SENATORS WANT ROLE IN CHOOSING NEW CIA DEPUTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100550019-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 24, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHINGTBN CRP) - SENATORS, ONE OF THEN FEARING THAT 'THE FOXES ARE
NOW GUARDING THE CHICKEN HOUSE AT THE CIAS'S WANT PRESIDENT REAGAN TO
CONSULT WITH THEN BEFORE NAMING A HEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR AT THE
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,
24 April 1982
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;SENATORS RANT ROLE IN CHOOSING NEW CIO DEPUT
;BY PSI CHREL J. SNIFFEN
;RSSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
''THIS 15 A WATERSHED EVENTS NOT SIMPLY A RESIGNATIONS A REPLACEMENT
AND LIFE GOES ONO' SEN. RICHARD LUGAR, R-IND., SAID FRIDAY OF ROM.
BOBBY R. INMAN'; RESIGNATION EARLIER THIS WEEK AS THE CIA's No. 2
OFFICIAL.
LUGARS ONE OF REAGAN'S MOST LOYAL CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORTERS AND A
MEMBER OF THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES SUMMONED REPORTERS TO HIS
OFFICE FRIDAY FOR A RARE PUBLIC STATEMENT ON INTELLIGENCE POLICY.
REFLECTING CONCERN THROUGHOUT THE COMMITTEE ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP OF
THE CIR UNDER DIRECTOR WILLIAM J. CASEY, LUGAR SAID MEMBERS OF THE
SENATE PANEL "SHOULD BE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE SELECTION PROCESS;!
BEFORE THE NAMES OF POTENTIAL SUCCESSORS TO INMAN EMERGE IN PUBLIC.
"I'M FRANKLY TRYING TO ENGENDER A DIALOGUE AND SEND SOME SIGNALS"
TO THE WHITE HOUSES LUGAR SAID. "THIS IS A TRAUMATIC OCCASIONS AND I
SAY THAT ADVISEDLY. "
CASEY'S MANAGEMENT OF THE CIA AND HIS PAST BUSINESS PRACTICES WERE
INVESTIGATED BY THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE LAST YEARS WHEN SEVERAL
SENATORS CALLED FOR HIS RESIGNATION.
THE COMMITTEE ULTIMATELY GAVE CASEY THE TEPID ENDORSEMENT THAT HE
HAS "NOT UNFIT TD,SERVE'S IN THE POST.
?'HRNY OF US VOTED FOR CASEY AND INMAN AS A PACKAGES" LUGAR SAID.
'.'CASEY WAS IMPORTANT TO THE PRESIDENTS HMO HAD ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE IN
HIM. INMAN HAS BEEN OUR MAN IN A RAY."
HE.SPECIFICALLY SAID THE CONSULTATION SHOULD TAKE PLACE BEFORE
REAGAN FORMALLY SENDS THE SENATE A NOMINEE TO SUCCEED INMAN.
"LUGAR IS ABSOLUTELY DEAD RIGHTS" SAID SEN. JOSEPH BIDENS D-DEL.:
ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE' COMMITTEE. I'THEY BETTER GET HIS MESSAGES
BECAUSE WITH INMAN GONE; THE FOXES ARE NOW GUARDING THE CHICKEN HOUSE
AT THE CIR."
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