Rowland Evans and Robert Novak

sternation and EverVif the charges against AngletOn's elide= Neither President Ford nOr• from the New York Times caused eon-

intelligence chief James Angleton the retary tattoo.

use of CIA's counterintelligence . sec. the slightest role. the highest levels of the Ford admials ouster' could further. sorrodej-moraie'i i*Olications'of Colby's quick decision. top Angleton aides tiho'quit in:protest

Moment Angleton came under fire

on the Central Intelligence Agency at • mation. Director William Colby to iikeiounter- eminent circles Outside the CIA at the inside the embattled CIA. Tim three Colby and CIA Morale

worried by the potential disaster to to his sacking provide -tangible confir-

age to policymaking if the CIA's men ouster of Angleton was strictly hlipcie lic demands for blood.

believe they will be sacrificed to pub-

U.S. Intelligence capability and dam-

suspicious Angleton may have commit-

ted, his summary dismissal. even be-

rezywnccurate, the fear Angleton's

on for internal security purposes

Contrary to rumors, Colby's abitiat . The instantaneous decision,of CIA

Indeed, there was shock in high, gem;

President Ford's high caninland

Whatever sin the secretive, super-

of State Henry Kissinger played

worry

about its imilact

•

. , '

Sec-

fore judicious investigation of the

such a climate of fear inside CIA.

spiUing 01 !Was"

for grails by the media.: If they see a "every secret in the agency--may: be up

tion official outside the CIA told us, charges' against him may create just bias on the President's b/ue-ribbon 'umping ship," one commission to investigate' the agency. save.their own skins by quitting and

tive mold to reassure the CIA that no witcilkunt. coming,, , they may want /o nounCed conservative establishment Ronald Reagan, a member of the blue-

and expense allowances for the staff It was deliberately set in a conserve. ington. As the favorite campaigner for

ribbon panel, was typidalljr the very

he wants to bring with him to Wash- first to submit a request for full travel

bugeyed.

conservative Republicans, Reagan's

be filled by two senior Rockefeller - entourage consistently left his hosts travel bills for himself and his large

has his way, the two top staff jobs on

the. President's Domestic Council will

itchhunt is in Store.

That

A footnote: Former California Gov.

If Vice President Nelson Rockefeller

If those boys get scared and start

partially explaint the pro-

high adroinistra-

- tugs of the Domestic Council. Instead,

have a large voice in staffing the

But in view of repeated high-level indi- aides during his last term as governor of New York: James Cannon, his agent ard L. Dunham, state budget director..

by -lameduck OMB Director Roy Ash. man of the: Domestic Conseil would tends to' limit the Office hf Manage-

pervasive control over poll y built up

ing 'director council, Mr, Ford Is expected to go portance because the President in-

ment and Budget (OMB), under incom- and lobbyist in Washington, and Rich- budget matters. That- would end the

cations could emerge with power over domes- If Mr. Ford sticks to that, Rockefeller power over foreign policy as head of tic 'policy as head of the Domestic

the National Security Council.

Council equal to Henry Kissinger's White House wariness over Rockefel-

chairman of the Domestic Council. The

early draft of the forthcoming execu.

change, which may foreboole a certain

the tive order making Rockefeller vice

ler's potential power, wakld prevent one strategic change in

The Domestic Council 'rises in im- President. Ford has not yet said yes.

Presidential aides, 'however, made

Vice President from calling meet-

that Rockefeller as vice chair-

James Lynn, , strictly to

Rockefeller's

would like

plead only the:President can call the council into session., CIO added his formerly ieVOrite

will export American jobs abkoad: would. seta, to the lengthening list of bread- can, Sen. Hulbert Humphrey of Minne- fore the public. Senate debate the measure'' n full so. and-butter Democratic liberals he president George Meany of: the AFL-, preordained, - -quickly passed. When and defeat the trade hill,.paid a per- that opPonents could get 'their case be-'

grievance list. debate was circulated and the tion calling fOr an inunediate' end to sonal ilia to Humphrey Dee: 10 tb

siastically promoted for- the Demi- the bill, -but he asked him to let the Senate floor, however, a cloture• peti- signed the cloture petition, he was fu-

was added to Meany's lengthening

rious. -Hubert. Humphrey, the darling Mean)

cratic presidential nomination

of organized labor when he was enthii-

Just

Meany, vainly trying to,

Meany knew, Humphrey Shortly after the bill reached. the -

his ease

discovered that ,Humphrey had

before

o WM Yield nntatorises. Inc

take into the woodshed.

against the bill that it

Cbristnias,. crusty old

Humphrey said

urn tize tide

supported

1968,

'as he