WHO MIGHT STAFF A REAGAN ADMINISTRATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505080019-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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A l TICLK !1 'PBARED
ON PAGS lO
HMAM EVENTS
28 JUNE 1980
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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What-would a
Reagan Adminisfra- NSC, and Kissinger promptly did for - - - If-Reaee-
tion look like? Columnist' Buchanan . his subordinate what Khrushchevdid 1981, one ls .is sworn in in ven in, Januai
wrote this overview after a series of in- -for Malenkov-exiled him to the the housecleaning grog at to the understand the
l erviews' with the people ardund the NSC, `Star
bureaucratic counterpart of a power= -Defense and the CIA would-be instan
residential candidate.Buchanan takes and almost total.-
P station in Kazahkstan.`: -.:?;:..-~a look at people who would most likely With the exponential growth in con fi-
be..'Reagan s..- top economics. and. :.. ?'"
servative and
defense: advisers and the neo-conservative. think =-Ezpansive'-titles aside,- there. are.fiv
people who! tanks, with Republicans havinb. g held ex- slots on the White H ouse chart whbs
may well staff a Reagan White House
ecutive power.-for-eight of the-last.11 occupants enjoy a .special opportunit
years, Reagan-unlike Nixon who took-.: --to exert influence and wield power: t`
over after eight years` of Democratic: -national security adviser, the domes:
rule=would.have avast pool-of: sea- council chief, the press secretary;' th
" . For.the CIA, Dr. Richard Pipes, the I soned talents on which to draw. chief of staff-and. the assistant to th,
1
Harvard Kremlinologist, who headed Persons likely. - to appear at .-Su- President for congressional liaison.,
cial-l Cabinet Lservice secretary and,asstni
Phe`?3' partrf ThaE
clispttt~c# cif secresfnry"reves 2n lu a farther Arms W'Plat- sri~v3des theoee~rpants of the
CIA: conclusions. regarding, : Soviet
Control and offices their opportunity is that tact
military power, is a name that regularly: Disarmament Agency becomes a "line officer," with a large:
occurs in conversation - Director Fred 33c1e, and his deputy, personally chosen staff, whose position
John Lehman Jr.; Roger Fontaine the
For the National Security post, the Latin American specialist who was a requires constant communication anc
inside -track is given to.-P.ichard Y ` Reagan second ` during the tatter's contact with the Oval Office. In -the
Allen,cruef foreign policy-researcher ~ debate with William Buckley-on the White:-House, proximity is power.
writer in. the Nixon campaign of 1968 Panama "Canal treaties; Dr. - Glenn Right now it is difficult to project n
and the Reagan campaigns of 1976 and President _Rea
198U. ? Campbell of the Hoover Institution on gan's staff, .since. =the
War, Revolution and Peace; Laurence practice in most presidential . campaign.
Allen is strongly pressing theview._ Silberman, former acting attorney is a shakedown, after the primaries,
(shared by Dean Rusk) that the NSC: general and ex-ambassador to and a beefing up of the "issues side"
should be: diminished in size,-and re= Yugoslavia; William R
. Van Cleave, for the fall election.
duced in visibility; and the -NSC chief another member of Pipes' - "B" team But if Ronald Reagan were pressed to
should become a coordinator and traf-' who heads the Institute "for Interna- put together-his top White House staff,
fie control officer for policy recommen- tional Studies -at;" the University. of _ as of today, it would probably look like
dations from State, Defense and CIA,., Southern California; Professors mss: '? '' = ==~: r-;?
not.,a regular visitor on. "Meet the Richard Tucker of Johns Hopkins and National Security Adviser: As men-
Press,'.' nova globe-traveling luminary. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff of the- Fletcher tioned above, while this office would be
sighting AK-47s down the Khyber Pass: School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts scaled down from the Kissingcrian
If named to the NSC,-:Allen would University. heights of 1972, it would likely belong
push for re-establishment of thePresi From the. ranks. of recently retired to Richard Y Allen,-former Kissinger
dent's-. Foreign--Intelligence 'Advisory military, two are deputy, who hasassembled and is coos
Board,: and.' creation of an NSC Ad mentioned: those of former Army Gen: dinating the work on an imposing list:of
visoryCouncil, which would meet Daniel, 0. Graham, ..former director scores of Reagan foreign and defense
monthly ' and include " foreign :.and Defense Intelligence Agency, and Ed-.policy-advisers: ~- -..:-: -
defense policy specialists from the Ken-. ward Rowny who resigned as the Joint ; -`
nedy and Johnson as well as the Nixon", Chiefs' man at. the SALT talks -rather.
( Cs"D
and Ford administrations.:::.:= ::;..- than endorse the treaty that emerged..1
There is-' here,=,= incidentally;-?a If there is a common characteristic of
' delicious :irony. In'-1968, Allen::was all the above, it is that they are hard-
named Kissinger's .first: deputy, at,the headed realists about ultimate Soviet
ambitions and-. the present 7 ominous.
power equation, and if there will be an
'operative rule in selecting Reagan's na-
--tional security team, At .-will be that
'-Jackson Democrats are welcome as ad-
-visers and appointees-but: no
McGovernites need apply _- ; ... -
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