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Army Secretary Stanley Resor insisted in one breath that "the Army will not and cannot condone unlawful acts of the kind" his uniformed subordinates had charged eight Green Berets in Viet Nam with committing: namely, the murder of a suspected double agent. Yet in the next moment he announced that the charges were dismissed. He placed the blame on the CIA for refusing to allow its agents to testify against the defendants. That seemed to imply that the CIA was a law unto itself. The White House at first aided that impression, claiming the President had taken no part...
...took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army's reputation is under enough attack because of the war, and vowed: "I will not see the Army denigrated and downgraded before the world." When Resor insisted that he must stand behind General Abrams and pursue the case, the two quarreled sharply...
...broken its customary silence since the arrests? Apparently out of pique at the Army. CIA men in Saigon reportedly asked General Abrams to explain publicly that the agency was not involved in the killing of Chuyen; Abrams refused. Then, in Washington, the agency turned to Army Secretary Stanley Resor, pleading at length to be let off the hook of complicity in Chuyen's death. Once more it got no satisfaction, so now it is leaking its case to the public...
...that review, Systems Analysis was often able to originate policy. Under Laird's table of organization, the three military services will get first crack at revising and refining the Joint Chiefs' plan. The new arrangement has the effect of increasing the responsibility of the three civilian service Secretaries, Stanley Resor of the Army, John Chafee of the Navy and Robert Seamans Jr. of the Air Force. Laird feels that McNamara cen- tralized too many functions in his own office and that responsibility should be spread more evenly throughout the department. One of Laird's biggest challenges is to make...
Besides recruiting the experienced Packard, Laird has kept on two key men: Secretary of the Army (since 1965) Stanley Resor and the Pentagon's research and engineering chief, Dr. John Foster, an extremely articulate scientist who has had the job for four years. When Laird wanted to provide a questioning Senator with technical data during last week's hearings, he turned either to Packard or Foster. Laird is hardly unsympathetic to the uniformed military Establishment, but he has laid down one ground rule for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Under McNamara, top generals and admirals often aired their...