Career Civil Servant Gets Control of Security: Office Revamped over File Searches

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The White House yesterday put a career executive-branch investigator in charge of all of its security operations to quell the furor over two aides' improper search of FBI background files on 408 officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations.

White House Chief of Staff Leon E. Panetta announced the appointment of Charles C. Easley as head of the new Executive Office of the President security office, just before congressional hearings on the file search began.

The White House personnel security office, which was led by Craig Livingstone, will be folded into the new office.

Mr. Livingstone is on administrative leave, drawing his salary of $57,500 per …