PRESIDENT NAMES FOUR TO INTELLIGENCE BOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504570013-0
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 7, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
7 November 1985
president names four
,to intelligence board
By James Morrison
and Ted Agres
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Ina major reshuffling of the,
anal, President Reagan appointed
four new members to fill QW-MUL
On the high- I evePresident's
Intelligence Advisory Board.
The new members are Jeane
Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. ambas-
sador to the United Nations; Albert
Wohistetter, a nuclear strategist;
Gen. Bernard Schriever, one of the
principal architects of the U.S. inter-
continental missile system, and
James Q. Wilson, a professor of gov-
ernment at Harvard University who
has served on various national crime
commissions.
Members of the board serve as
outside advisers on matters of -
ence and o is .
This wee c r. eagan dismissed
11 of the 21 members of the board,
which surprised some panel mem-
f ers and set off rumors that the
to House was eliminating Rea-
gan loyalists in favor of supporters
of Vice President George Bush.
Current and past board members,
as well as other informed sources,
said yesterday they were confident
this is not true.
Of the four new replacements,
two - Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mr.
Schriever - are political con-
servatives. The other two are de-
ssribed as "neoconservatives:' Such
Jeane Kirkpatrick
credentials belie rumors that the
changes were politically or ideologi-
cally motivated, a source close to the
board said.
Clare Boothe Luce, the former
U.S. ambassador to Italy and mem-
ber of the House of Representatives
from Connecticut and a current
member of the board, said rumors of
ideological or political motivations
behind the change are "perfect non-
sense:'
"There's no ideological question
or political question involved;' she
said. "There's never been any par-
tisanship or political considerations
on the board:'
A spokesman for Mr. Bush, as well
as some of those who were dis-
missed, said the rumors are false.
"I don't have any reason to believe
that was the case;' said retired Adm.
Thomas Moorer, former chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was
among those dismissed from the
panel.
Adm. Moorer, a conservative, said
the board members might have dis-
agreed over some issues but "I
couldn't say there was an ideological
split:'
The admiral, now a foreign policy
consultant, agreed that the board
had become too unwieldly. "It was
too big;' Adm. Moorer said. "I had
made that point myself:'
Along with Adm. Moorer, the
other board members who were dis-
missed are Martin Anderson, the
president's former domestic policy
adviser; Eugene V. Rostow, former
director of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; Gen. Robert
Barrow, former commandant of the
Marine Corps; Alan Greenspan, for-
mer chairman of the Council of Eco-
nomic Advisers; Peter O'Donnell, a
Republican fund raiser; Harrison
Schmitt, the former astronaut and
ex-senator from New Mexico; Paul
Seabury, a political science profes-
sor from the University of Califor-
nia; Robert Six, former chairman of
Continental Airlines; Edward Ben-
nett Williams, a Washington lawyer;
and Seymour Weiss, a former am-
bassador to the Bahamas.
The board is headed by Anne L.
Armstrong, a former ambassador to
Britain.
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