A.E.C. CHIEF TO REPLACE HELMS AS C.I.A. DIRECTOR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 22, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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?President Nixon said today
that he woult-;. nominate James R.
Schlesinger, who is chairman of
the Atomic iThery Commission,
to be Direct:: ?I Central In-
telligence.
He said also that he would
nominate the current director,
Richard Helms, o be Ambassa-
dor to Iran. .
Mr. Helms's departure from
the C.I.A. was &Scribed as a
retirement, consistent with his
feeling that he, like other C.I.A.
officials,. should retire at age
60. He will be 60 in March. once interviewed Hitler, as a
There had bCen rumors that reporter, epitomizes a genera-
Mr. Helms was being forced tion that developed its exper-.
out of his job.
The White House took pains
to affirm the President's appre-_
ciation for Mr. Helms's 30 years
of public service- and for the
ifact that it will continue. At
the same time, the departure
from the C.I.A. is touched with
symbolic overtones.
In the opinion of knowledge-
able officials; it means the end
of an era of professional intel-
ligence operatives and the be-
ginning of an era of systems .
r. Helms, who Continued on Page 13, Column;
Tho New York Times
James R. Schlesinger
tise during World War II and
subsequently helped to create,
the C.I.A. When appointed in
June, 1966, he was the first
careerist to become D.C.I.?Di-
rector of Central Intelligence.
Mr. Schlesinger, by contrast,
is a 43-year-old economist and
political scientist schooled in
strategic studies, systems analy-
sis, and defense spending. The
author of a detailed report on
the intelligence community for
..s.m.a.nagement.
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Continued From Col. 1, Page 7 that he would return to Wash-
ington and be reassigned to
another post.
According to a private
source, the outgoing Deputy
Secretary of State, John N. Ir-
win, is Mr. Nixon's choice to
become Ambassador to France.
The position has been vacant
since the departure in early
November of Arthur K. Wat-
son, who is Mr. Irwin's brother-
in-law.
In the first news briefing of
the President's week-long
Christmas trip here, Ronald L.
Ziegler, the White House press
secretary, also dealt with the
following appointments topics:
ciMr. Nixon has accepted
"with very special regret" the
resignation of David M. Ab-
shire as Assistant Secretary of
State for Congressional Rela-
tions. Mr. Abshire will become
chiannan of the Georgetown
University Center for Strategic
and International Studies on
Jan. 9.
(2Speculation about the direc-
torship of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation should be dis-
counted for the time being Mr.
Ziegler said. One newspaper
has reported that Acting Direc-
tor L. Patrick Gray will be
formally nominated, another
has said he would not be, and
a third has been in between,
Mr. Ziegler said. The fact is,
he continued, that no decision
has been made.
Another vacancy arose in
Washington today with the
resignation of John P. Olsson
after 20 months as deputy un-
der secretary of transportation
to return to private business.
Mr. Helma's new position
comes after 30 years in intelli-
gence work. After graduation
from Williams College, he be-
came a United Press corre-
Mr. Nixon last year, he is ex-
pected to take over at the C.I.A.
as soon as he is confirmed by
the Senate.
Both the Helms and Schles-
nger appointments had been
:orecast./
No successor was named to
:he A.E.C. chairmanship, which
\Ir. Schlesinger has held since
kugust, 1971. Before that he
lad been with the Office of
vlanagement and Budget, con-
::entrating on national security
and international affairs.
Cost Issue Noted
That experience, coupled with
the Administration's apparent
interest in the cost and redun-
dancy of intelligence programs,
led a close student of C.I.A. to
suggest today that what Mr.
Nixon now wanted was "more
cloak for the buck." ?
Details about "the agency,"
as the C.I.A. is known in the
Government, are classified. But
it is thought to have a budget
of more than $750-million a
year and more than 10,000
employes. Most are involved
in intelligence?technical as-
sessment, analysis and esti-
mates.
A "plans division" conducts
clandestine operations, such as
the abortive Bay of Pigs in-
vasion of Cuba in 1961. Mr.
Helms once directed this di-
vision, but not at the time of
the Cuban invasion.
His new assignment is to a
country whose leader was
strongly assisted, according to
wide belief, by a clandestine
C.I.A. operation ? in 1953. The
agency was reputed to have
had a role in the overthrow
of Mohammed Mossadegh, then
premier, permitting the Shah of
Iran to reassert his control.
If confirmed by the Senate,
Mr. Helms , will succeed Joseph
S. Farland, who has been Am-
bassador to Iran since May.
The White House said today
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1935 to 1937. Until 1942, when
he was commissioned as a Navy
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