REPORT MCCONE QUITS CIA,URGING KATZENBACH FOR JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400280029-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By RICHARD RESTON
Special to The Journal-American
WASHINGTON, an. 22.-Acting Atty. Gen. Nichols'
Kaitzenbach has been recommended by John A. McCone,
the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to be
It was learned today that
President Johnson is seriously
considering Mr. Katzenbach ad
Mr. McCone's successor.. In-
formed sources said Mr. Me-
Cone, has formally submitted
his recommendation to the
President but it has not yet
been accepted.
It was understood that Mr.
McCone suggested a number of
candidates for the nation's most
sensitive intelligence post.
But Mr. Katzenbach's name
was, in effect, at the top of the
list.
The President's final decision
on Mr. Katzenbach will depend
largely on what Mr. Johnson
decides 'to do about the Justice
Department.
Mr. Katzenbach has served as
Acting Attorney General since
last August . when Robert P.
Kennedy left to run for the U.S.
Senate from New York. Mr.
Johnson has never indicated
that Mr. Katzenbach would
el entuaIly receive the full title
of Attorney General.
Officials did not rule out the
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Mr. Katzenbach, 42, way'
brought to Washington by
President ,Kennedy. He served
first as Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral in the office of legal counsel
and later as Deputy Attorney
General.
He is best known for his role
during the civil rights crises at
Oxford, Miss., in 1962 and at'
the University of Albama in
1963.
At the University of Missis-
sippi Mr. Katzenbach directed &
force of federal marshals dur-
ing a night of rioting.over the
admission of James Meredith,:
the first Negro to attend the
institution.
In Alabama Mr. Katzenbach
was involved irl the "school-
house door" showdown with
Alabama Gov. George C. Wal-'
lace at the University in Tus-
caloosa, .
Mr. Katzenbach also is the
architect of the 1964 Civil
Rights acct. His work at the
Justice department has gained
him wide respect as both an
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