KATZENBACH CONSIDERED FOR NEXT CIA DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400280031-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: January 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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1 ')6i and at the University'
Johnson Studies McCune Recomrnenclatior . ;?laban]a in 1963 . f
Al the University of Mis-
That Acting Attorney General Get Post is-sinpi two years ago. Katz-
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, atze c Consdered.
~pr,ty attorney. general.
He is known best for his'
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nbr c h dll cete
BY RICHARD RESTON eral' marsha.lg during a
Times staff writer ii;ht of rioting over the ad-
CPYRGHT
WASHINGTON-Acting Atty. Gen. Nicholas atze n-1 i e rs " `" "
'bath has been recomntendt'cl by John A. McCone, diree-tend the institution.
tor of the Central Intelligence, Agency,. to be the next: Liter Katzenbach was -in
"' `"CIA leader. volvad at the University of
It was learned Thuf sday; Alabama in the "schoolhouse
President Johnson is door" showdown with Ala-
,that Gov. George Wallace.
.considering Katzenbach as' ? 1"{atzenbach also is the ar-
McCone's successor. chitect of . the 1964 Civil
McCone's formal resignaJ Rights act. His work at the
tion is before Mr. Johnson; J u s t i c. e Department has
but it has been neither an-gained him wide respect as
nounced nor accepted. both an administrator and a
It was undenitopd that Mc "tough-minded" legal expert..
Curie sugested a number o He has an extensive legal
candidates foj,'the nation;; background and is a gra-
rriost sensitive intelligenceduate of Yale Law School.
post. But Katzenbach's name He also was a Rhodes Schol-
was at the top of the McCorre ar.
list. He served as a navigator
The President reportedly, in the' Air -F ore e dur-
l>as not made a final decisions ins ~~ or.ld War II and spent
on -Katzenbacli. That deci-' two -years in a..German prix
sion will depend lar;;ely on o,] camp after li.i:i plane was
,what Mr., Johnson decides to,shot down over the Medi ter-
?do about the Justice :Depart=,` '
:meat. rane,tl in February, 1943.
,
The CIA post` is opening
Started in August becaw,P of McCone's desire
K atzenbach has served ~:slto return to.private business
acting attorney general sine-ein LoEr Angeles. McCone has
last August, when Robert 17.serve.cl. in his present capaci-
Kennedy left to run for the ty since 1961 following a CIA
U.S. Senate from New York. shakeup after the Bay ofd
!Mr. Johnson never has rods Pigs cIi' aster Ht succeeded)
cated that Katzenbach Alkei ~D{tslcr~ ,,...?_.?-.;,
would eventually receive the
full title of attorney general.
Officials did not rifle out,
the possibility that Natzei i-!
Bach will be asked to stay on
ident John F. Kennedy. I e
,first served as assistant.at-;
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