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banquet Address
~y Admiral Stansfield Turner, US(V (het.)
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
EiERE is so LirrLE that is done today, especially in
technical fields like communications and electron-
ics, that is not related to world affairs in one way or
another. As members and friends of this association, I
know you appreciate how important ii is that we have
good information upon which to conduct foreign pol-
icy. The work which you do permits us not only to
transmit that information to its ultimate user, but in
-. many cases permits us to collect it in the first place. As
world events, progress in science and consumer de-
minds push you against the frontiers of knowledge and
require to adapt to inevitable changes, so too in in-
telligence are these same forces at work.
If there is one word that characterizes the state of
intelligence more than any other, it is change. In-
- telligence activities are undergoing a period of impor-
t~nt and fundamental change. Change which, while of-
ten not comfortable, I .believe is beneficial. This
change is not coming about because we bureaucrats
have thought up some new ideas; it is coming about as
a necessary and inevitable response to three trends in
events gong on around us. The first of those is a
changed perception by the United States of its role in
world affairs. The second is an increasing sophisti-
cation in the techniques for gathering information.
And the third is a greater interest and concern by the
American public in the intelligence activities of our na-
tion. Let me describe these three trends and the im-
pact that they have on intelligence,
First, I believe in the United States' perception of its
role in the -world is changing. We are in a state of tran-
sition in public attitudes toward foreign affairs, moving
from an activist, interventionist outlook to one which
recognizes more the restraints and th.e limits on our
ability to influence events in other countries. This is by
no means to say that we are becoming isolationist.
Quite the contrary, I believe we are gradually emerg-
ing from our post-Vietnam aversion to almost any
form of international intervention and entering an era
where our view of the world is much more reasoned
and balanced. Clearly, the United States must contin-
ue to play a major role in the world. Yet the circum-
stances today are such that we must gauge much more
carefully what that role can be and what it should be.
For instance, look at the difficulty that we have
today in simgly~d_ecidingg~~whpp,,,,vv,~~,,e,, are ~~yt~~ w
are against ~~N',~Y~{n~~ib~f1'F~~~~ti't3il~li~l~
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utilize the vast new quantities of technically
collected information, but also to pull together
all of our efforts ... so that they can be or-
chestrated to compliment each other, to help
us acquire what our policy makers need at
minimum cost and minimum risk."
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Soviet Union. But today it is not that simple. Looking
back to the last ear or so, there have been at least two
BOZ~Q@~1~1p~tting two communist nations
against each other with the Soviets backing one of
them. In neither case was the other country an ideal
candidate for our support.
Moreover, it is not nearly so clear today that it is
necessary for the United States to take sides in every
international issue even if the Soviets are pressing. for
an advantage. The consequences of a nation succumb-
ing to communist influence are not always as irrevers-
ible perhaps as we once thought. Indonesia, Egypt,
Somalia, and the Sudan all came under substantial
communist influence, and have returned to independ-
ence.
Even when we decide that some struggling nation
deserves our support, there are problems in providing
that support which simply did not exist a few years
ago. One of these stems from the revolution in inter-
national communications. Today, any international ac-
tion is almost instantly communicated around the
globe, instantly analyzed; and instantly judged. That
judgment-often approbation or criticism---though of-
ten coming from second or third level powers, influ-
ences events and inhibits even major powers.
In the past, free nations often took their diplomatic
cues from the United States. Today in fora like the
United Nations, every small nation uses its one vote
independently and the major powers frequently fend
themselves together on the minority side of such
votes.
If in frustration we decide to use military influence,
we must remember the lessons of Vietnam. When the
pendulum of offense and defense in military weaponry
tends toward the defense, as I believe ii does today,
even a minor military power can cause a major military
power considerable difficulty.
Now what all this adds up to is not that we are impo-
tent on the international scene but that our leverage of
influence, while still considerable, must be exercised
much more subtlety if it is to be effective. We must be
more concerned with long term influences rather than
just "putting a finger in the dike." And, if we want to
be able to anticipate rather than simply react to events,
we must be able to recognize and interpret the under-
lying theme and forces which we can influence over
time. For the intelligence world this means vastly ex-
panding the scope of our endeavors.
