YARMOLINSKY'S CAREER: PROMOTION DOWNWARD?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800140004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 27, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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they would vote against the 77 the Dominican Republic as
bTheir demand was met Part of the Soloman Group,
after a key meeting in an eo,)nomic task force Yarinohnsky' s Career: Speaker McCormack's office ed by Assistant Seca tart' of
.- FT- State Anthony Soloman.
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servers blamed the Presi- ington t h e r e was high
Washington Post Staff Writer as an unnecessary sacrifice Group (as it was known by
Adam Yarmolinsky's ship. came in Monday but itI (the bill passed the. House'. then) and the work it had
docked in a tiny harbor, under cover of night. by a handsome margin); don distributing relief
others blamed Shriver. Yar? packages and making th*
The controversial Yaimo- molinsky remained silent. first attempts at rebuilding
linsky had waited for 14 after the incident, althour# . faced his accusers. He stayed time something went wrong:,
was general counsel of the silent, believing that later in Macbiavellions in V asiiint
Department of Defense, va? .3> r the year a presidential ap ton thought they saw. M
cant now 15 months. pointment would be forth- method to the delays.
The job he took was "prin? sib coming. It was understood Once, in Santo Domino, p
cipal" Deputy Assistant Sec that a firm commitment had friend asked Yarmolinsky
retary of Defense for Inter been made. what was so fascinating
, national Security Affairs. Meanwhile, he went back about the Govcrnmei}t that
If anyone thinks that is a 'to his office in the Pentagon, he would sacrifiec a luera-
McNamara's dhief tive law practice oif a top
i promotion," said a close oh .a ~ not as
affairs, "it serves Lyndon special assistants; and began an'appointmenr that seemed
right. v 1 aseries of part-time jobs for uncertain at best..
The appointment, when it ? United Press International ~ the Administration. Fot' a "In govef nm mt," he said.
came, came at 7 p.m. on a time, he worked in the Ex "you can do afore."
slow Monday, an hour after ADAM YARMOLINSKY ecutive' Office Building, on . Pentagon of- iciais yester
[ most reporters had left the ... in new job Panama .- Canal problems. da i played n )wn the a2
11' Pentagon, two days after the There were special assign pointment (wh ch pays $26, .i
and 000 per year) 4nd awaited
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President had left for Texas, Dan Smoot Report and meats for McNamara
and three days after Con- last Smoot he enp1laned for 'blast from the right-wingers
super patriots like Maj. Gen
gross adjourned. The ap- { ;- McNamara made a point of
i. pointment is not a presiden- I . Edwin A. Walker frequently sayin he would personally
t, tsar appointment,. and, thus accused him of left-wing ac- 1 "certify" Yargriolinsky's reli-
does not require confirma? tivities. ability and loyalty. The Yar
` tion by the Senate. Therein,-! His staff work on racial molinsky' ? appointment was
!'Washington observers said, Integration of armed forces., ~tOuvled with the announce,
lies the story of the. ordeal facilities irritated Southern'3 ment that Joln M. Stead-
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,,,of Adam Yaimolinsky. congressmen, his aggressive- man, Deputy :tinder Score
I' Brilliant but abrasive, the ! 1Y liberal politics irritated ~q tart' of the Army, would be-
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civamara, the
came to the Defense Depart- parentage (his father is. a to iMM post Yar
I ment in 1961 as. Robert Mc- + .Russian-born e d i t o r and molinsky held until 1964.
Questions remained. Whi?
Namara's chief assiztant. He translator
his mother is
,
did Yarmolinsky, after four
bad been a law clerk for Su-I Babette Deutsch, the po-" - ,
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o he s
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for the Republic, an editor t source or friction from his d
first moments In the Penta-/ Yesterday Yarmolinsky
i`for Doubleday, a Washing-, was not answering these or
e
b it wa not dl
a l
1964 that he.emerrgeged '?, any other questions, but id-
? ton lawyer, and a talent early
scout for President-elect as an embarrassment to Y formed sources expected that " the man who likes goveriti
John F. Kennedy during the consensus. meat because he can do
two month interregnum bee , On loan from the Penta? x " . ".: ,more would' a in a univeg
tween the Eisenhower - and gon, Yarmolinsky became de .E
facto deputy to Sargent , Laity post within a year.
Kennedy administrations
As McNamara's top aide Shriver in designing policies
he Was generally out of ~" and administration of the
sight of both. the Congress I war 'on poverty. In August,
and the press -- althoughi 1964, with poverty legisla- .1
right-'wino journals like `the' , tion b fore Congress, word
was pssed that Yarmolin-,',
ski w s ' in line for the-
deputy directorship.
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Reaction was ?instanta- ?f
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neous. ' Southern Congress.
men, particularly the North .#
Carolina delegation de-,
manded that the Admindstra-'
tion jettison Yarmolinsky or s
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