BENNETT URGED FOR REGAN JOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301270046-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: February 21, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK POST
ARTICLE APPEARED 21 February 1987
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INSIDE REPORT
Bennett urged
for Regan job
BY ROWLAND EVANS
AND ROBERT NOVAK
THE second-wave as-
sault against Donald T.
Regan has brought a
concerted push by the New
Right to replace him as
White House chief of staff
with Secretary of Education
William Bennett.
New Rightist Paul Wey-
rich has been boosting Ben-
nett, a neo-conservative for-
mer Democrat, as a chief of
staff who would give the ad-
ministration needed sub-
stance.
The right-wingers much
prefer Bennett to ex-Trans-
portation Secretary- Drew
Lewis, often mentioned as
Regan's successor. How-
ever, Regan has informed
his own staffers and Wey-
rich that he has no intention
of leaving.
0 .
EDWARD Bennett Wil-
liams was President Rea-
gan's real choice to head the
Central Intelligence Agency
after William J. Casey's
brain surgery, but the 66-
year-o1d, criminal lawyer
and Baltimore Orioles
owner reluctantly said no.
Reagan's secret offer to
the lifelong Democrat' and
member of the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advi-
sory Board shows he knew
that such a dramatic nomi-
nation might give his ad-
ministration the lift it des-
D7.1*Mr1'r7-1 Neverthe-
less, he ftnall, settled on
Deputy CIA Director Robert-
Gates, a career civil servant
and a prosaic choice.
DAVID Aaron, deputy to
Zbigniew Brzezinski on
President Carter's National
Security Council staff, went
to Moscow at the invitation
of Mikhail Gorbachev to at-
tend the propaganda ex-
travaganza billing the
Soviet Union as the world's
foremost advocate of peace.
Aaron accepted the Soviet
invitation along with Yoko
Ono, Norman Mailer and
hundreds of others from
American and European
peace blocs. Gorbachev off-
ered to pay all expenses for
the trip and hotel accom-
modations in Moscow to
hear his speech hailing the
Kremlin's contributions to
peace.
l3rzezinski himself said
nothing publicly. But close
friends say he was shocked
that his former deputy had
helped the Soviet leader
pressure President Reagan
to grant "peace" conces-
sions to the country that has
110,000 troops occupying Af-
ghanistan.
PRESSING national se-
curity adviser Frank Car-
lucci to support a hard-line
Republican amendment on
the pending Threshhold
Test Ban Treaty, Sen. Jesse
Helms (R-N.C.) not so gen-
tly reminded him about his
"friends" in the Carter ad-
ministration when Carlucci
was deputy CIA director.
"You know, Frank, I'm not
worried about Ronald Rea-
gan," Helms said with 20
Republican senators listen-
ing in at a Senate GOP
luncheon. "I'm worried
about some future president
? you know, one of the guys
in your old crowd."
Carlucci laughed, but the
jibe by the Senate's most
visible conservative de-
livered a pointed message.
Despite a loyal record as
deputy secretary of defense
early in the Reagan admin-
istration, Carlucci is under
constant scrutiny from the
Republican right.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/10: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301270046-6