WASHINGTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605630004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 8, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNA'iONAL
8 May 1985
WASHINGTON
The Senate Intelligence Committee agreed Wednesday to the elevation of CIA
Director William Casey to Cabinet rank over the objections of a Republican
senator.
Sen. William Roth, R-Del., said the decision to raise Casey to Cabinet rank
was made while the panel was considering an intelligence authorization bill.
Roth, who heads the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said he also had
asked that the proposal be referred to that Committee
President Reagan already has given Casey Cabinet rank, Roth said, adding that
future presidents "may well do the same'' for his successors in the office.
''But Congress should not institutionalize such an action,'' he said in a
statement.
The Delaware Republican said he was opposed to Casey's elevation to Cabinet
rank ''on principle, not because Bill Casey holds the job at this time.'' The
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he said, is ''not really the
equivalent of a Cabinet secretary."
Roth said senators supporting the proposal had argued it was justified
because of the ''increased responsibilities'' of recent holders of the office
and their ' 'de facto status as peers of the secretaries of defense and state."
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