KENNEDY ACCEPTS KIRK RESIGNATION, TO NAME WRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400490023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 5, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Kennedy Accepts
Kirk Resignation,
CPYRGHT To Name Wright
rest ent Kennedy today ac-
crwed with "deep regret" the
resl=atinn of Admiral Alan
Kirk a!~ Ambassador to the Re-
p inlir of China.
Admiral Jernuld Wright, nowk
on the Board of Na "one] Esti-
mates. s senior advisory groups
in the Central Intelligence I
A;:rncv, is sxpected to be named
W. the President within they
next few days to succeed Ad-
miral Kirk in Formosa.
Pt es.s Secrrary Pierre Sal-
inert told reporters today that;
t.hr name of a new Ambassador
has brcn submitted to the Chi-
nPRr Nationalist governmenv
fat appioval.
4dnilr'nl Kirk, who was'
pt a iced by the President for the
"nutstandinc manner" in which]
he had performed his duties
since beinc named Ambassador
last year. wrote the President
that he was forced to resign
because doctors Informed him l
hi
di
l
s me
ca
condition would not
permit him to return to his
o
He is no
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states.
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