BIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2009
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BIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral Stansfield Turner, United States Navy
was sworn
,
in as Director of Central Intelligence on March 9, 1977. In tF
position he heads the Intelligence Community (the foreign Intel
Bence agencies of the United States) as well as directs the
Central Intelligence Agency.
A native of Highland Park, Illinois, Admiral Turner enters
Amherst College in 1941 and, two years later, was appointed to
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. After
graduation in 1946 (Class of 1947), he served one year at sea
before entering Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar for work
on a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Following Oxford, he held a variety of sea assignments,
including command of a minesweeper, a destroyer, and a guided
missile frigate which he placed in commission. His shore
assignments included the Politico-Military Policy Division in
the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
the Office of the
,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, the Advanc~
Management Program at the Harvard Business School, and Executive
Assistant and Naval Aide to the Secretary of the Navy.
He was selected for promotion to Rear Admiral in May 1.970,
and shortly thereafter assumed command of a Carrier Task Group
of the Sixth Fleet while serving aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Independence. After that, he directed the Systems Analysis
Uivision of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
On June 30, 1972, Admiral Turner became the 36th President
of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island
with the ran4
,
of Vice Admiral. During his two-year tenure there, he institutE
major revisions in the curriculum to strengthen its academic
content.
In August 1974 he became commander of the United States
Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic. He served in
that capacity until. August 1975 when he was named to become
Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH)
,
with headquarters in Naples, Italy. Upon assuming that position
S
on
eptember 1, 1975, he was promoted to the rank of Admiral.
He held this command until his departure on P1arch 2, 1977, to
assume his present duties.
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Admiral Turner and his .wife, Patricia, have two
married children. Their daughter, Mrs. Frank Echevarria,
lives in San Diego, California, 4rhere she and her husband
work in the San Diego Community college system. Their son g
Lieutenant Geoffrey W. Turner, his wife and their son,
Scott, live in Washington, D.C. where Geoffrey is in Naval
Intelligence.
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