OUR MAN AT STATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600250007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 10, 1969
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

NEWS WEEK
A hint ,
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CLIA-R1091&00901R00
INTELLIGENCE:
,Our Man at State
Over the years, U.S. intelligence opera-
tions have often given the impression
-: that the cloak did not know what the
' dagger was doing. Within the vast, inter-
locking network of agencies that make up
what is known as the "intelligence cora:.
- f munity," intramural bickering and poor
7,
.{ But the- innovation that raised most
.!eyebrows in Washington was the appoint-
ment of Ray S. Cline, 51, a veteran CIA
.? ;officer, to head the Bureau of Intelli-
gence and Research in the Department
of State. The appointment, which re-
portedly originated in the White House
but had the approval of Secretary of
'State William Rogers, places a CIA hand
. in the sensitive State Department intel-
ligence post for the first time. The Ad-
ministration knew that hostile propagan-
dists would cite the appointment as living
proof that the State Department is real-
ly run by the CIA. But when Rogers set
out to replace the present head of the
intelligence section, Thomas L. Hughes
(who has been posted to London as
minister-counselor), lie was looking for:
professionalism that was available only
within the intelligence community itself..',
Rogers wasn't trying to turn the State ?;
Department into another spook house,"4
said one official. "But the intelligence 1 -
bureau was too much of a library and.
clipping service, and he felt that State '
needed sharper and more imaginative I --
work."
Invention: With Cline at the helm,..4
State is likely to get what it is looking for.
He holds an impressive set of credentials.;
Born in Anderson, Ill., and educated at:,
Harvard and Oxford universities, he first
came to Washington as a crypt-analyst '
1942 and has subsequently served as,j
chief of the national-estimates staff (the
key CIA group -that produces the famous
"country estimates" on which much of
U.S. foreign policy is based), chief of the
CIA's Sino-Soviet section, station chief of
, the huge China-watching complex in
Tai-
wan and, most recently, the CIA's man in
.Bonn. In the shake-up that followed the .
.Bay of Pigs in 1961, Cline became dep-
uty director for intelligence?one of the
four top deputy slots in the CIA. When
John McCone left the agency, Cline ;
came within a hair of becoming CIA di-
rector. Just before the CIA dispatched .
Cline to Bonn, he bluntly -told McGeorge.:
Bundy and other top Johnson aides that
. McCone's successor, Vice Adm. William.
Raborn, was ineffectual at his new job. A.
few months later, Raborn was replaced
by the current CIA chief, Richard Helms.-;; -
To every assignment, Cline brought ar-.
..intellectual bent seldom found in intelli- ?
gence operations. "The real invention of-,
modern intelligence organization," ?
said recently, "is the awareness hat it
. takes scholarship?that more is required
'than chasing fire trucks. I'm not a cloak-
and-dagger twirler. I want to explore
? evance in social science terms."
- Even for a man of Cline's expertise and
experience, the new post?which carries:
with it a seat on the U.S. Intelligence.
Board and the hush-hush 303 Committee -?
that rules on complex operations?will
have its pitfalls, "State wants me because '
they figure I'll monitor the CIA better,"
? says Cline, "and the agency's delightd Ait
-06002$0007.+1
J.Ii. IthrellInVer .11,J
Cline: 'Betwixt and between'
coordination have played a key role in
every major intelligence blunder?from
Francis Gary Power's wayward U-2 flight
to the Bay of Pigs. Now, however, the
Nixon Administration is moving quietly to
sort out the lines of communication.
Senior Administration officials reiect
words like "overhaul" and "shake-up' to
describe the changes in the intelligence
community. But the effect has been the
.same. Operating with a minimum of fuss,
the White House has given a new look to
the top echelon of intelligence personnel,
installing new chiefs at the supersecret
,National Security Agency (which con-
centrates on monitoring radio transmis-
,sions and breaking codes) and at the
Defense Intelligence Agency (which
evaluates information gathered by the
armed forces). Secretary of Defense Mel-
vin Laird now has a "Special Assistant for
Intelligence," Assistant Secretary Robert
F. Froehlke, who among other things con-
, trols all the budget strings of the Penta-
gon's manifold intelligence activities. On
top of all this, Mr. Nixon had Central
Intelligence Agency director Richard
Helms?a man of exceptionally high stand-
ing in the Administration?set .up a top-
level interagency committee to supervise
.?the intelligenReefin iumi.Pga
the over-all allaaip
0600250007-1
ljor .e
sort of .betwixt and
Approved For Release 206
GUEST COMMENTARY
The C]A And
he Graffi
0
?
git1310901R
A Strange Case Of raistaken identies?
By L. FLETCHER PROUTY
? SECRETARY OF THE ARMY Stanley '
R. Resor. has announced that he has
? dropped the charges against all eight
U.S. Army Special Forces "Green Beret"
soldiers in Vietnam.
, His statement has come as quite a
. surprise.
But not so long ago the Navy was
faced with the same problem, and it
quietly dropped charges threatened
against Commander Bucher and the
crew of the ill-fated spy ship PUEBLO.
