WASHINGTON, JULY 16 - MORALE TROUBLES IN THE PENTA-

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
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The Defense Department is
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Chiefs of Stag?find their status
of principal military advisers to
the j'res*dent uncertain, if not
challenged. This is because Presi-
uent Kennedy put Gen. Maxwell
Taylor in the White House with
the fuzzy title of "military rep-
resentative of the President."
The State Department is in
a worse mesa. Its policy-making
status is confused because the
President is not only acting as
his own Secretary of State, but
has foreign policy advisers on his.
own payroll.
The Central Intelligence Ag-
ercy's similar troubles to back
to the morale-shattering Cuban
invasion fiasco, which kicked off
two Presidential-ordered investi-
getlons. Despite the probes, the
future status of the CIA is still
uncertain, altough it is expected
to be shrunk in size and its
global hush-hush activities lim-
itc~d strictly to intelligence, not Chester.-Bowles ., i
polio,'-making. On. the way opt?
The morale problem in the
Pentagon alone'iVould keep thousands of psychiatrists' couches e-'
It is because the President has a dim view of any'advkb he Beta
from Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. This
traces back to Cuba. Kennedy believes Lemnitzer was way off in
his estimate of invasion military needs. , t f i
So instead of war plans of the Joint Chiefstieing accepted
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without question on the Berlin crisis, the President' kicked around
this problem. What does Gen. Taylor think? Wbat,does 'forcer a,
-Secretary of State Dean Acheson think?
By. TED LEWIS 5._
Washington, July 16.'-'Mor'ale troll
gon, State Department.,
bad business, at any {t
a cold w ' crisis o `chi
of bitter,' angry alarm'
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current issue that there had been still another reportedtf"btiit~
meeting the rened
ew Hvannisnort July 8 with Gen. Taylor, Secretary Qt; to E k ,
Secretary oa Defense McNama.~
In response to this latest order, Defense SorafetarY McNalltaril.
according to the Journal, went directly to the.ci'jNan heads of the'
three services to get the' "new plans," bypassing "his.?own military
recommendations earlier and who were continuing to work, on the
problem."
This sort of confusion broads morttle probletns, although Pxeei-
ii tit Kennedy considers what be calls "ferment" can be it good way
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Many experts think, and?Property+ vnas wt? ~rsur. ia~w? review and pala,'dti-iepo>mtateudaUotu, et w:and4idot Lget down into
the muck an,l .mire of all the preliminar . idi ions, which it is?
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The;(t retl oo air among the higher ups at the State
Departmeft. a W CO lines of authorltl guidanee, otc.; are
in such it `t1 tgle thin` littlC can be done without far too much
confusion and ,e t ot:
Part of, ' ue~ ta:' (1) thechabtie 'staff situat on at the
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This, .tionata,of whatt,ipnthe cause of the State Department's
morale probleM comes If tgreer officers themselves. They finally
have bpgunt ,4esperation, to :leak plenty about' thin troubls.
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