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asks John Maury, the CIA'S former chief of Soviet operations. "The real problem is to get high-level penetrations of foreign power centers. Oleg Penkovsky (a top-ranking Moscow defector who supplied the U.S. with information on Soviet weaponry in the early 1960s) is worth a hundred Ph.D.s." But Penkovskys are not going to approach a porous...
While former NATO commander Alexander M. Haig Jr., Reagan's strong-willed secretary of state designate, is unlikely to settle for second place in any high-level policy struggles, some observers have come to view tension between State and NSC as a virtual inevitability, and the lineups taking shape indicate that at least some difference in outlook will persist...
...private life, was one of the reasons that Reagan had so much difficulty in filling several of his Cabinet seats. His transition team is having similar trouble finding people for the 2,700 top-and middle-level posts that are not covered by Civil Service. Says a Reagan staffer: "High-level officials are embarrassingly underpaid for the work that they do, and that has made it much harder for us to get some of the people that we want." The Carter Administration had the same difficulties. Says a member of the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries, which recently...
Feldstein was reportedly a leading candidate to chair the Council of Economic Advisers(CEA), a high-level White House position...
...outgoing Carter Administration looked back over more than a year of frustrated efforts to free the Americans, some of its members privately voiced hindsight regrets. One high-level insider now thinks that an early show of military force, along the lines of the belated airborne assault that ended in tragic failure, might have been a smart tactic. But Carter still argues that a hasty plan, which could have ended in the death of some or all of the hostages, would have been far worse than the prolonged imprisonment. Nor does Carter subscribe to the argument of some that in effect...