There is a strong parallel that shows
Ni
C
i
whaAtt'strheealltylmaet iossf uethe PUEBLO inquiry
'''"'-i _ the Director of Central Intelligence an-
nounced in a letter to Senator Stuart
Symington (D-Mo) that the CIA was not
'involved in the PUEBLO affair. Sim-
L../tlarly, it has been reported, VAdm
William F. Raborn, former CIA Director
.and onetime Patriarch of the Polaris
submarine fleet, has said that CIA had
nothing to do with the Green Beret
!case. ?
1 Taken in limited and specific con-
text both of these statements are un-
questionably true. However, the '
PUEBLO?at the time of its capture? ??
was sailing under the operational con-
trol of another highly classified govern-
ment agency (not the CIA). As a result, .
the Navy was unable to press charges
'
4
1
iTh
- -----7---7w,.
, ? ....1`7"r! '7.P.1-.ry..?.?., NI . ... ,
- 4,-" .s.i ti ..?v .. ...4
I,-,?? 5?./1.' .: . o'.. t. ...':,?!!'''.4.4, ? ' ' ' i .?': ..',. A.
"i ,I, ? - ' , ?'.,... a/ Wo...' ;,,i
?
(..c.":""4-41;4. J; 46'. -e , -,c,;;-4,? fl'tk...',.;;1*.4..;;-..--......,..
-q P,' ? ' \--?
r ._,,,,,,..:,4,,, .., ? ? ., ,t. ,k
tg,,,A ..? j, ,- --?:?-a---.......,?";i :4-. ). .i. ? ..
4 ?.4.,,-.7 ... '"?"*.4?"'I'?.:?:::-''....74::..-71.1
?
?? t . '. ? ,,.......? .....: . L. ...;;I? ,Pc..1,0
? ? ... ...-. .. . ?
: .. ',M.!, 7 ???? ?? : ,,,..? ??????? .., ..,ZI? :::1?? ??? .;',-;..:.;
...., ... .. ' -- 1,?_.-'? ? '',....., .???:.....? ; - .,...,..? ,...;,,,,:,:l..
jf? ? -..:? - -: . ????? ? ???-;:t.:-;:.-.trs,....-4:212i''' 'A
CIVILIAN IRREGitcp.p.ralontlfser Rate
ben board a Chinook helicopter on mission
from 5th Special Forces Camp in Vietnam.
01 , ? .;
.000,???1" ? ??
against the PUEBLO Captain and crew
?not only because the PUEBLO was ,
not then under Navy control, but also
because so many of the crew were not
bona fide Navy personnel.
In Vietnam, the Green Berets of the
Special Forces were under the oper-
ational control of the CIA and, in spite
of Secretary Resor's protestation that
the CIA would not make witnesses
available in connection with the pending
trials, that may not be the real problem.
The Army is having to face up to the
fact that, since it had relinquished oper-
ational control of the Special Forces
involved, it no longer had legal grounds
for pressing formal military charges
against them. In brief, the CIA may not
have had anything to do with the
"case"?the alleged murder; but it was
involved, as it has been for years, with
the operational activities of that Special
Forces unit.
To the uninitiated, this may sound
like splitting hairs over an insignificant
point. But to those who have watched
the growth of Special Forces while their
activities came increasingly under the
operational control of CIA, it is a most
basic and crucial one. It may well turn
out, when more of the facts are un-
covered, that more then half of these
U. S. Army Special Forces soldiers were
not U. S. Army personnel at all. If a
number of these men were not in fact
bona fide officers and enlisted men of
the U. S. Army, it would be extremely
unlikely that any court, military and
civilian, would grant the Army the
authority to court martial and try them,
even under the circumstances which the
Army alleged to have taken place.
What it all boils down to is that five
of the "Green Berets" weren't.
Those men who are bona fide mili-
tary personnel will be reassigned: they
may, at a time and place of their own
choosing, remain on duty, or resign
from the Service to pursue other inter-
ests. Those who are not members of the
Army will also be reassigned (as if they
were real military men) to await the day
atilte2Q05#16baBgaielAiiRBR9elr4Q901
careers with the CIA (or whatever their
parent organization is).
? . ??? ? ? . ?
?
)00600250007-1
. . , ?;????
ILT JOHN B. SALTER, Psychological War-
fare Officer, Det A 236, checks .30 cal.
machine gun field of fire from a bunker at
Camn Rn Pruna
STAT
DU A& 111,./bl I I UL.1,..1Up1/16,111, In
the Green Beret case?this announce-
ment by Secretary Resor?still leaves
unsettled several major issues: one of
them of immediate importance to
MACV Commander General Creighton
Abrams in Vietnam. It is most likely
that, if the General and his staff had
known last July what they now know
about all of these men, they would have
taken other measures from the outset.
But one thing is certain. General
Abrams, unlike his predecessors, is not
going to accept the continuation of this
kind of a "cover-story" Army in his
Command. It's hard enough to maintain
the morale and spirit of a large fighting
force when it is actively and ener-*
getically engaged with the enemy; but
during a period of peace negotiations
and disengagement, maintenance of
morale and military effectiveness be-
comes an unenviable task. It's virtually
an impossible one when a large part of
the "command" turns out to work for
someone outside the system.