Thirty years ago our primary concern was to keep
track of Soviet military activity. Today, we recognize
that the threat to our national well-being does not
come alone from the Soviets or from military events
alone. We must be equally interested in politics and
economics, in food resources and population growth
and energy reserves, international terrorism and in
narcotics to name just a few. There is hardly an aca-
demic discipline, hardly an area of the world which we
can afford not to be well informed. in if we are to keep
policy makers informed. This is a more. demanding
time perhaps than ever before for intelligence and. it is
a time in which there must be a vast expansion of the
subject matter with which intelligence must deal.
The second trend bringing change on us is the. tech-
nological revolution in how we collect information-a.
revolution which I hardly need to detail for this au-
dience. Thanks to the great sophistication of American
industry, our national capabilities in the technical area
today, in overhead photography and signal intercept,
are simply burgeoning. Interestingly though, rather
than denigrating the role and the importance of the hu-
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past prompts the policy maker to ask -why it happened
and what will happen next. Understanding the con-
cerns, the forces that bring about decisions, the in-
tentions of other people and other nations, is the forte
of the human intelligence agent.
Thus today, the challenge is not only to absorb and
utilize the vast new quantifies of technically collected
information, but also to pull together all of our efforts
in these three fields-photographic, signals and hu-
man--so that they can be orchestrated to compliment
each other, to help us acquire what our policy makers
need at minimum cost and minimum risk.
This sounds logical and simple to the bystander. But
as you well know, because technical capabilities have
expanded so and because intelligence in our country is
a large bureaucracy spread over many different gov-
ernment agencies and departments (each with its own
concerns and priorities) we can no longer do business
in traditional ways. It has taken some fundamental re-
structuring to accommodate these changes.
T'he Director of Central Intelligence has been autho-
rized to coordinate all national intelligence agencies
since 1947 when the National Security Act was
passed. [Jnfortunately, until recently he never had the
authority to actually do it. A year and a quarter ago,
President Carter signed a new Executive Order which
gives -fo the Director of Central Intelligence authority
over the budgets of all of the national intelligence or-
ganizations and authority to direct the way in which
they collect information. This strengthening of my au-
ihority is still new and the processes are still evolving,
but it is having a very substantial effect on the whole
intelligence community.
The third trend driving change is the increased pub-
lic attention to intelligence activities ever since the in-
vestigations of 1974 to 1976. Those investigations
brought .io American intelligence more public attention
than has ever before been brought to bear on a major
intelligence organization. The impact of this has been
substantial and, within the intelligence community, it
has been traumatic.
The right kind of visibility can be beneficial both to
us and to the American public. By the right kind of
visibility what I mean is visibility that gives the public
access to information about the general way in which
we go about our business and why we are doing it, and
which confirms that the controls which are established
over intelligence are being exercised as they were in-
tended. To achieve this kind of right visibility, the in-
telligence community is trying to be more open. We
are passing more of the information which we gain and
produce to you through the unclassified publication of
our studies. Taking the analyses that we produce, we
remove from it that which must be kepi secret either to
protect sources or to preserve for policy makers some
unique advantage, and if what remains continues to
have adequate substance and we feel The American
public would benefit from it, we publish it in unclassi-
fied form.
1n addition, we are answering questions more. We
speak in public more as I am with you today. We par-
ticipate more in academic symposia and conferences. I
know .that the intelligence community is doing an hon-
orable and a vital job for our country and is doing it
well. I personally want you to know as much about it
as possible.
Still, some of the visibility is unwanted Unwa t d
n
emora
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an intelligence service that has traditi
on-
ally, and of necessity, operated largely in secrecy. Far
more important is the destructive effect that such dis-
closures can have on our ability to do what we are
mandated to do by the President and the Congress.
First, no foreign country or individual will entrust
lives or sensitive information to us if they do not be-
lieve we can keep them secret. Secondly, it is impos-
sible to carry out the quest for information in a society
like that of the Soviet Union if what we do and how we
do it becomes public information. In short, these im-
proper revelations damage our country's long term
ability to know what is going on in the many closed
societies around us. Because we are such an open so-
ciety, we often overlook the disadvantage to which we
can be placed if we are not well informed about what
goes on in closed societies. For instance, actions like
those of the Soviet Uriion in 1972 in dramatically en-
tering the international wheat market cost Americans
a lot in our pocketbooks. Other surreptitious and un-
suspected moves can cost us in many other ways.
