6 MARCH VISIT TO HEADQUARTERS OF ROD MCDANIEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R000800990038-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: February 26, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

_-... ___... _7 I Executive Registry
26 February 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
FROM: Executive Secretary
SUBJECT: 6 March Visit to Headquarters of Rod McDaniel
1. Rod McDaniel, recently retired from the Navy, is the newly
appointed Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs and Director of the White House's Crisis Management Center. He
is, in fact, Richard Beal's replacement at the White House. Bob Kimmitt
has advised that Rod's brief includes: overall responsibility for White
House "Operations Center" activities (to include the Situation Room as
well as the CMF); support for the national security apparatus (West Wing
and NSC Staff) in all crisis, and crisis-related, situations; and,
presumably, general support for McFarlane and Poindexter on national
security matters. Kimmitt put Rod's job in this perspective: whereas
Beal primarily concerned himself with getting something started, Rod is
to make it work.
2. Following his get-acquainted calls on people at the White House
and the NSC Staff, Kimmitt thought it would be a good idea for Rod to
touch base with us here re what we do, how we lash up to the White House
and, generally, to get aquainted. To that end, the following schedule
has been put together:
Wednesday, 6 March
0900
Agency Overview
0945
Call on DDCI
1000
M i na r C IA Gunn rt to CMF i n room 7F16
1115
Call on Dick Kerr
3. Some background on McDaniel. A 1956 graduate of Stanford
University, he began a (surface ine) career in the Navy via OCS in
1957. Culminating his sea tours in cruisers and destroyers, he had two
commands: a guided missile destroyer, and the cruiser USS Oklahoma
City. His last sea assignment was as Chief of Staff, US Seventh Fleet.
Approved For Release 2009/10/05: CIA-RDP87M00539R000800990038-2
 Approved For Release 2009/10/05: CIA-RDP87M00539R000800990038-2
CONFIDENTIALI
Most of his Washington tours involved Navy program planning, Navy and OSD
systems anal si s
Distribution:
C/CP AS/DI
DD/CPAS/DI
CRES/DI
/OCR/DI
Approved For Release 2009/10/05: CIA-RDP87M00539R000800990038-2