MCNAMARA CHOOSES YARMOLINSKY AS AIDE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800140003-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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OCT 2 6 '965 ,:
McNamara Chooses
Yarmolinsky As Aide
Selection Is Expected To
Be Controversial One
Because Of Attacks
By Right Wing
By PHILIP POTTER
[ Washington Bureau of The Sun]
Washington, Oct. 25-Robert S.
McNamara, Secretary of Defense,
tonight announced the appoint-
ment of Adam Yarmolinsky as
principal deputy Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense for International
security affairs.
The appointment is certain to
he one of the most controversial
in the 'Johnson Administration
because of the history of right-
wing attacks on Yarmolinsky,
one of.the architects of the Presi-
dent's anti-poverty program.
When the Administration's
measure establishing the Office of
Economic Opportunity was be-
fore the House last year, Southern
congressmen made it clear they
would withhold support unless
they had 'assurance Yarmolinsky
would not lie considered for thel
post of deputy director.
Promise Given
They were given that assurance
on August 7, 1964, by Republican
Ladrum (D., Ga.), who was
handling the anti=poverty legisla .
tion for the -Administration.
He told the House he had. word
from the President that Yarmo-
Nasky would not get the appoint-
cairymgs around ;a Ifousr rn 7ast l4ia' or June, 'hut he. had
American., Activities Conlmlltee not agreed to ac,kpt it until
report on Y ar molinsky's ,parents, last weekend
Avraham )"id Bagette. ,;Yarmo Confirmed By Aide
Iinsky ' i Yarmolinsky confirmed' this to-
Reasons Given night, asserting he had for so! to
According to the Esquire report, time been considering other oo-
ttae Southern demand for there- portunities putside of . govern-
jection of Yarmolinsky was wit- ment and had made up his mi;id
ncssed by a' number of key liberal to accept the new Pentagon post
Democrats including Representa- only' during the weekend.
five O'Hara of Michigan, who,at- He said the (iming-so so)n
ment as deputy to R. Sargent tended a meeting in the Spoaker's after adjournment- -had nothing
Shriver, brother-in-law of the latel office. to do with Congress; or the pos?
President Kennedy, with whom
Yarmolinsky had worked to shape
the program.
For four years Yarmolinsky,
wlio a een -o-n-e-b-17 c amara's
top'.assistanU-1i1"the' Pentagon
since 1961,' had-been'under attack
from right-wing journals, includ-
ingrv'"Dan Smoot's Report" and
Esquire 'reported that D. B. sible reaction there, particular? y
I-lardeman, an 'aide. to the House since the 'deputy's job "did_ . not
leadership, told! O'Hara there' that require confirmation.
the reason for the opposition to Yarmolinsky made it clear, in
Yarmolinsky was "It's some anti- fact, that he would have welcomed
Semitism, 1 think, and the Rusa s showdown in Congress fiftci,n
sian-sounding name, and Dan 'months ago, when it was general:v
Smoot's been gunning for' him." understood' he would have been
-Among those at the meeting was named Shriver's deputy had the
Representative Rivers (D., S.C.), Administration not felt it neces-
" as an alleged Iwho has since' become chairman sary to sacrifice hied to get the
"Common Sense
,
,?,? ~~ ' , of the House Armed Services Com- anti-poverty bill enacted.
security ris
~.... mince, 'which has jurisdiction Parents Defended
When the word was passed. onover the Defense Department: As for the efforts ?y right-wing
Capitol Hill in August, 1964, that' Backed By McNamara . commentators and others to tag
he was, in line. for the subordinate" , McNamara, announc}ng Yarmo- his parentage as s .aspect, Yar-
post under Shriver if, the anti- linsky's appointment, to ? the new :m6linsky had this to say:
poverty legislation were passed, Defense, Department. post tonight, ."My. parents both haver out-
conservatives looking fore means said. standing anti-Communist -records,
of attacking the Administrataon "I would personally certify as. It was my mother who introduced
proposal zeroed , in on, Yaiimohn to' his reliability and loyalty, You Boris Pasternak's '1)r. ' Zhivago'
sky.' I to the American public, by way of
can put that.on the record. ' ,
Esquire Magazine last February, said it was "entirely coincidental"
the North Carolina delegation in that announcement of the appoint-
the House of Reprercatatives ment came three days after the
made Yarmolinsky's head the adpournment of the first -session
price for their; support bf the bill, of the eighty-ninth Congress,
The ? 'magazine quoted Repre. They' said PiMcNainara had of.
sentative ' Whitener (D., N.C.) as fered him the jost, which in some
'saying . he had' received many respects narrows the responsi-
complaints..-against Yarmolinsky. bilities,Yarmolinsky has been -till.
xtie was dertaking? fo01hg; Defense . Chlctfr
the anti-Communist novel. Mv
father is ' a..retired . Elavonic
scholar; attacked by Communist
publications ' as- 'a idol -Of reac-
tionaries."
He conceded that his mother
had been "a great one for signing
petitions," but added, "Neither
of my parents are even Socla-
iats
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