FOREIGN POLICY: DISQUIET OVER INTELLIGENCE SETUP

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January 22, 1971
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Nixon Admninistration's?style in foreign policy: lL V' XG', k ;' ': ? STATINTL t, intr. -v.. Approved For Release 200'?/0310i44 :i lA-RDP80=0160 ;cc;cc,l'Y lay L'Ei?3Fii}TIi I ~t'L',I LES service nuclear armed s rIlC5 in or from" Cuban bases. ..Speclar to TOO ',C Tork V WASHINGTON," Jan. 21 ?-`per cent of the total, or about Career officials in the it President Nixon has become $4-billion, about $2.5-billion of ligence community' resist t dissatisfi2d with'the size' cost it on the strategic intelligence ino ', !tit reporters, but -1'r and Lila rest On tactical. It con- views Over several rnoi and loose codreiination of the tributes at least 150,000 incm- with Federal officials Government's worldwide in--bars of the intelligence staffs, deal daily . with intelligc telligence operatiol?s% which are estimated at 2.00,000' mattel's,t with men ?ret g J11s uU u.:ilt:vro L??b L?~ is the United States Intelli- intelligence provided to help pence board, set up by secret hint formulate foreign policy, order by President Dwight D. while occasionally excellentEisenhower in 1956 to coord.i- is not good enough, day after hate intelligence exchanges, day, to justify its share of decide collection priorities, as- the budget. ` . sign collection tasks and help prepare what are known as na- Mr. -Nixon, j,' is said, has"1)e- tional intelligence estimates. i lia to decide fn; hire, elf i.vhat~ The ..hair,?on of the hoard to:??riembers of people. IOlfl In C 1~CIICe adn Accordin with Borne an active duty Cuba, September.' Suspicions, based on the. ari of a mother ship, plus twc conspicuous barges of a i used only for storing a i lear submarine's radioac effluent, alerted the Wl House. That led to anti behind-the-scenes. negotia and the President's re warning to Mosbow not dicate that President N'. and his chief advisers ap elate the need for high-gi intelligence and "consume .eagerly. . The community, for instz has been providing the P: dent with exact statistics numbers, deployment characteristics of Soviet th i s Iec wig re the 'il;i:s:.?t~'+,~ e --J----_ or rpower for the talks with l be and nd where the money slhoulcI sentative, is the Director of ussians on the llinitatioi be spent instead of leavinn It Central Intelligence, at preset t a ussia is arms. i Fargely to the intelligence coot Richard Helms. The n other menl "We couldn't get off hers are Lieut. Gen. Donald V. rotinci at the talks wit; ntunity. 'lie has instructed .liiS1);ennett; head of the Defense (staff to survey the situation;Ilhtclli.gence Agency; Ray S. this extremely sophisticate( and report back within a year,! Cline, director of intelligence formation base," ? an' off it is 'hoped-with reconurell-:and research at the State De- commented. "We don't give Itartment; Vice " Adn1.T Noel our negotiators roulid figures dations for budget cut3 of as Gaylen, head of the National much as several hundred mil-I Security Agency;- Howard C. `about 300 of this weapon. lion dollars. I ]3rown Jr., an assistant general. We got it clown to the "'254 Not many years ago the manager at the Atomic Energy here, here and "here.' When Commission and William C. our people sit clovni to nego- C:entra.l Tntelligeitce Agency time with the Russian's they Sullivan, a deputy director of. and llie ' other f.ite111aence the Federal Bureau of Investi- know all about the Russian bureaus were portrayed as an gation. strategic threat to the U.S.- t" invisible empire" controlling Intelligence men are aware that's the way to negotiate." foreign policy behind a veilIof the President's disquiet, Too much intelligence has hut they say that until now Its drawbacks, some sources of secrecy. Now the pendtz- ?--half-way through his term say, fur it whets the Admin- luln hasswu.rlL,. ?--he has never seriously! istratirill' s appetite. Speaking 4.- , n . The President and his aides are said to suspect wide- spread overlapping, du.plica- tfon and considerable "boon- do-ling" in the secrecy- Shrouded intelligence "com- ? munity. In addition -to' VIC, ..c sought to comprehend the "of Henry A: Klsslnr,er, vast " sawling' conglomera President's adviser on nsticn- tion, ofd agencies, Nor, they al-security affairs, a Cabinet say, has he decided how best official observed: "Henry's ftn- to use their technical re- patient for facts." sources and personnel-much Estimates in New Form of it talented----in formulating In the last year Mr. Nixon policy. and Mr. Kissinger have or- Two Cases Ill. Poliit" dered a revision in the national they include the intelligence Administration use ---- albeit, arms of the Defense, Stater tardy use -of vast resources in and Justice Departments and spy satellites and reconnais- I t h I H- the o sign. Together they spend $3.5- billion a year on strategic intel- ligcnc e about the Soviet Union, Communist China and other countries that might harm the August is considered a case in. point. Another was poor intclli- gence coordination before the aboiitive Sontay prisoner-cf- war raid of No. 21-at which time the C.I.A. was virtuall When tactical intcllig~nceI shut out'of Pentagon planning. in Vietnam and Germany ands By contrast, the specialists reconnaissance by overseas point out, timely intelligence commands is included, the an- helps in decision-making. nual figure exceeds $5-billion, It was A?Ir. Clinewho st ot-- U-2 T111 1 1) artms say. Alpxreo ?ofril? 1~ ~1 41(1 1ih~ artment spen p e n nSmarine buildup 4t' Cienfuegos, p p the Atomic Energy Commis- sauce p a' Arab--Israeli cease-fire of last intelligence estimates, 'which are prepared by the C.I.A. after I consultation with the other in- telligence agencies. 'Some on ,future Soviet stratcgy have been ordered radically revised by Mr. Kissinger. "Our know[edge of present Soviet capabilities . allows Ienry and' others to criticize us for sodd"ie sponginess about predictin future Soviet pol- icy" an informed source con. ceded. "It's pretty hard to look down the road with the same Part of the Admini stration's tive on the Intelli,enca Board, 0 ki aRP&UI,04'R0003003NIS2L'7 a e 8 pu f fltu t and organization tae 10 per helm Said to R tc High Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Nixon and his foreii n-policy advisers --Mr.. Kissinger and Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird---respec t the professional competence. of: Mr. Helms, who is 57 and is 'the first career head of the Central Intelligence. Agency. Appointed by President Lyndon. 13. Johnson in June, 1966,.. Mr. Helms has been essentially apolitical. He is said to have brought profes- sional ability to beau' - in "lowering the profile" of the agency, tightening discipline and divesting it of rnany fringe activities that have aroused criticism in Congress and : "among the public. His standing with Congress and among the professionals is high. e According to White Hot!-, sources, President Nixon, backed by the Congressional! leadership, recently offered MP. helms added authority to coordinate the activities of the other bo_ rd m_ih~t> rs." lie is reported to have declined. A major problem, according to those who know the situa-