NEW YORK TIMES - NIXON REPORTED WEIGHING REVAMPING OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002000080027-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 11, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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I gy BEivJ~1:(oilitii 4tli/LLE~ gence provided them. aome~auce to, the South Vietnanzese~ rs-~ p?~,pro n, '
iWhite House of;?icials estima?e~.~rmya incursion into Laos i~eb.~ - ~-~~ ~"~~>~~
Spedal to ih: \ c: ,c;`> Tiutes r 1 ;15 LO i1larCil 25. `
` WASHIi`?GTON, ?Say lU -'tl;at at least Sb00-million ?o?: c. ~ ~,
rr ! o ~ 1 Their'r.'.stimatesZlerelielter' ! Assistazt'Secretary of Defense
(President Nixon is said to beib~ out from the .,5-billion spent
Ic~>nsidering a m or reor~ari-!annually on national intelli-! ~ "HanUi threw 3:1,000 men or` hs e~}imated costs X2.9-billion
I 1 ~ , a Spence. f four divisions against the yearly.
zation of the nations forvi?n o
intellip^nce activities *_o im- fir. Nixon and 1~Tr. Kissinger'17,000 in ARVAI," .said one "LVhen you have fire auihor-
?'`" ~hance, over the glo-lice has frequently failed toistAorl of _:~ Iic; v nc,,u~~i7;c?t ..f ,~,.,~.....lrtts : - - -
g" forecast such sudden develop- mtelli?once to b headed by an~ wrote Pdr. Helms ccngratulat-
bal intelligence operations of ~ .
ty'ze Pentagon and other. fed-Invents as the riots that forced~otficial of Ctbt..et rank. Its h~~ the C.LA. on its recent an-,
oral agencies. Ia political reshuffle in Poland woul~t corlbSne the Centr?1 In- Huai esti:nat~ of Soviet defense
The reor~ranirati~sn plan. has lastDecetnber. telli;~rcce Agency with 15,000 ;capabilities.
? ~ Par. Nixon is particularly dis- civili:?n emp~oyes; the' De.ens.. Tee provide cct,t.rol over the
recently b; ?a presented to lsatis.ied, his associates say, bylDc arimeni's code-craclciug ri'a-
President rtixon. It covers 30 f I p a Inge intelligence system a d,
to ~0 -typ:.writteri pages and(the cost and size of the Gov- tionat Security agency with make it responsive to his needs,'
was ' preUi.rrd prima..?i1y by ernment's global intelligence on-1106,000 uniformed personnel ~;r. Nixon rs ?likely, his staff
Janice R. Schiesir:ge>, assistant orations when compared with~and tic Defense Intelligence i,ssociaies say, to choose one-
their results. In addikion to the~Agency v~ith 3,000. T?he C.Lr ? or a combination of - th~~
director of the Office of. i,Ian- r,?,iddle options before hint ti~at
agement and f~ud:tet, and K. Central Int~L'igeuce Agency, spends about ;500-million
Wayne Smith, a for77ter Pen- fide federal agencies are in- yearly; the National Secut'it.yl d~. not require Co.tGressio;:s~I
volved in intelligence overseas. Agency S.l-billion and tize 1;e- apprc;;~al.
tagon systems ana.yst now on At least 200,000 people are in- Fence Intelligence-Agency S50C-~
the ;r'ational Security Council Closer Ties possible
staff. volved, 150,000 of these uni- rnillinn. ' + i
~ The informants say the plan formed personnel in the De- Tli~ merit, seu:e ef:perts say,; ' It is likely, officials say, that ;
grew from instructions itilr. fence Department. would be to concentrate in Dire! ?,,r. ?:i::on will eventually bring
The President was seriouslylciepartmenttlie collection of , :,'r. helms and a top-level staff
Nixon gave his staff last ar- irritated, aides say, by two re- Torei;n intelligence now par-I io: cvai_:a.tors from C.LA. h2~d-
tumn, to draft various 'reg.-
ganizational and cost-cutting cent failures of the Pentagon's tormzd not only by the C.LA.~ir_uai?tct:, to hanglcy, Va., closer
Defense Irteliibence Agency, but also. by tl:e Arr,~y, Navy,1 ~ ?,z the ti:'hite Ho-.tee, possibl}r
studies. which numbers 3,UG0 and and Air Farce separatelyiinto the National Securit;,
Complaints Voiced sp;:nds an estimated 5500-mil- zround the.worid. However, op-~;Co!tncil staff.