Already there have been cases of
near-mutiny and deep unrest in certain
units of General Abrams' command; the
unpopular and generally degrading
episode of this Green Beret affair will
not help matters. It is to be expected
that we shall see the departure of the
Special Forces units, as we now know
them, from South Vietnam. If General
Abrams'superiors feel as he does and
?back him up in the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the National Security Council, we
? may eventually see the Special Forces
(organized out of the Army (just as their
original counterpart forces were
dropped by the Air Force many years
ago).
This still leaves two important
matters to be settled in Washington.
Secretary Resor's statement ended the
trial in Vietnam before it started; but it
does not clear up the question of
responsibility for a brutal murder.
Either a murder was committed, or it
ROL10/40260QQ7anIcone is guilty, or he
is not. The facts have not changed
simply because the CIA decides that itE
Approved For ReleasNAA5//11061FMF91-0090
4 OCT 19&9
1R000600250007-1
6' di e Da ritrn
? Ray S. Cline, a 51-year-old
key. Central . Intelligence
Agency., official for many
years, was named yesterday to
head the .State Department's
.Bureau.of Intelligence and Re-
search as of Noy. 1.
I He succeeds Thomas L.
Hughes, who has gone to Lon-
don as No. 2 in the American
Embassy. .
This Is the first tithe a CIA
official has been named to the
post although it once was held
by an Army intelligence ex-
pert. The bureau, as State put
It yesterday, is the depart-
ment's "point of contact" with
all other government intelli-
l'gence agencies and Cline will
I be a member of the Board of
National Estimates.
It Cline in 1962-66 was chief of
:CIA's intelligence division. He
'left that job to become station
/ :chief in West Germany, his
current post, a few months be
Richard Helms, who then
,was his co-equal as head of the
operational division, was
-named the CIA director. r
At the time Cline was re-
ported to have asked for an
overseas assignment because,
for one reason, he found the
Vthen director, Adm. William P.
Raborn, difficult to work with.
; Both the State Department
and Cline himself reportedly
have worried lest the appoint-
ment appear to indicate a CIA
supremacy in the intelligence
field. The post is not subject
to senatorial confirmation al-
though it carries the rank of
an assistant secretary.
The announcement acknowl-
edged Cline's CIA connection
;by saying that since WO he
had been "associated with var.
liou U.S. government agen-
cies, including the CIA, herd
rand abroad."
Cline came to Washington
,
in 1962 from Taipei, Taiwan;
where he *as instrumental
the U-2 overflights of ,Red.
China. He is a close friend of:
Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalis-
simo .Chiang Kai-shek's . son
and expected successor. His;
CIA post there was disguisecb
as director ,of the U.S. Naval
Auxiliary Communications
Center.
A Ph.D. and Phi Beta Kappa-;
graduate of Harvard, where he, - -
also earned his bachelor's and
master's degrees, Cline ? has
the analytical turn of triln&
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers sees as needed in the
post. The announcement noted": .
that the bureau is "responsible
for rapid analysis ? of current:
information on events around
the world and for tran.smiSsion;
of this information to the Sec.!,
retary and chief policy mak-
ers" and is the "principaE
source of long-range forecasts;
and analysts of priareal, eco.;.
nomic 'and sociological trends'
throughout the world."
Cline studied history at Ox-
ford in 193940, was, a Navy.
crypto-analyst, in ' .104243,: -
headed the current intelli-
gence staff of the wartime: .
OSS in MI3-46 and is de.,
scribed as having worked in
the Army Historical Division:
In 104649, A native of Clark, ,
County, III., he is married to.
the former Marjorie WilSon'
and has two daughters... '
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901 R000600250007-1
Approved For ReleaslaM28 : CIA-RDP91-0090
CT 1969
Sinews f E
1R000600250007-1
STAT
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901
SAN r T r,G0 , CAL.
TRIBUNE
0:17 1 1969
12.1$726
Rab
STAT,
R000600250007-1
'Thinks J
Direct Role
By DICK FINN .
The former director of the ,
t ,Central Intelligence Agency .
...said last night he believed the
. CIA "was not directly in-
volved" in the death of a Viet-
namese civilian which re-
sulted in murder . charges
being brought?and . then
.::dropped?against six Special
' Forces officers.
.i ?? Speaking to the World Af-
fairs Council of San Diego
:County at El Cortez Hotel,
.).-Vice Adm. William F. Raborn
.,Jr., USN, ret., said he agreed
..:iwith the official position that
cross-examination at a trial
-might expose information
' "that would endanger the na-
...jr tional security."
1:' Director's Duties Explained
..
1 ..
Raborn explained the duties,'
' of the director of Central In-'
.. telligence, a post he accepted
'during the Johnson adminis-
tration, as 4'coordinator of all.
tli, intelligence activities of
United States , govern-
',:,Ment.". ' ? . ? ; . ,?? ? '. '
1t's not all 'cloak. and dag-.
ger; he said, ? Some of it Ii
not very exciting." .. ? ? ' ?
