MCFARLANE DISPLAYS HIS POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301890051-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: August 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/25 :CIA-RDP90-009658000301890051-8
NEW YORK POST
ARTI^~.~ APrtAEO . 28 August 1985
OM PAG
McFarlane disp~ays
.his power
By R,OWi.AND EVANB ~ ROBEST NOVAK
s~o~ tenor Wblfo vlaw
and the. other m the ope4 oon-
ilrmed thed.. Robert Mc~1e?
ms's nstlanal se~sdty adad-
int bsipht~ the eompetttlos
to control poUoy foe' the cwn-
pel~vaN ~ Overrfd-
Inp tbt wishes of Defense
Secretary Cupar Weisber-
p; sad dsteass oeleeted Re-
pnblteasti swataea, 1+[o8'ar`
{area struck the name of ~b+s-
alew >3trsMnsW !k~ a sew
1~'he~p~bUc e~veat'. H~delty-
erla~ a hard-hittWt speech
about tM summit w test
wu not even availabN to the
ltcFarlaae
s~laMwed ~indepeadenoelhat
must dsriw from be1Mt in
Reasaa's fuU oontideace.
ThL conduct sus~ests it b
McFarlane more thaw Wein-
bee[er or Secretary of ewe
Georp Shults who has the
inside track with Prwideat
Reasaa oa national security.
McFarlane's relative hard-
line attitude toward the
Kremlin may put the admin-
btratbn to a political pos.
lure cheer to 's own
instincts than the pro-dstenta
views held inside the bu-
reaucracy.
The Brsesiaski incident.
while less impoetant. b eves
more rweallnt of the way
McFarlane operates.
He wu not share to
broaden the administration'.
aatioaat sacnrity policies
with strategic input from the
dynamic and imaslnative
Hrsesinaki. wh0 wu Presi-
dent Jbnmy Carter's na-
tional security adviser but
whON views are c1oa0 t0
k
~McBarb~ot's decision to
strike his asses from the
Fenta`w's list of eitperts.
embarrassed Weinbee`er.
and Repute sus- t~aiseter~Iio 1~nHo h~a mot
ton concerned that Reasaa's South Africa made a clearly
ody wW uaaceeptable requed to meet
widen stsbatet~wfecen Soviet withhiaP~rfeosoident Reasaa in
'T ty lUiad armed ~-eln~ the Whig Haw wweeeekkss~~a ~
to.iavite Hrsesinski to dt oa that a hiSh State Dept ots-
the new pass!. sad Welsher- ctal should instead ~o to
der qqu~ickly aireed. Viemu toe talks witi~ tM
ltcFarlaa~ in the past South AMcaa. Hut Shults
wonW haw felt eompeUed to pic kb McFarlane. who at
~o along. but sot eww. Hs i/fenaa became a maior
dropped Brsesinsld with no playas in tM South AMcaa
attempt to ~u.tify his action obis.
beyond an offhaM obesrva- Iasidt the White. flaw.
lion that it miSM make Rea- McFarbne's ascot has not
ttea look u thaKh be needed produced cheers from Dar
DemoCratlc help. aid Repay
McFarlane's ssK-contldent Instead of cultivating the
qualities were put on display new chief of slat!. McFarlane
in his toughly-worded Aus. aced tM traasiUon to stake
if wartfiu~ to the Soviet out a new independence for
himself and his staff.
UH~tried to torecloee U.S. Since then. swords-point
concessions by uyin~ that confrontations with Rs`aa
Provemeats" in U.B.-Soviet
nlatlona wa~ld be possible
without basic changes in the
Kremlin's policies.
VYhite House badders told
us the cal otricial who wu
aware li~CFasbne would
make the speech - much
less what he would say -
wu the vacationins Presi-
dent.
8hults has liven ao indica-
tion that M tears McFar-
lane's rise u Rea~aa's men-
tor. or eves resents the na-
tional security adviser dsUv-
esln~ a speech that should
haw been is the province of
the secretary of state.
M~ariane's quiet. even
stealthy proSression up the
power curve hu bees powi-
ble because so tar he hu not
been regarded u a menace
at the State Dept
psrlod have softened.
McFarlane has started a
deliberate. so tar successful.
campaign to aware policy
dominance over the State
Dept on preparations for the
Reasan-Gorbachev summit.
The prosression has been
lone'T wit7~Kit"f-Ted
a7 ea seem n` y m-- e
r a11~m
w wo w a
sum ar e c u-
)~ s . e a so u peen tree
ar o[ personal rumors -
unpeoved and. he hu sworn
to trfsnds, untrue.
Thin-11ppe~ and taciturn.
Had Mc)3'sriaae b not as ex?
Marine colonel who wears
hb heart on hL sleeve or
complains in public about
private srievances that his
friends say tear at his soul.
Wently. he has
ooatinued hb sk-w ascent with
every piece of evidence su~-
that he does so with
suppoR from hb bop as
they approach a dipbmstic
oootroeuation.
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/25 :CIA-RDP90-009658000301890051-8