Both the President af:d Hen- ion yearly. Ono ,vas faulty in-position ;Would be forthcoming Officials coney ethat under
A. Kissinger, his assistant teliigezicP prior to tize abo ~ive:from vested interests in tP,e .a. reorganization ;VIr. liehns
rY ~ ~ g ,zt relinquish to his deputy,
'for nationrl security affairs, prison?camp raid at Sontay, in arn.cd services and in Conbress. ~:':;g'
have frequently expressed dis- Nortl: Vietnam, last November.`They say, therefore, that nlr..~ Lieut. Gen. Robert E. Cushman.
satisfaction over the erratic The other was failure to fore-INi.~on is unlil?:ely to adopt it. Hof the Marine Corps, some of
quality of, the #oreign intelli-,cast North Vietnamese resist- At tl:e other end of the scale, his responsibility for the C.LA.'s ;
-- `,infaimants report, R~Ir. Nixon! day-to-day collection opera-
Icould merely issue an ex-i tions andQ oncentrate, instead,
ecutiv~ order defining - thus ~ on intelligence evaluation for
: r..-_:a?-.~ one nnc-+hili,ttr
strengthening - tY~ aut'ority' tha jiG?'u?~?~? r.,_???-..--~,
of Mr. Helms over the intelli-~ envisaged under the reorgan-
gence operations of such potver~ zration would be the creation
ful federal agencies as the by bor. Helms of an evaluation
.Pentagon, -the State Depart-) staff in the White Haase drawn
ment, the Atomic Energy Com-; from the C.LA.'s Office of Cur-
mission and the Federal Bureau' rf:nt Intelligence and its Office
of Investigation. of National Estimates. The
Officers Meet Weekl latter prepares long - range
Y studies in depth of potential
Their principal intelligence 'trouble spots.
;officers meet weekly as mom-' Another would be the crea-.
bore of the United States In- tion by Mr. Nixon of a White'
? telligence Boa. d. iVlr. Helms, as House intelligence evaluations
the President's chief intelli- staff made up of Mr. Helms,
gence adviser arcs head of the riat.ions and Foreign lvelations
committees, their rn'o~tests ap-
parently ~wt~nt tmhcedcd.
Senator Stemtis +va~ travel-
ing i.oday anch unavailable for'
comment i~ir. Helms, too was
unavailable. ~
Sources close to the intclli-~
f;encc community, however, ex-i
In?esscd surprise that: Senator!
Stennis was insistin+4, on a civil-i
ian deputy. 'T'hey inointed out:)
that 114 r. 1-[elms anr} Isis senior)
aides traditionally prefn_r aj
militar,v deputy to r~htain quick,,
,dose rrrnpct?alion ti~iih t}tc~ 1)ai
fcnsc Dcpartmc+rt aruuru:l the
~.vorlron had not, ctm-
sultrsd Mr. Ticlms either in nam-
ing ~;cneral Cushnutn to be his
dei>'Eli,i~ a1; the start oP the Act-
mirlislratirrn or in rccenUy pro-!
porting General Walters.
'General Cushman, who he-
car7~c commandant. of the A4a-
rir5c Corps on .I,ut, 1, was naval
a~,ric to ;v1 r. Nir:rtn during his
ir~rms as Vice President. ? Gen-
ca~al VJalt.crs has also bcr^_n pcr-
~kmall" identified with A:1 r.
~tii~:~n for mere U:;,n :?0 ~~,.
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