, , .. ,
.....f.i...z..,..,
The CIA's responsibility,
Raborn said, was to keep
America's leaders informed of
developments in foreign coun-
tries that might affect the
?United States.
'Often a Scapegoat'
He asserted much,of this in- .
formation was gathered
through academic studies, al-
? though he did mention the use
of "third country travelers,
? satellites and peripheral ra-
dar."
Raborn said the CIA w a s
often used as a scapegoat by
the "ultra liberal press" which '
was "using sensationalism to?
.sell newspapers."
? "The intelligence commu-
nity is the whipping boy," he
said, noting that the CIA "by
law has to remain secret and
, is a very convenient agency to
'blame."
Raborn returned to a post'as
'vice president of the Aerojet-
, General,Corp. of El Monte in
August; 1966, following 14*
months service with the CIA.:
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R000600250007,1
WICIITTA, KAN.
BEACON Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R00060025
E -sa(iab e61969
CIA involvement
Green Beret Accused, 18A
[ By ARNOLD LEWIS
;?., Ea ale Aerospace Writer ; Raborn expressed serious reservations 1
V.? about the concept of an all-volunteer .
. Involvement of the Cenl,ral Intelligencel military organization. '
i . ? ? PEOPLE GENERATING opposition to ..
enied on ere
"If anything, our intelligence structure
is tob small. I think it should be larger."
Agency (CIA) in the controversial Green;
' Beret inurdei case n Sout ie nom, ' the draft, he said, "don't like the draft,
strongly denied here Friday by Vice, don't want to fight for their country ani,1!,
Adm. William F. Raborn (Ret.), former ,
t..Lvag. someone else to do it for them." ?.,?''
;CIA director.
. "There is absolutely no truth that the :!
CIA was involved in this," the admiral
said at a Friday afternoon press
conference. He called such charges "red
? ,herring" on the part of those involved to ?
throw off some of their own
? responsibility.
Ra born was in Wichita to address the
'Aviation-Space Writers Association and
several other local aerospace-oriented
organizations Friday night on the
so-called "military-industrial complex." '
:4
EIGHT GREEN BERET officers and,.
Ikenlisted men, including the former Green 1! .
eret commander in Vietnam. have been
1.4,. charged with killing a suspected South.;
Vietnamese double agent. ?
c. Critics of the case have accused the!
CIA with ordering the assassination of
; the agent. .
Attacking critics of the CIA, Raborn,f
said during the press conference that "a;
L; lot of people talk about a lot of subjects 5?
4 about which they know nothing."
lz
-.... . ,
, The primary aim of the CIA, he said, is',
i . 1
le uncover the efforts of the Soviet i
? Union's intelligence activities and i
!I
4. expose them for what they are.
v
F. "IF YOU THINK we can continueto ,
exist without the CIA, I'm awfully afraid ;
1 ,
you're wrong." 1
.1
Reborn was director of the super-secret 1
.
U.S. intelligence arm in 1965 and 1966, 1
e :current furor c o n c e r n i n g
r following a long and distinguished naval'', 1.?, i
0,. I. !military purchasing can be laid.
career that, among other things, earned ?f? ? , to Secretary the policy of former Defense Robert McNamara of
e. him the title of "Father of the. Polaris - .
. .. ?
,., Missile." . 4 buying at the lowest price. ? .
t". ? .4 ? ',, "People (defense. contractors)
I He now is vice president and ernPralj '
were encouraged to cut things to
representative for the Aerojet-G6neral 4 i the bone and they came.in,v4th
Corp., Washington, D.C. . ' Lacreallstic bids. .... . ' ,?-' .,,.
On military spending, he said,
the nation has been consistently:
spending only 8 per cent of the:
gross national product for
defense, while the gross national;
product has continued to climb.
The Soviet threat is
increasing. We know that from
hard intelligence. But the mood
in Congress has never been to:
give the military a blank
r !
BABORN CHASTISED what
he defined as a "vociferous
minority" in Congress , on.
military spending.
"In the civilian sector, we
should not become too involved
in the executive and military
conduct of the war (in Vietnam)
when we do not have all the
facts."
Even with an end to the war,
the nation will continue to have:
a sizable military budget as long
as the threat from the;
Communist bloc continues to:
exist, he said.
DISPUTING THE t e r
"military-industrial complex,"
Raborn said ' he preferred'
Secretary of Defense Melvin,
?Laird's phrase, "arsenal for
democracy."
Reborn said much of the
: RABORN DESCRIBED 99 per cent of
'the CIA's activities as "good ,1
'churchgoing community efforts to help
. safeguard our very way of life."
f Only the remaining 1 per cent, or lesd
r-,:involves so-called "cloak and dagger"
activities, he said. '
"No, heavens no," he replied when
',asked if ho thought the nation's.'
intelligence machinery was becoming too '11
large and complicated to ?Mate ?1
:efficiently. Approved Formelease 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R000600250007-1
The military has done a
remarkably good job in buying
the things they need for combat.'?