On balance, this increased visibility is a net plus. We
do need the understanding and the support of the
American public and we do need to avoid any possible
abuses. Yet, at the same time, we.must recognize that
with visibility there are also minuses. There are inhibi-
tions on the actions we can take and limits on the risks
that we will take. The issue today before our country is
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metamorphosis is emerg-
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nity in which the legal rights
of our citizens and the con-
trols and the restrictions on
intelligence activities will be
balanced with the necessi-
ty of gaining information
essential to foreign policy."
how much assurance does.the nation need against in-
vasions of its privacy or against the possible taking of
foreign policy actions that could be considered unethi-
cal? How do we balance these desires for privacy and.
propriety with the resulting reduction in our in-
teIligence and covert action capabilities?
Congress is expected to give expression to this ques-
tion of balance by enacting legislation called charters
for the intelligence community. These charters would.
set forth. our authorities to undertake specific in-
telligence activities, the boundaries within which we
must operate, and the oversight mechanisms for
checking on those activities. It is my sincere hope the
Congress will pass these charters during this session of
the Congress. Written with care and with sensitivity to
the kinds of problems I have been discussing with you,
charters could help to resolve same of these funda-
mental difficulties.. Overreaction, either by tying the
intelligence community's hands or by giving it unre-
stricted freedom, would. be a mistake--on one hand,
emasculating our necessary intelligence capabilities
and on the other, inviting abuses.
After all these comments, let me assure you that, in
my view, our intelligence arm is strong and capable. It
is undergoing substantial change and that is never an
easy or a placid process in a large bureaucracy. But,
out of this present. metamorphosis is emerging an in-
telligence community in which the legal rights of our
citizens and the controls and the restrictions on in-
telligence activities will he halancert wart, r},n .,a..~~~:..,
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19 June 1 Ji`9
Address by Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association
SheratonaCarlton House,
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, 20 June 1979
THE STATE OF INTELLIGENCE
There is so little that is done today /especially in_technical
fields like communications and electronics that is not related to
world affairs in one way or another.( As members and friends of this
association, I know you appreciate how important it is that we
have good information upon which to conduct foreign policy. The
work which you do permits us not only to transmit that information
to its ultimate user, but in many cases permits us to collect it in
the first place. Hs world event ~rogress in scienc and onsumer
push you against the frontiers of knowledge and require to
adapt to inevitable changes, so too in intelligence are these same
forces at work.
If there is one word that characterizes the state of intelligence
more than any other, it is change. Intelligence activities are
undergoing a period of important and fundamental change. Change
which, while often not comfortable, I believe is beneficial. This
change is not coming about because we bureaucrats have thought up
some new ideas; it is coming about as a necessary and inevitable
response to three trends in events going on around us. The first of
_1
those is a~C anged perception b the United States of its role in
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world affairs. The second is an increasing sophistication in the
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tec~rrigues for gathering. inform~..i. And the third is a greater
eres an? conc~r~. mere an pu ic~ the intelligence
activities of our nation. Let me describe these three trends and
the impact that they have on intelligence.
First, I believe t e United States? perception of its role in
the world is changing. We are in a state of transition in public.
attitudes toward foreign affairs,
moving from an activist, interven-
tionist outlook/to one which recognizes the limits on our ability/ta
influence events in
they countries /we are not becoming isolationists
Quite the contrary,~I believe we are gradually emerging from our
post-Vietnam aversion~o almost any form of international intervention
and entering an era where our view of the wart is much more reasoned
and balanced./ Clearly, the United States must continue to pi ay a
major role in the world. Yet the circumstances today are such~hat
we must gauge much more carefully what that role can be and what it
shoul d
For instance, look at the difficulty that we have today in simply
deciding who~i a are for and who+''1ve are against i n any i nternatipnaT
issue. ~~~
Traditionally, we often were in favor of the country opposed
by the Soviet Union. I But today it is not that simple./ In the
last year or so, there have been at least two international conflicts
pitting two communist nations against
each othe with the Soviets
backing one of them ~ In neither case was the other country an ideal
candidate for our support.
