of Washington's mendacity. At this moment the Raborn-Helms duo is publishing a
"document" full of dirty fabrications about the "communist threat." They are
trying to prove "it is North Vietnam that is carrying out aggression" and not
the United States. The duo also found..in the Dominican Republic the "ill-
reputed gold of Moscow" and ?Italian communists," who allegedly'directed the
patriots of Santo Domingo. Even the worldly-wise American press described this
"document" as sheer nonsense. These are the first few steps of the admiral-rocks
and protege of the monopolies who has come to head the CIA. "A dangerous person
in a dangerous position," the New York TIMES noted.
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Case No. 1 as
On 28 April 1965 Raborn's.appointment was confirmed by the Senate and he tooke the V?
oath as the new CIA director, or plainly speaking, ig.~the American "superspy,"
since, according to the law, the CIA head at the same time is chairman of the
U.S. intelligence board and coordinates the activities of all intelligence
organizations of the country. On the same day Case No. 1 -- the "Dominican
Republic" was placed on Raborn's desk. U.S. aggression against a small Latin
American country began. In the lingo of political criminals, which is so close W4
representatives of the agency of the CIA chief, it has been accepted to term such
matters "savory." The question is that it was precisely the CIA which according
to American press evidence proirolted the armed interference in the affairs of the
Dominican Republic. There is nothing sensational in this, it is just the usual
history. But the Dominican events make it possible even better to determine the
'political physiognomy of the new U.S.:.auperspy?and once more to cast a look at th
methods of American intelligence.
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"For Vice Admiral Raborn," the New York POST wrote recently, "the American
military intervention' constitutes the first risky step in the post of a CIA .`~
head . . . ;'_,)From the very beginning he very confidently insisted on the fact
that the revolt was directed by communists and that the emergence of "yet ahother
Cuba" was inevitable. The New York POST is presenting things blandly. To pvt
it in plain words Raborn arbitrarily concocted the version, of the "communist :.
conspiracy" in that country. To confirm it he even presented a list of 58
"communist conspirators." What was the and of this history? It came out that the
individuals named in the list not only had no connections with communism but
many of them had been dead or for a long time had been living outside the Dominieart
Republic.
Close acquaintances of Raborn say that it is his credo that it is better to do
something than to do nothing. The Washington Festers rephrased this statement'
that "it was better he had done nothing-at all than do something." The
cynical U.S. interference in the affairs of the Dominican Republic has aroused
such sharp protests throughout, the entire world that even by the standards of sti
gross American diplomacy an obvious mistake was made..: Raborn's "Case No. 1,"
as the American press admits, ended with his personal failure and with dust
another failure of the CIA. This is to be expected. Despite the carefully IT
planned terror, provocations, and the billions of dollars expended, the American.r;.i
intelligence machine cannot cope with the.wave'of the liberation struggle4,-And;,~iP
even such an' unfailing and "perfect",.superspy' as -.William Francis Raborn can do..1: ?,~ c
nothing about thisi it
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