We've fought half a dozen major:
'wars in memory and have come
off victorious,
"And we have left it to the
military, not a bunch of young
college grads who have never
shouldered a musket and whose
only task was to program a
computer," Reborn said.
"THEY SHOULD not have
that final decision. That's how
our country has remained free. I
shudder to think what will
happen with less than expert
guidance."
Raborn predicted that "Tho
Soviet space effort with a
military bent will come up with
some startling developments in
the near future that will cause
us to markedly increase our own
Military space efforts.
"We have nothing to
neutralize an orbiting nuclear
weapon. What do you think we
ought to be doing about that?"
The nation's military space
efforts to date have been
.rnlnLseule," he said.:.
ki..41.1.41kao viA6+0.44'..,4 40;4,
? --V^ y, V.- -
???????????.11..4.1*??????11.1?0-.
Approved For Releavigffil/Rii210-INNA1-00901R000
27 September 1969
5
El
D
in -.Beyibt
.00250007-1
re weseritative for the Aerojet-General
RABORN CHASTIsED 'what
By ARNOLD LEWIS
Eagle Aerospace Writer ;? Corp., Washington, D.C.
-; Involvement of the Central Intelligence !I - .RABORN DESCRIBED 99 per cent of.
, Agency t OA ) in the controversial Green the ClA's activities as " g o o d,
. Beret murder case in South Vietnam was 1:. churchgoing community efforts to help
..
?? , strongly denied here Friday by Vice II . safeguard our very way of life."
V Adm. \,'illiani F. Raborn (Ret.), former CIA director. ? 1* involves so-called "cloak and dagger"
Only the remaining 1 per cent, or less
"There is absolutely no truth that tileactivities, he said. .1
CI -1 was involved in this," the admiral I "No, heavens no," he replied when
asked if he thought the nation's
intelligence machinery was becoming too
large and complicated to operate
efficiently. ` ?
? ? "If anything. our intelligence structure
-- is too small. I think it should be larger."
, said at a Friday afternoon, press
conference. He called such charges "red
herring" on the part of those involved to
threw olf some of their own.,
responsibility.
R,`,1 born was in Wichita to address the `
Aviation-Space Writers Association and . Raborn expressed serious reservations
several othor local aerospace-oriented about the concept of an all-volunteer
organizations Friday night on the
so-called "military-industrial complex."
??. EIGHT GREEN BERET officers and
. ' enlisted men, including the former Green.
he defined as a "vociferous;
minority" in ? Congress onl
military spending.
'? "In the civilian sector, we
should not become too involved
in the executive and military
conduct of the war (in Vietnam)
when we do not have all the
facts." '
Even with an end to the war,
The nation will continue to have
a sizable military budget as long
?
as the threat' from the
Communist bloc continues to
exist, he said.
military organization.
.;
, PEOPLE GENERATING opposition to ?
the draft, he said, "don't like the draft,
don't want to fight for their country and i
Berct commander in Vietnam, have been;. want someone else to do it for them.".
charged
, .
charged with killing a suspected `South On militari-lipending, lie said'? 7
Vietnamese double agent. Ithe nation has been consistently
, Critics of the case have accused the Ispending only a per cent of the
; CIA with ordering the assassination of Igross national product for
; the agent. 'defense, while the gross national
? ? ? :product has continued to climb.
? Attacking critics of the CIA, Raborn ;
said during the press conference that "a ; The Soviet threat is;
inereasing We know that from' ,
hard intelligence. But the mood;
inICongress has never been to;
give the military a blank! ? '? ?'.'
DISPUTIVT ? THE t e-r in
"military-industrial complex,"
Raborn said be preferred ?
Secretary of Defense Melvin .
Laird's, phrase, "arsenal for ?
democracy."
Raborn said much of the .
current furor co neerning ?
military purchasing can be laid
to the policy of former Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara of
buying at the lowest price.
"People (defense contractors)
were encouraged to cut things to
the bone and they came in with
unrealistic bids.
4"rhe military has- ?done a
remarkably good job in buying
the things they need for combat.
We've fought half a dozen major
wars in memory and have come
off victorious.
"And we have left it to the
?
military, not a bunch of young
; college grads who have never
shouldered a musket and whose
only task was to program a
computer," Raborn said.
"THEY. SHOULD; not ' have ?
that final ? decision, -That's how'
our country has remained free. I;
shudder to . think what will,.
happen with less than ex`pert ;
guidance." '
Raborn predicted that 'rho ? -
Soviet space effort with a ? , -
military bent will come up with .
some startling developments in ,
the near future that will cause
us to markedly increase our own
military space efforts..
"We have n o 1.11 i n g to
neutralize an orbiting nuclear
weapon. What do you think we
ought to be doing about that?"
The nation's military ice !,
I . lot of people talk about a lot of subjects
about which th0, know nothing.",
;
I The primary aim of the CIA, he said, is
Union's intellig 5;?;
ence activities and ' ???','
; to uncover the efforts of the Soviet check."
f?.`M?i:111; j
? ; expose them for what they are. ,
,..:
; I.?
i "IF YOU THINK we can continue to
I exist without the CIA, I'm awfully afraid 1....
