HALLOWEEN MASSACRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05S00620R000200470058-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 58
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2009/06/04: CIA-RDP05SO062OR000200470058-6
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Limuctor Stansfiel"d Turner has aCCOrnplshedssa a _next, ear's purg
III less than a year what the Kremllrt reCtOrke
tI) of Operations could well
has. been' unable, collapse of some vital U.S.
: . ;
yers of Cold Wa: to the achieve sin of spy ? c3a' Middle East: the
networks. in Europe and
the morale of his own agency's top-
secret Ditectorate otbperations.
In his memo.` DDO-778855, dated T ur IN ]FAIRNESS gas oSbetsaid the thaathi stwo
Oct. 7, CIA Deputy Director for immediate !
Operations W m.,W ;wells inform Colby and George Bush s also ed William
clandestine services, which handle, deemphasizing the
covert operittions such clande8i ne services in favor-of tec
countere3 h
as espionage, nological intelligence= atherirt .
pare militarY yiona eerandations; that political they and ;vices tronic such , as satellites and elec-
faced a two sta a pts.
reduce g e that will In patt;''ihls. was nti thsA
In his ie meirmo ranks by n rly 20'per re ognhio of the advancess Tnrade by-
" cent. wiitiih the next45 months. stiencein.this area
,
VDellt admitted that I .' But it Was also
there is no easy way to accomplh
thisr? r &Ction bf t~
is ;ater gate rvl son for c overt op pps*
conceded-that among the spies to.b and 'ofithe Acllendn Chile
l tiott"
kicked out into the cold were-
number` ofi ~i.rir~di duals,, who have atedufrom e reGen.wg me iit who gradU-sll
;made "a vA ual li3 contribution" ta' `nhvan s wartime e-
4 ,the a ut "Wild of Strate .
the agency ,gifd security of -the Services into the CIA had theirfaults
United States
of`excess,technology also Has its Ii
ACCORDING '.TO the mils.
memo Wells.'
Seto-
CIA forced but of the IN SH ORT, what the United
Ofwere to bSelec selected on the basis
?their,.eao , . States needs is a balanced ,'intellf-
ie` b k'. Yea ,years standing annce capability. It needs satellites
rly- valuation boards and a electronic intercepts, historianes.
conduct ed ay''the agency's Career'
Managei4nt-Staff (CMS) These" and lihysicists; psychologists and soil
boards are ctinpgs ?f officers two experts.
grades senioi`' those being rated. But the United States also needs
? Udder, ot too tbugh, dedicated clandestine
veloped by poiht?system de._ 'es willing and?abl Opera.
-the CMS a
senioCIA out ii
,r - tle_backalleys
rank ' of the e to go world to play
agent who has cached supergrede the tier
and lived gerous and sometimes dirty
alai
pot. no Way 0 ha Potential has game fg 'bed on us b
y our enemi
es.
s bility -ta the " g vulnera- Admiral Turner and his coterie of
Vie: t he only three black-shoe Navy men
ways an officer can.aeculate positive may be right points to wi" in: th2what' ,they're trying to do.
~?ugany negative ones
is by havin pr
certainl But
yre
y wrong in th
omoted in fil
sca , the 'e way.,
y
ears 1976 ofr , r being evaluated y a cut-back about it.
as hawiiag' r'.~ e3t> potential" If a cut-is desirable, it ought
"in hs havcv p or ` to .be phased over a longer period.
'w
L ich arel" Potential," all of And men whoHave given years of
fn over 90 ly for
~unlfke any officer brve~hnd honorable- service-tothis
the first 198tf't agents got their C0' deserve something more
pmk:dins $1{5r,r., sz,:_-- than a twaCPntnni.., ---'
th
e " icyi11wla
3Crch I (two of
them , are tfireaf
suits Another 8 class-action.
atives will Clandestine oper-
' t
eir walking papers<
by Junel; ~
next year:. by the end of.
warns',th8[if t ~D -77-8855, ition
normal attrition} .
fate stored into` Ti*ner's planning
j should =lag,
;.a ditioti%I
.
employes"
e fired of-4 he in O 1 rati D'rectorate will be
978. ,
WELLS, A C L
Ls n EER CIA officer,
or the villain this weakening of.
our country's security. Architect of
the, cuts was rt'I3 ("Rusty" )
Williams,;a.
lomgthrie:{ i # nt tit Consultant--
aid special assistant
to:. the, 53-yedr-old
r r, William
Oh ii Turnerdi t were :urged
V David Aaixninj'o
the 'Ntil
aona Security CouiiCiI, `d. formez Mondale-
aide and staf`im r of the Church`, f
Connipittee, CIA
,..1 y cut up: the itl;:
There is 'bfitottl , so be tv'
SOW for- ttti3m_in
ant
g the senior
ranks bf,
ganizatioii' to
avoid
a he
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boos bee 1964
haver bbl o tire at 7O percent ?
of ?h. .setv age 5b after five years
indicate 4bg n would seem t
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