C.I.A. HEAD NAMES ESPIONAGE CHIEF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210021-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 1, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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C.I.A. HEAD 1,,AYIES
ESPIONAGE CHIEF
Colby Becomes Director of
Clandestine Operations
By SEYMOUR M. IIERSII ?
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28?
James R. Schlesinger, the new
director of Central Intelligence,
has named William E. Colby,
former head of the American
pacification program in South
Vietnam and a long-time intel-
ligence operative, as director of
clandestine operations.
Knowledgeable sources re-
ported today that Mr. Colby, 53
years old, assumed his new
top-level job this week. Formal-
ly known inside the agency as
the deputy director of plans.
Mr. Colby will be in charge of
all C.I.A. espionage activities
and covert operations, widely
known in Washington as the
"department of dirty tricks."
Mr. Colby's previous position,
executive director of the agency,
a post combining the functions
of the inspector general and
controller, has ben abolished by
Mr. Schlesinger, the sources
said, as part of his revamping
of the agency.
Two Generals Chosen
It was also disclosed that Mr.
Schlesinger -has chosen two
highly regarded major generals
for his new Intelligence Re-
source Advisory Committee.
Through this committee Mr.
Schlesinger is expected to seize
over-all bureaucratic and finan-
cial control of the United States
intelliegnce community, which
is estimate to spend $6-billion
annually.
Through this' committee Mr.
Schlesinger is expected to-take
over bureaucratic and financial
control of the United States in-
telligence community, which is
estimated to spend $6-billion'
annually..__.
. The gene-Fits selected. for the
committee are Maj. Gen. Daniel
0. Graham of the Army,, who
is? director of estimates for the
Defense Intelligence Agency,
and Maj. Gen. Lew Allen of the
Air Force,. deputy commander
for satellite programs.
General Graham, whose pro-
motion to major general be-
comes official tomorrow, has
been a sharp critic of the
C.I.A.'s Office of National Esti-
mates, one of the top intelli-
gence review groups in the
nation.
Many?Are?Alarmed
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many Are Alarmed
His appointment has alarmed
many imellience officials, who
view it as the beginning of an
attack on what some have
celled a liberal bias in the
agency's intelligence estimates.
In a recent syndicated column,
for example, Joseph Alsop criti-
cized what he called the "spe-
cial historical bias" of the
analysts under the leadership
of the former Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence, Richard M.
Helms, who was named Am-
bassador to Iran last January.
Mr. Alsop's column then went
on to note that Mr. Schlesinger
"is even bringing in from the
Defense Department the most
pungent and persistent critic of
the C.I.A.'s estimating-analyz-
ing hierarchy."-.
"This detested figure is, in
fact, to be named the new head
of the hierarchy, unless present
plans arc changed," the column
said.
Intelligence sources said that
the unidentified critic of the
agency mentioned in Mr. Al-
sop's column was General Gra-
ham, who became well known
to officials in the agency after
serving a tour with it as a
colonel.
Another Appointment
It could not be learned
whether General Graham will
be named head of Mr. Schles-
inger's Intelligence Resource
Advisory Committee, although
official sources inside the C.I.A.
did confirm that he and General
Allen would be joining the di-
rector's staff. Agency assign-
ments have never been publicly
announced by the GoVernment.
Another member of that
staff, it was disclosed, will be
Dr. Jack Martin, who until early
this year was serving with the
White House's Office of Science
and Technology.
The sources said that the in-
telligence committee had re-
placed the C.I.A.'s National In-
telligence Program Evaluation
staff, which was headed by
Bronson Tweedy and Thomas
Parrott, two key aides to Mr.
Helms who, The New York
Times reported last week, were
ordered to retire by Mr. Schles-
inger.
The Times also reported that
Thomas H. Karamessines, Mr.
Colby's predecessor as director
of the clandestine services, had
been ordered to retire by Mr.
Schlesinger. Agency officials
disputed that account today and
said that Mr. Karamessines had
in fact requested ? retirement
last year but had been asked
to.stay.on. ? ? ?
Mr. Karamessines has been
in ill health for some time.
The appointment of Mr.
Colby, a Princeton graduate
who 'began his intelligence ca-
reer with the Office of Strategic
Services in World War II, was
more favorably received by
many senior intelligence offi-
cials.
"He's the classic old espion-
age type," one intelligence
analyst said of Mr. Colby. "The
kind of guy who never attracts
attention."
Other sources questioned
whether Mr. Schlesinger's ap-
pointment of Mr. Colby would
lead to a widely expected
shake-up of the clandestine
services, which attained notori-
ety in 1967 with the disclosure
that it. was secretly subsidizing
the National . Student Associa-
tion.
New York Times
1 March 1973
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