I you're wrong," ' .1
I Rahorn was director qf the super-secret
. ? ?
U.S. intelligence arm in 1965 and 1966, I
following a long and distinguished naval '
: career that, among other things,' earned ?
, him the title of "Father a the Polaris ?
i Missile. .. . . . '. ?
i ? ? u ..
? ' He now is vice president ' and general
......?,
?
-
Approved For Rele
Staff Photo e
efforts to date have been.
"miniscule " he said. ?
Aitt65A
?rm. _r
T .9,1 00901R000000250007-1
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R 00600250007-1
SAll 1 Tr', CAL.
TRI2'..;NE.
SEP 13 /969
E - 1 2 1 , 7 2 C)
, r
.CIA Story
' To Be Told
1 The Women's Association of
the World Affairs Council of
f. San Diego will host a bi- ?
,
?
i monthly series of dinners this'
i
1 season to honor outstanding
speakers presented- by ' the
- Council. . .
Mrs. Marion Longstreth is
!general chairman of the Worn-
en's Association and Mrs..
' Robert Letts Jones is in
' charge of arrangements.
' The events will open with a'
. dinner Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at ,
the El Cortez Hotel. Honored?
guest will be Vice Adm. Wil-
liam Raborn, USN (ret) who? 1
t'Will speak on "The CIA Story-';
. The Protector of Deraracy." i
Mrs. Carl Olson is dinner !
chairman. I
? Reservations may be made 1
'-'with professor Minos D. Gerk,I
!, erales, World Affairs Council. I
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R000600250007-1
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-0090
SAN f`P,10, CAL.
1SEP 8 1969
SEMI V;F:1-:LY 650
Foriner Hea
r ?
STAT
1R000600250007-1
'71
ens Lecture Sertes
SAN DIEGO--V/Adm. Wil-
liam F. ,R b o r n, Jr., U.S.
Navy (ret.), 64, will open a
fall season of monthly lee-
lures sponsored by the World
'Affairs Council of San Diego.
Raborn, director of the U.S.
Centrel Intelligence Agency
for 14 months, will speak
about the 'CIA Tuesday, Sept.
30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Cotil-
lion Room, El Cortez- Hotel.
Acro jet
He returned to a post as
vice president for Aerojet-
General Corporation of El
Monte, following service with
the 'CIA in August 196. He
; `makes his headquarters in the
company's Washington office.
Before President Johnson
named him to head the CIA,
Raborn had been with Aero jet for nearly two years as
1, vice president for program'
management. Preceding that,
he had headed up the Navy's
f' Polaris Fleet Ballistic Mis-
sile Program.
, . Polaris Pop
Itaborn, referred to as the
"Father of the Polaris," in-
troduced new management
techniques which led to the
establishment of the Polaris
-years ahead of schedule.
His, "get it done" phi1osophy4
permeated the Navy's speCial
projects group which he led
from its inception in Decem-
ber, 3955, until he was ap-
pointed deputy chief of Naval
operations for reseakch ,and
development in March, 1962.
His methods of technical-
cost planning, reporting and
program control have been
widely adopted for use in maj-
or government and industry
activities.
After 39 years of Naval
service, Raborn joined Aero-
jet as vice president on Sept.
1, 1963. He was graduated
from the Naval Academy in
1928, and was designated na-
val aviator in 1934.
His varied career included
duty on battleships, destroy4
crs, and aircraft carriers, as
well as research and developi
ment activity on guided. mis4
sties for the Bureau of Ord-
nance and Office of the Chief
of Naval Operations.
Medals
The Distinguished Servir,-,
Medal, the Silver Star Medal,
the Bronze Star Medal and
the Navy unit Commenda-
tion Ribbon are among his
many awards.
In 1961, he received ,the
Robert J. Collier trophy of
the National Aeronautic As-
sociation for ,his work with
Polaris.
Raborn was born in De-
catur, Tex., and went directly,
to the Naval Academy afterl
graduation from high school)
in Marlow, Okla.
The World Affairs Council
b.egins its second year of ac-
tivity under the leadership of
Col. Irving Salomon.
Minos D. Generales, profes-
sor of political science at San
Diego State, is executive di-
rector. The council is a com-
munity educational organiza-
tion with the purpose of dis,
cussing, contemporary prob-
lems. in international rela-
tions.:
Approved For Release 2005/11/28 : CIA-RDP91-00901R000600250007-1
ltv.D6 1.1y Coi_ttiart
Approved For Release A% a ? yfr-fDP91-00901R000600250007-1
Y
2.22:cpai's 0
I ? ?
?
Dy Marianne Moans .
0 WASHINGTON--The
House is losing confidence in Ccit;
tral Intelligence Agency Director
? 'Richard i 'elms, who is the coordi:-.
nator of all government cloak-and-,
ddggcr, activities and in theory the
President's, ,principal intelligence
: 'advisor. ' . ?
. "There's no doubt about it.