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Moreover, it is not nearly so clear today that the United States
should take sides in every international issu~even if the Soviets are
pr^e-ss ng for an advantage./The consequences of a natior~jsuccumbing to
communist influence are not always as irreversible perhaps as we once
thought. /Indonesia, Egypt, Somalia, the Sudan, all came under substan-
tial communist influence, and have returned to independence.
Now what all this adds up to is not that we are .impotent on the
international scene but that our leverage of influence, while still
considerable, must be exercised much more subtlely ~if it is to be
effect i ve. / Ole must be more concerned with 1 ong term influences //Father
than just putting a finger in the dike. And, if we w
.~
w
e
m t `be?able to
anticipate rather than simply react to events,,
e
recognize and interpret the underlying theme and forces which we can 5~9
influence over time. For the intelligence world this means vastly
expanding the scope of our endeavors.
Thirty years ago our primary concern was to keep track of Soviet
militar activity ~ Today, we recognize that'the hrea to our national
well-being/comes not alone from the Soviets/not alone from military
_
_~
events. / We must be equally interested in politics and economics in
~
international
food resources and population growth,/ and energy reserves,
terrorism,/narcotics, and in technology transfer to name just a few.
These new 'areas of concern simply represent the expanding areas of
intercourse amon natio vith which we must be concerned in an ~ncre~, as-
?---
ingly interdependent world. Incidentally, the last one I mentioned,
concern for ogy tra sfer isn't really new, it has been with us
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since colonial days. In 1622, in response to,~ai~Indian massacre of
settlers near Jamestown, a ship was sent from London with the latest in
weaponry. That happened to be armor" from the Tower of London and some
crossbows. When the ship arri'v d it was decided to leave the armor--even
though it was totally i appropriate for fighting Indians--but out of
concern that if theecrossbows should fall into the hands of the Indians
it would advan their technological level markedly--they put them all
back on th ship and sailed away. So as you can see, our concern for_
technology transfer is nothing new,fthough the adverse affect it
_..
i
could have on us may be greater than in the day of crossbows., Similarly,
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there is hardly an academic discipline, hardly an area of the world /
which we can afford not to be well informed in if we are to keep policy
makers informed./ This is a more demanding time perhaps/than ever
before for intelligence and it is a time in which there must be a vast
expansion of the subject matter with which intelligence must deal,/
The second trend bringing change on ~s s the technological
revolution in how we collect information./ A revolution which I hardly
-----_~
need to detail for this audience/ Thankss t~~yo_u_ and to others in
~w.~-- - . r V~
related industries,/ our national capabilities in the technical area
today, in overhead photography and signal intercept,/are simply bur-
- - - J --
geoni g.l Interestingly though, rather than denigrating the role and.
the importance of the human intelligence agents this has accented it.
The more information our technical systems give us/ the more cLue_ stions
it raises. A photograph or a signal intercept ~ which generally tell us
1
something that happened in the past prompt the policy maker to ask
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why~ t happened and wh! at will happen next. Understanding the concerns,
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the forces that bring about decisions, the intentions of other people
and other nations, is the forte of the human intelligence agent.
Thus today, the challenge is not only to absorb and utilize the
vast new quan ities of technically collected information,/but also to
pull together all of our efforts in these three fields--photo~d_~hic,
signals, and hu~an~so that they can be grchest_ rated to com l ment
each other to help us acquire what our policy makers need at minimum
cost and minimum risk.
This sounds 1Tgical and simple to the bystander./ But, as you well
know, intelligence in our country is a large bureaucracy spread over
many different government agerlsj es and departments each with its own
~-. --____.s
concerns and~p_ riorities. 4!e can no longer `bsarb and process this flow
--~-....
of technically derived intelligence efficiently/if we da here to our
traditional ways of doing business./ It has taken some fundamental
restructuring to accommodate these changes ~ For instance, a year and a
quarter ago, President Carter signed a new Executive Order which gives
to the Director of Central Intelligence authority over the budgets of
all of the national intelligence organization and authority to direct
The processes are sti,_,;.1 T,~
evolving, but are having a very substantial effect on the whole Intel-
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ligence community./
The third trend driving change/is the increased public attention
to intelligence activities ever since the investigations of 1974 to
1976. Those investigations brought to American intelligence more
public attention than has ever before been brought to bear on a major
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intelligence organization. The impact of this has been substantial .
