DEADLINE SET FOR KENNEDY RESIGNATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303200025-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 4, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/29 :CIA-RDP90-005528000303200025-8
Deadline Set
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Now-,0~" Be Fired=
. By BENJA1riIl+l SHORE '~ ',~
WASHINGTON ~= Presi:dent
Reagan will fire_U.S. Attorney Wit=
Liam H: Kennedy of San Diego "with-:
in a matter of days" if Kennedy con-~
times his- refusal to resign;: a high= ;
ranking White House official saidi
yesterday... :,-, ,,~ .~~; ~', . -;'
"His silence will not be tolerated
past the weekend,".;the official said
of Kennedy.-:The attorney was not
available for comment;. but has been:
quoted by an.associate assaying he;
will refuse the Justi~ce:Department
request to resign because be publicly.
confirmed . the . ~ identity ~ of a ;CIA
source.. , . -.._a,`t;,: ::~. - _ ~ ,,;':., , ,.
Attorney ~General~ William wench-
'Smith. decided Wednesday that. Kena
nedy, 51, should be ,removed: from
office for having.publicl}:confirnaed
'a San. Diego Union. story that ~ rep
`vealed .the=.CIA.; blocked.: Rennedy's:
'prosecution:;.of the .inte113gence.
source,l~liguel,Nassar. Haro: Nassar;
:former chief of bieaico's nationaFpo
;lice,- the .Directorate of Federal Se=
~curit}~; has been linked to an $8 mil=
lion: Southern._California .stolen-car
:case. , -~. ~.:~. .x-.:u...
SAN DIEGO UNION
4 April 1982
As Kennedy has continued in his
refusal to resign, support for the em-
battled prosecutor has grown in San
Diego where Mayor Wilson and Po-
lice Chief Bill Kolender have con-
tacted admitistration officials on his
behalf... ~ -:k : ,.
''The.; .White ~ House official, who
`asked- not to be identifiedR: said: "I
can_'t.see;the ad.-ninistration backing
off arid~not, supporting the attorney
generai~ Obviously, if we're going to
move?we .should move before the
ball-gets too big.'':. ?;~ .:~;
?'Tbat's; too bad," .Kolender ,said
~ye$terday~ when Gold