? Helms is really in the doghouse," a
high-ranking Administration offi-'
? cial revealed privately. ?
o derestimating oviet
Laird's thinking mi
?,1,1ored by the fact ib;
, embariassed him a
cried the'Administrat
? of the
Nevertheless his reaction in
the past few yiecks has been to ?
rely heavily upon the Penta-
ion's own' intelligence services
and virtually ignore the CIA.
, President Nixon, it appears,
is inclined to side with his Sec-
retary of , Defense against
Helms, who is a Johnson ap' - .
pointee and a career official in :
the CIA. ?-?.: . ? '
Indeed, ?a, dubious attitude '
in the white House toward CIA
evaluations may be a healthy ;
thing. Think how differently,
everything might have. turned,
out if President Johnsen had
rt not waged the War in Vietnam!
based upon CI A.estimates ofi
Viet Cong military 'and politi-
cal manpower.. which have.'?
pOved to be consistently too;
lowx.r.! ;
White House diSsitisfaction!
with Helms may not necessarP!
. ly lead to his forced deciarture.:
in the near futur,e: He'could:
. restore the President's faith hi.'
him with some. byilliant spy..
coup the world will never learn:
about.: ??, ? 7
.And it is not so easy to find .
'directors for the federal.spying ?
apparatus,: which is after all a:
'rather ., specialized.. f
;Remember. . President John-.
son's selection of Admiral Wil
ham Raborn to be CIA chicr?,;
? Raborn stayed,One.yeacancli .
. ,
'was. g total tlisastec:417i..4;;:i1-:,6.....%.
President Nixon's increasing
doubts about Helms have become
so evident the intelligence com-'
; munity hears that Helms will soon
; be eased out. CIA morale is sag-'''?
: ging steadily as officials observe
,heir director's diminishing influ-
'
ence. '
CIA reports are increasingly?.;t.
?, challenged at the White House with
. .i.
? ' .. .
- 1 skeptical qtleries such as, arc you, .., . ?
''Your. mission is this tapo.wii
really sure this isnt larded with ' ;.:.t.',,...
. ?
, . / sefi-dostruct' ? ...',
. . ..
'your .own opinion'?" The CIA ?was...,:,.; - 'As a result,' Laird was called I
. 1. not consulted by the President.be?q Ion the 'carpet by the Senate''
1 fore he made his decision'
visit....;.1 r?
-.i i...Ommittee, most of whose 1
' Rumania. (Indeed, Helms ,wotild :.! inlembers oppose.ABM and'
have counselled against it). .....:.A., - ?;',.." i who subjected him tO.a testy .;
: !
..:. five , fi-hour closed door ' scssion. ? ? N klehns-Laird Feud :''''' ????'?':,..!,
. - ' ? ;;::..1 !i Laird insisted that .1-1elms:ac.-E'i
White House s.kepticism 'was.] icompahihim to the confronta7
.:: i
apparently triggered by a sharp tion, bUt.afterward publicly'',
disagreement between Helms and...?" i retreated somewhat from his..,,.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laircl,...:.! I dramatic warning. Laird ack-'
.. over the Soviet missile threat......;?:, i nowledged that. the only' Soviet '
. , .Several months ago Laird tried to ..i'i first-strike wCapon had?a limit-:.;
.' ? win over opponents to the Presi-,'.I
i: ed capacity and purpose.
? . dent's proposed ABM system by 1,,. f., ; : ?? ? ..-
' .13u -, : .., ; ..?..i....,.:.
..., ,
' publicly warning that the Soviet ,c1.i.,..... , ClA Being Ignored t.:,
i ? Union was going for a first-strikc,:.:! i ; 'The Senators may haVe'pre-,.
i missile_tapability. ? . . ....I erred. Helms' evaluation, but .g.,
i This warning, however, contra-?.i I Laird 'remains 'convinced thatl
dicted Helmshad previ ousIY'
his own hawkish view is correct. I.
told the Senate Foreign Relations.?J and js_clangerously,,upls.j ,
. Committee in private session i? ?*.-,
" Helms had declared that he thought
, the Soviet Union was currently con-,-,
icentrating upon developing deferk:n.
? !1.1Ye rather OAP offensive eaPahilitYA
ApprOVed
Approved For Release 2005/11/
r., PI M
;y.dL wa
ti ,e srniti?d States' first major
debate ill the 1780s, Sen.
Nidelay of l'emisylvania cried
??cse, sews 1 iiS ;nine sell he win
NU011 \Val'oil hand."' Henry Knox,
Secretary of War under President
(rienrge Washington, did not get the. six-
fold increase ill manpower he wanted,
len in 17W hi` did pt`VS110de Congress to
ineiease his force from 886 officers and
men te 1,273. A year later, his anny
e;(iiipped and ready, Knox fulfilled Mac-
has prophecy by opening "offensive Op-
evittions- against the Indians of the West-
ern froillik?rs?with the approval of the
Col eress.
