ADM RABORN NAMES AS CIA HEAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100080067-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 1999
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: April 20, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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APR 2 ~ .1965
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. President Johnson has had a notable .record ~ in th*; heart of a matter. Knowledge of and
' f success in getting able men to serve in key ?? skill in the arts of diplomacy also arc impor-
"~ bsts of his administration: Rear Adm Wil- tant. And, as someone has pointed out, so is
am I''. Raborn, who has agreed to come out ? luck.
`~ f his retirement of 18 months to succeed-John' Anyway, the new, director of the agency has
McCone as director of the highly sensitive established a reputation as a man who can get
?? .nd vital Central Intelligence Agency, meets things done, and that is something that appeals
his standard. to the President. He is also said to believe
The admiral, who quite incidentally was born firmly in subordination of military to civilian
n Texas, is best known as the man largely authority. One of the criticisms directed
' 'esponsible for development of the NavY's Pa, against;the "super-spy" agency in the past has
' aris missile system, including the submarines .been that it sometimes has tended to make
hat carry these weapons. Before retirement,' policy on its-.own instead. of simply Supplying
the raw material for policy-making.
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was deputy chief of navall operations
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escarch. He displayed his administrative and ~ There is every reason to believe that th
`. anagerial talents in this position. President has chosen a good man for this ve
?: important post, , .; . !. ,..
' I1IS STItONG~ST qualification for his new,;'
` joli may have been stated by another retirea
admiral who said: "Red's the kind of guy who
won't be distracted by nonessential details ...
` ile can really cut through the fag." -
Fog is something whicYi an agency like the
' CIA, perhaps necessarily, has a superabun-'
clancc of. Yet the held of this agency must ; I
:;upp'.y facts and make evaluations upon which
the President must base decisions in critical
:defense and foreign policy matters.
?? No decisign can be any better or~any sounder :' '
than the information and judgments on which .
,~t is .based., The head of the agency must be
-a. rnan upon whom the President can lean
heavily and' with confidence. ,
IN T11N iC1~T1RS1J of its operations, many of
.which are highly secret and involve espionage,
the agency ccllects a tremendous mass of fac-
`tual information, and it is necessary that the'
''director not only be a rnan who can manage ',
these far-flung operations but pne with an in-:~,
cisive mind so that he can cut through all the
:-mass of incidental, or irrelevant detail'and get
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