WILLIAM BUNDY TO HEAD FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOURNAL]

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100540012-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 8, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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William I'. Bundy, former as .
sistant secretary of state for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
N7111 be the next editor of the
p est.igious . quarterly Foreign
Affairs.
>;undy, who will assume the
post. in the fall of 1972, said in a
tclepl;olle int.; r,ie,v that he
plans lio changes in format in
the quarterly, publishel in New
York by the Council on Foreign.
Relations. .
As editor, he will succeed
Hamilton Fish Arnlstron , who
has held the post for 45 years.
What made. Bundy doclde to
join the quarterly?
"Nell, I've been in this field
since 1951. I think I can present
important and responsible views
on the sub]ect," he said.
Bundy. who was an architect
he was at tilt "fate Department) lie said he dislikes reports
from 1931 to 1959, is now a sen-
ior research associate at Massa-
chusetts Institute of echnology.~
Working on Boole
lie said he is hard at work on
book about U.S. involvement
in Vietnam which he described
as a dispassionate history.
. "I '.plan to tell the story as
honestly and fully as it can be
told, It will be more of a 11istory
than a personal reminiscence,"
he said.
that he has bccomo more dovish
on V.ietilanl. '
"I di like ornithological labels.
The issues are too complex fore
this kind of labeling," Euruly
said in the intervie.v from his
home at Cambridge, Mass.
He said he tuts' al%cays felt that
America inu9t disengage- itself
remove. . its presence from
Vietnam."
America failed to learn from
the French failure in Indochina,
he said.
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