This epis,ale from the earliest days of
;la., nation's history illustrates the pro-
foundly ambivalent attitudes with which
Americans contemplate the military, its
powor, and its influence. And (Mee in 0
great, groat while, the nation joins in ssiscl nod socially progressive organwAtion... opposed a major weapons system sougid
clamorous debate in an effort to sort out "both senseless and irresponsible." War r?by a President in years. But as of last
:Is 'the opposition to Safeguard was
11.011
in143119P91-00901R0006002
"^".
stirred up by Nye. Questions raised in
m
Congress idio the excess costs involved
in a single military contract?for the C-5A
military transport?already have cast 0
cloud over the resignatimi of an Air Eiiree
Assistan R
t Seine InCh n
arles, ad
rtn
may well Ila the careerti of 01 at ay oter Ii-
ifficials and officers. Democratic Sen.
William Proxmire of Wo
iscnsin has called
for an investigation of sonic C-5A deal-
ings for "possible violations of crimiiial
Senate Minority Whip Edward
Kennedy, for his part, actually criticized
recent U.S. military operations in the A
Shan Valley of Vietnam, terming them
*Apparently Nt,ent; by this and other atta o
cks n dm
military, Col. William C. NVOtit11101"1.1:111(1, IOCOler
e m
pron Comitilder in \' mutt and now Army Chief of
Staff. dispatched a let or urging all Army men to pro
-
twat: a better iimutv for their branch of service. "Im-
age, wrote Westmoreland. "is defined as 'a mental
picture.' \Ve m d
ost o everything in our power to
JOSIITC thilt llW picture AllWriCOOS IlfiVe Of the
Arm ? is flint of a WilMIT?ail efficient, dynitmic.
dedi-
IDeinocrats, ce ?
ing from the war ill Vieti,n, and LIM
week called for ? an excess-profits tax to
eliminate it ((he measure has little
chance). Many snore crities eltarge that
Pentagon 'mu:mei:win procederes arc so
sloppy that the natimi wastes I oillioNS (if
(.1fAlarti 011 111111CCded weapons, arid that
the costs of nearly everything are simply
out of control.
In the Senate, all the siNpicions have
come together in an snipreeederited at-
tack on the Safeguard anti-ballistic-rnis-
,sile system and its Sprint and Spa' tan
Anissiles. President Nixon?as did Presi-
.dent Johnson before hini?strongly en-
dorsed the system and this spring asked
Congress for $6 billion to 87 billion to
;deploy Safeguard on a test basis around
two U.S. Minuteman missile sites in
North Dakota and Montana.
? Defeat? The Senate has not serieusly
its attitedes about these matters. Last
week, :or ila? first time since Sen. Gerald
Nye's :allied "merchants of death" in-
vesdea; Mil in the I930s, the country was
engaged in just such a great debate.
i uggernaut: At issue is the so-called
mi'" ?ry-inclitstrial complex, a term con-
siderabls less inflammatory than Nycs There is much more such ciiticise
vei?sial. Quite simply the MIC consists or come. Congressmen all over Capitol Hill ,slash several billions of dollars from other
1 . e ,,, Pet, In , , 1 its I are planning studies and hearings. This military-hardware appropriations.. 'it
inercnsets of death, but no less contro-,
the .tip.,%1W,Ir , chlagon, and network
meense :aippliers and research
: week, Senator Proxmire's subcommittee 'feels like 1929 must have felt to the
1'161' on economy in government will hold bear- , Wall Streeters," said a veteran defense
des tiii? together produce America's ? sy the Tt? ?Nr budget A I red' nil lobbyist. "A hard rain will fall before this
,irmeii 1.1iglin During the C01.11 Se of the Ines on ,ie?rn' 1 'n- ' nc ` m ' blows over."
cold seer it his ?Tow.) into In '
. , . , . , $80 billion- priorities,' teaturing, such critics of the
military Os economist John Kenneth Gal- Reasons for the Congressional assault
,..1-year juggernaut consuming a tenth of
ie nalion s giant-sized gross national braith and Senate Foreign
mitiee chairman J. William Fulbright.
go Relations Cern-. on the M1C this year .are not hard to
. find. For one thing, an anti-miliary po-
litical climate is abroad in the country.
Sloppy: One big issue in the debate is;
the sheer size of the MIC, which is now Successful student-faculty ilssaults oni
the nation's largest single activity. It em_ Reserve Officers Training Corps pro-
e
ploys one in every ten working Ameri-. g
cans, either in service with the militars/sastern colleges this year, and the re-
or with its more than 120,000 individual bellions mood is catching. But Congress
is also outraged .over the soaring costs
suppliers. They include hundreds of uni;
and technical problems of a whole list of
versifies where scientists do everything
current defense projects. The troubled
from basic research to the design inisP
manufacture of nuclear warheads. The
projects include the C-5A transport (ex-
MIC's funds purchase products ranging cess costs variously estimated at $382
slisiikg.)til$2(liillion) and .thcs Cheyenne
. from aircraft ($7 billion), ammunition? has npiceilarimeat hugs).
($2.9 billion) and ships ($898 million) ? pith, Leek
Lockheed'ss$'187?-: t I.e.. entac,