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...embattled agency, one that must learn to cope with greater congressional scrutiny and with increased demands from press and public for information about it. How should he deal with these problems? TIME asked five former CIA directors what advice they might have for the new man. Three responded-John McCone, 75, William Colby, 53, and George Bush, 52. Richard Helms, 63, thought it was inadvisable to speak for the record. James Schlesinger, 48, was too absorbed with energy problems as part of the new Carter Administration...
...McCone feels that the director must "establish precisely how the President wants to be informed and how he wants to exercise sanctions over CIA operations. Once that is established, the director must not deviate from the rules that are laid down. He must do exactly the same with the appropriate groups in the Senate and House. He has to establish a rapport so that they will have confidence they are being told the whole story and told in advance. Then it would no longer be necessary for other committees to be informed, and they would respect the fact that matters...
...custom permitted the most sensitive matters to be presented to the highest levels of the Government with the least clarity." There was also the danger of "floating authorization." Thus Richard Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1973, testified that as deputy director he had not informed incoming Director John McCone (1961-65) about the use of Mafia characters in the Castro plots. As Helms told the committee, Allen Dulles, McCone's predecessor, had approved the plan and further authorization was unnecessary...
...which grew to have 100 employees and a $30-million-a-year budget. In 1963, Marks reported, Vekemans boasted to Father James Vizzard, now Washington lobbyist for the United Farm Workers, of getting money from the CIA. After a meeting with President Kennedy and CIA Director John McCone, Vekemans had dinner with Vizzard in Washington and said with a grin: "I got $10 million-$5 million overt and $5 million covert." The first half was from the Agency for International Development, he explained, and the second half was from the CIA, largely to help Eduardo Frei beat Marxist Salvador Allende...
When the memo was hand-carried to McCone, he hit the roof. He telephoned the Pentagon and demanded that the memo be withdrawn at once. That was done, but a copy, with the objectionable terms blanked out, somehow survives, and was the object of much speculation among the Rockefeller and Senate panels. Two months after the August meeting, the Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba. In the turmoil, Harvey's executive action and the Mafia connection all disappeared into the void, never to be revived...