REAGAN FOREIGN POLICY STAFF, DIRECTIONS STILL FAR FROM CLEAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420017-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 11, 1980
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AF. ICLE THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
ON, FAG2-_ _-J. 11 December 1980
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-. Chinar special mission for Klssinger?:.
By Daniel Soatherland i s it General -Haig is - named .. secretary of
Foreign policy difYereiices persist in the gic importance'-of Israel to the West. But
Reagan camp and will only be resolved once some Democratic US senators. have ques-
tha?President-electchooses his secretary of tioned whether- General Haig could be con-
firmed firmed by the Senate because of allegations
L;; Tbls is the word from several of Governor. that ' he :abused-power while in:` the White
Reagan's foreign policy advisers who further House during the Watergate affair. Members
say that Gen. Alexander M..-Haig Jr. (USA, of the Reagan' transition teams assert; how-
ret.), the former NATO commander, Is still a ever, that he would be overwhelmingly-
leading candidate for the job of secretary of
, 3: -t "Richard'Allea, considered the most likely
Tbene advisers also saythatformer Secre- choice for national security adviser in.
an- 11 of State Henry. A -Kissinger is likely _to other friend of the Israelis. He recently autho
asvgnment frorri Reagan, possibly as sized Sol Linowitz; the current US envoy get.aa for
special envoy for Middle. East negotiations. Middle East negotiation, to tell the leaders of
Despite controversy- over- his-.financial af- Egypt and Israel that President-electReagan
fairs,-:Reagan s chief!.-foreign Policy aide, .would depart from the Camp David-frame-
Richard Allen, is seen as.likely to become the work for peace only if it was with their agree-4
White House assistant for national security in ment
the new administration K -Mr. Allen's appointment to high position
'Dttferenees- among-Reagan advisers are had earlier been cast in doubt by published
most notable in the, key area of Middle East reports that alleged he had used- an. official
pobcy But some differences also seem to per- position in the Nixon administrati on to obtain .
sistwfthregard'topolicy;towardChina- _ --Japanese business contracts. President-elect
aaember of the State Departtnenttransi Reagan later said one of his advisers had ex
tion team preparing for-the changeover said- amined Allen's record and found the aliega-
bons to be without substance -t L" {
there was a considerable degree of consensus
amoW, tbe: President-elect's : foreign policy One of Reagan's foreign policyp