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and,~ithin the intelligence community, it has been traumatic.
The right kind of visibility can be beneficial both to us and to
the American public. By the right kind of visibility what ,I mean is
visibility that gives the public access to information about the
general way in which we go about our business~nd why we are doing %t~
and which confirms that the controls which are established over
intelligence are being exercised as they were intended ~ To achieve
this kind of right visibility the intelligence community is trying to
be more open.) We are passing more of the information which we gain
and producelto you through the unclassified publication of our studies.
Taking the analyses thaw rn uce, we remove from it that which must
be kept secret either to protect sources or to preserve for policy
makers some unique advant~e, and if what remains continues to have
adequate substance and we feel the American public would benefit from
it, we publish it in unclassified form.
In addition, we are nswering questions more. ~ We s.~eak in public
more as I am with you We participate more in a.~ademic symposia
and conferences. I know that the intelligence communitv_is doing an
honorable and a ital job for our country and is doing it well. I
personally want you to know as much about it as possible.
Still, some of the visibility is unwanted. Unwanted because it
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benefits neither Americans nor our friends and allies.] Here, of
course, I am talking primarily about the unauthorized disclosure of
properly classified information / At the least, these disclosures
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have demoralized_an intelligence service that has traditionally, and
of necessity, operated largely in secrec_v~ Far more important is
the destructive effect that such disclosures can have on our abi~l`itsy~
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to do what we are mandated to do by the President and. the Congress.
First, no foreign country or individual will entrust lives ar
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sensitive information to us if they do not believe we can keep them
secret. ~ Secondly, it is impossible to carry ou ~ the quest for informa-
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tion in a society like that of the Soviet Union/if what we do and_how
we do it becomes public information , In short, these impr~er revela-
tions damage our country's long term abilit~r to know what is going on
in the many closed societies around us.
On balance this increased visibility is a net pTus.~ We do need
the understanding and the support of the American publicnd we do
need to avoid any possible abuses. Yet, at the same time,j we must
recognize that with vis~ib~.'l~ity there are also mi~uses.~ There are
inhibitions on the actions we can take~and limits on tllllllhe risks that we
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tiv~ill take.J The issue today before our country/is how much assurance
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does the nation need against invasions of its pry vacy~or against the
possible taking
of foreign policy actions that could be considered
unet~ hical? ~ How do we balance these desires for privacy and propriety/
with the resulting
capabilities?~
reduction in our intelligence/ and covert action
Congress is expected to give expression to this questiQp of
balanc by enacting legislation called cha_rte~s for the intelligence
commu ity. (These charters would set forth our authorities to undertake
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specific /intelligence activities, the bou~ ndaries within which we must
operate,(a~,nd the oversight mechanisms for checking on those activities.
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It is my sincere hope the Congress will pass these charters during
this session of the Congress. Written with care and with sensitivity
to the kinds of problems I have been discussing with you, charters
could help to resolve some of these fundamental difficul ies. Over?red
action, either by tying the intelligence community's hands~or by
giving it unrestricted freedom,/ would be a mistake./ On one hand,
emasculating our necessary intelligence capabilities Orr the other
hand, inviting abuses.l
After all these comments though, let me assure ou that in my
view our intelligence arm is strong and capable ~ It is undergoing
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substantial change/and that is never an easy or a placid rp oces~s in a
largee bureaucracy. But, out of this present metamorphosislis emerging
an intelligence community in which the legal rights of our citizens
and the controls and the restrictions on intelligence activities will
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be balanced with the necessity of gaining information~essenti'al to
foreign p icy This is not an easy transition I We are not there yet
but, we are moving swiftly and surely in the right direction..
When we reach our goal, we will have constructed a new model of
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intelligence, a uniquely American model, tailored to the laws and the
standards of our society.) As we proceed towards this goal in this
period of transition which will probably last another two or three
years, we will need your understanding and support./ For that reason I
am gr teful that you have let me be with you t.aday.,~Thank you very
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