LETTER TO BETTY SOUTHARD MURPHY FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2009
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• Publication Date: May 24, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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The [tor of Central Intelligence
24 May 1978
Dear Betty, -
Thanks for sending along the Ohio State University
Monthly with the article on my visit there in April.
I enjoyed meeting with the student body and faculty
at OSU and found them most receptive to my talk.
Thanks again.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Ms. Betty Southard Murphy
National Labor Relations Board
Washington, D.C. 20570
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The
Ohio State
University
Monthly
ADMIRAL Stansfield Turner, direc-
tor of the U. S. Central Intelligence
Agency, visited the campus last
month to discuss current CIA policy
and that organization's role in nation-
al policy-making.
Meeting with press, radio and TV
representatives prior to his speech,
Admiral Turner adroitly defended the
CIA policy of sharing with the public
those reports that would not impinge
on national security. He said that de-
classification in the public interest
had many reports available to public
scrutiny, admitted that some were not
declassified because of jeopardizing
CIA operations.
The career Navy officer was ap-
pointed head of the CIA in March of
1977. He graduated from the U. S.
Naval Academy in 1946, served a
year at sea before entering Oxford
University as a Rhodes scholar.
His long Navy career includes hold-
ing command of a mine sweeper, a de-
stroyer and a guided missile frigate.
He was promoted to rear admiral in
1970 and that year assumed com-
mand of a carrier task force group of
the Sixth Fleet while serving aboard
the aircraft carrier USS Indepen-
dence. He later directed the systems
analysis division of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations.
Adm. Turner became the 36th
president of the Naval War College
with the rank of vice admiral. In 1974
he was named commander of the U. S.
Second Fleet and the NATO Striking
Fleet Atlantic. He served in that ca-
pacity until August of 1975, when he
was named commander in chief, Al-
lied Forces Southern Europe, with
Campus
make a confidential relationship, you
cannot disclose everything." Even af-
ter years have passed, he explained,
confidentiality has to be maintained.
"There is no way we can give the
public total scrutiny," he said. But he
pointed out, the establishment of
oversight committees provides Con-
gress with the opportunity to keep in
touch with activities on the nation's
intelligence agencies. -
He held little brief for former CIA.
operatives who have written "inside'
books on their activities with the
agency. Most of the former operatives
did not consult with CIA officials pri-
or to publication of their books. As a
result, confidential materials exposed
are believed to have endangered ex-
isting intelligence operations.
Many of these exposes were based
on complaints of CIA procedures. The
oversight committees established,,
said Adm. Turner, were provided the
powers to deal with such complaints,
but "I have yet to find one whistle-
blower who has gone through the
oversight procedures."
The CIA's history began in World
War II when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt established the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS). In 1945
May
1978
headquarters in Naples, Italy, with
the rank of admiral.
Asked about the use of academic
scholars for CIA projects, Adm. Tur-
ner said he felt relationships between
the CIA and faculty members should
be no different than any other rela-
tionship a professor may enter into.
He reaffirmed that Ohio State was
not one of the campuses where actual
drug testing had taken place under
the MK-Ultra project during the 1950s
and 1960s. He said that Ohio State of-
ficials did not know that faculty mem-
bers here were involved in some non-
testing phases of the research.
It was after the CIA released declas-
sified portions of the reports stem-
ming from the project that University
administrators learned Ohio State,
along with nearly 80 other institu-
tions, had any involvement in the re-
search with drugs on humans.
While pointing out that the CIA was
trying to be more open, Adm. Turner
6 also emphasized that "When you
President Harry S. Truman disbanded
the OSS and established the Central
Intelligence Group.
In 1947 the National Security Act of
1947 established the National Securi-
ty Council and replaced the CIG with
the Central Intelligence Agency.
In the last two years, the Senate Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence and
the House Permanent Select Commit-
tee on Intelligence were established
by Congress to provide oversight on
the nation's intelligence operations.
As Director of Central Intelligence,
Adm. Turner is the primary adviser to
the President and the National Securi-
ty Council on national foreign intelli-
gence matters. The executive order is-
sued by President Jimmy Carter last
January gives the Director of Central
Intelligence authority to develop the
National Foreign Intelligence Pro-
gram budget and to direct assign-
ments of all Intelligence Community
,collection efforts.
The Intelligence Community con-
sists of the CIA, the National Security
Agency, the Defense Intelligence
Agency, the Offices within the De-
partment of Defense responsible for
collection of specialized foreign. intel-
ligence, the Bureau of Intelligence
and Research of the Department of
State, and the intelligence elements of
the military services, the FBI, the De-
partments of Treasury and Energy,
and the Drug Enforcement Admini-
stration.
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