KORTH QUITS ABRUPYLT AS NAVY SECRETARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100280045-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 45
• Content Type: NSPR

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led Navy recommeixl ions
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tis two events Is;plain.
Tn ecd; -:there "were reminders
eiday that, a predecessor a
Secretary had resigned
tly, likewise . `following dis=
inent with a Defense` Seere-
on' a carrier Issue.
Namara's Decision Surprise
rlike the' professional
c?i ls" the 'congressigpaI Joint
rtes ,_ on Atomic Energy,
tomie Energy Commis
had warmly supporter)
ails design the Navy`s
i ?racrler for nuclear
pbu ner-roufslon.
o its grreat
' su-
,
ante
l - had ,frilly
, ie v_mewportil -of fie "Atomic
P:nergy Comrttisslon-well indi-
cated during recent hearings on
capitol liIl was laid before
McNanla a this afternoon by, the
i ommis4 on'n chairman,"Glenn T
Scaborg, ; at a meeting' in McNa-
Im&a'1' o Ices
1Pastore's , letter of October -9
Ief`.no doubt that the committee
hat been deeply, impressed. byx
tas?imony''at Sclosed heart gs
FRED KORTH rieating with the "..superiority'?of
atdtnic 'piopulslon, notably that
pelted approval of that proposal; from Vice Admiral H. G. Rick-
even though McNamara had been' over, the outstanding" authority on
delaying his decision for nine. 1'4 suh'ject, and by its own ob-
months. s,rvatlon of thesea performance
On Thursday. bfcNamara's norm. of the IJ,S S. Enterprise, at pres.
CntfheNavy s only atom-propelled
[ication of a contrary decision; carrier,
clearly astonished Korth as much{{ That performance 'has demon.
as it did the professionals. Istrated to the' committee's saris-
Nitze Named Successor faction that ;nuclear propulsion,)
That Korth sprompt resigns. 'vich continues to develop under
tion ihe- ?i11 'lie replaced on NO,!Itickover`s own driving power, half
vember i by Paul' H. Nilze cur't.these proven advantages.
rently Assistant Secretary of Le t Tl'e S S U.S.S. h:nterprise needs
no fuel plac~ement for months at
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