WHAT GEN. TAYLOR WILL BE DOING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700480019-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 28, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

WASM GTON POST JUN 6 1961 A( 7/9 ,1, .
AND A00"r'ovie'dWdIease 2005/01/05: CIA-RDP75-0011g1W04819-i
'What Gen
Will Be Doing
By Mar
IN APPOIN Maxwell D.
Taylor to be his as"sistant Pros
ident Kennedy ha en a step that
can have a very "la '. bearing on the
future course oft dministration. It
is, above all, 'Tay -) experience and
background that 7"resident will call
upon not only for to trials just ahead
but in shaping future policy for the
long pull.
The Immediate n&'d is on Berlin. As
the first U. S. Commander, Berlin,
from 1949 to 1951 he did an outstanding Immediately following his retirement
job. Without bluster or brag he set he wrote his hook, The Uncertain True-
the firm line for American and Allied pet, which is perhaps the most cogent and
rights in the zones of occupation, Tay concise case for the need to be able to
for showed more u{iclerstanding than fight brush-fire wars short of ` 1 5Tve
most ,professional solders of the West retaliation." Z 'M
Berb~} rs and their difficult position The Uncertain.--Tr umpet great] . im-
on Off' island in tlie 'Communist sea. pressed the then Senator Ken "So
In laining to t1e tt..Cbiees of, did an article which Taylor wh in
St i who he cleared the bp-. ilie spring of 1956 for Foreign Affairs
m er~`~~trpress upon magazine in which he advocated a..
th at this would incan no cutting flexible program of deterrence that
across their authority, JjjgL resident. would include limited_war capability as
said 1>e would in tiie first instance want, ; well as hydrogen bombs delivered by
{ lnr to, coordinate all Intel- bombers and missiles. The Defense
]ig' fs o its co;1ing 'into the White ; l)epastment ordered the article ' Bras-
his is considerable under- tically revised if it yie;e,to be published,
taxing and, as t'he 'President recogiyit'd, ,'nd Taylor withdre}v,"it,, inclufitig it
it caI,,s for someone with a thoavgh after his retirement as an appendix to
seemed tq be tiring to do just that.
Z
TA LJOR'S first assignment, as" co-
ordinator of "intelligence, suggests i.'hat
he will be called upon to do if Anrl
wn the -crisis" over Berlin abater,'.
That is to -try to bring order and, rea
son. in "fiole intelligence oiiera'
do at with overlapand dupli-
cation U,,has v" "'to staggering si7.c.
11-a fit been called upon to inrlui, P
into the,wotl ing d7, the Central Intl-
].igence `A envy following` the Cubs.ri
disastlfiaststri"e Idea alma Jxr
of y" s ould be done. What with
9:he .CI e Army 1'avy and Air Force
the to `herf of persons engaged
direc { n i ee y `iff I elligenc?
is e Mmes the total per-
sonas e '1 clrotmef t"of state to-
gether tiit1i the oreign Service. The
waste 6f''none5 rand manpower can
readily be imaginld
Another reason f' d 't'aylor's appoini.-
ment is his deep cdYiietinn of the urgent
need to increase Mnertc'a 5 capacity to
fight limited wars that stop .,hort of
nuclear bombing and even of tactical
nuclear weapons. Over this issue he
broke with the Eisenhower Administra-
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1959 at the age of. 58.
White House staff!.
en"`"Iiou11i at times he has
TAYLOR argues in his book the need
to recognize the limitations on atomic
retaliatory forces. This naturally worn
him the hostility of `the Air Force. It
is incredible to ou"rs:,lvcs, to out Allies,
and to our enemies, li'a. writes, that vge
would use such fo.rees` for any 'purpose
other than ire our national
survival.
itr
Saber rattlixl -_-Was ~ n never part of Tay-
lor's equipmell, rt s rise to four-star
rank and Chie , aff of the Army.
When the overwhMI - ng- opinion in the
Administration in I OFebruary, includ-
ing that of Seere ari of State-Dean
Rusk, was for Ater L e~ntion in Laos
with SEATO _.for es 'nel ding those of
the United State ?v or was asked
for his view. He is ~to have advised
against such inteit, pointing out
that Laos has a thousand-rile-long bor-
der with Communes china and North
Viet Nam across sic unlimited mare--
power could be potlte` ? 11iis coincided
with the warnings AYYS others and the
President decider agains that under-
taking.
Taylor argued in his years as' Chief
of Staff the urgent 'bed for what he
called certain "qui-' es " headed by
the need for imlro $Tanning and
training for limited 6.- His Yrecom-
thezi. Perhaps nowly1relatedly, they will
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