HERALD TRIBUNE SAYS CIA CHIEF WILL RESIGN

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• Publication Date: December 3, 1964
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HERALD TRIBUNE SAYS CIA CHIEF:WILL RESIGN
Moscow Domestic Service in Russian:1500 GMT 3 December 1964--L
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commentary: What Is Concealed Behind the Resignation of McCone?")
(Text) The American newspaper New York HERALD TRIBUNE has reported that U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency boss John,:McCone has secretly approached President Johnson with a
resignation. request. Nominally there are several reasons explaining, this step. First,
it is explained by age-.-on 4 January McCone will be 63,.and second by the business
considerations of McCone himself, who is proud of his reputation as a big businessman
and of the nickname "Mister Million" which the press gave him. And, finally, the
third nominal reason for McCone's resignation, gathered by inference fro,s observations,
is of an ethical nature. McCone'does not want to be connected with President Johnson,
who, it is not unlikely, wants to have his own man in a post as'important as
that of director of CIA.
Many people,. including American political observers, interpreted all these explanations
very skepticall-y. As a matter of fact, murmurs of such moral considerations, when the
matter concerns McCone, can only make a mockery of this concept. It is known, for
example, that when he occupied in 1958 the post of head of the Atomic Energy Commission
and-then in 1961 that of director 'of CIA, this millionaire, despite the existing
laws in the country, did,not give a thought to giving up his shares in various
industrial ,and insurance companies. On the contrary, he acquired an additidnal
O quantity of shares in one of the country's largest oil corporations, Standard Oil of
alifornia; shares worth in all a million dollars, And the workers of CIA, knowing
heir boss well, from time to time forewarned journalists: When McCone smiles: do
of be caught napping,, and, by the way, they quickly recalled in this connection that
t was not for nothing that the chief of the American knights of the cloak and dagger
ad already for several years been a member of the trust council of the Jesuit
gnatius Loyala University in Sari Francisco.
us, the affair does not concern moral and other considerations, and the American
ress prefers for the moment not to speak about the actual reason for McCone's
esignation. The reason-for it consists, in the first instance, in the serious
ollapse of American foreign policy, which, to a considerable degree, is formulated
n the data provided by the CIA.
asing its activity on defense of the interestsof the largest monopolistic groups,
ased on the ideology of anticommunism and militarism, the CIA is proving incapable of
more or less objective correct appraisal of the balance of power in the'world arena.
e failure of the political course of the United States in such regions of the globe
a, for. example, Cuba, South Vietnam, and the Congo, is the result of this. The
merican journalists, David White and Thomas Ross,,drawing attention to the
ubversive aggressive activity of the CIA, just call it "The Invisible Government,"
ich now and then acts indepond4ntly even of the President of the United States.
ere ii a basis to-suspect, White and Ross write, that frequently the foreign
1 licy of the United States as made public in the speeches of the state officials, lots
one direction, while secretly, through the invisible government, it acts in
e opposite direction. And can it be otherwise if McCone himself is a big
uJilitary industrialist, closely connected with a Californian monopolistic group
ich is building its prosperity .on the arms race. Characterizing the opinions of
Cone, the journal, (name indistinct), writes that he is,possesed .frith hatred for
c mmunism and the revolutionary changes occuring on every eoaztinent. `This is why, in
t e compilation of the recommendations of his department to the Government of the
U ited States, McCone made the main thrust on the military solution of international
obiems an Issue. Resolutely opposing the relaxation of international tension which
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began to appear after the signing of the Moscow agreement on the partial banning of..
nuclear tests, McCone encouraged all the people who attempted to shift the courser-of
the present American government to'the right. He does not agree with .the present
course adopted by Washington, which is compelled to take into consideration the broad,
mood of the cquntry, (a fact with which?) the majority of observers explain McCone*t
resignation.
It is reported that during the next few days he will have to continue carrying out his
duties, while in Washington the name mentioned more frequently than others as being
that of the man who'has agreed to take from. McCone'a hands the`pos~j ofDirector of
CIA,'is`former assistant to the Secretary of De ehae Roswe12.O11patia. True, as
O reports, Gilpatric is by no means hastening to take~the opportunity of the
proposal made to him. One'can understand such doubts it (one word indistinct)
legacy -left?behind by John McCone..
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