LETTER TO ADMIRAL E. R. ZUMWALT, JR. FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001300030020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 14, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
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14 November 1978
Dear Bud,
One really should never argue with the press r-?-but I will with
respect to your column in the November 13th Navy Times.
My real point is not to.take issue with your evaluation of CIA
being soft with respect to SALT (of course, I do take exception to
that but you are entitled to your own opinion), but to let you know
that I think you have been taken in by a bad source of information.
I had a check done of six different assertions, as to what the. CIA
had said, that were contained in your article. In no instance had
we said this publicly and in only one instance was the actual situation
correctly described. All the others were totally false.
I think you are on to someone whose information is either hampered
by a bad memory or an inclination to seize on part of the fact and
then distort it to his advantage.
All the best.
NIWI'
Admiral E. R. Zumwalt, Jr., USN (Ret.)
American Medical Building
515 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203
STANSFIELD TURNER
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Dear Worth,
14 November 1978
One really should never argue with the press!-but I will with
respect to your column in the November 13th Nagy Times.
My real point is not to take issue with your evaluation of CIA
being soft with respect to SALT (of course, I do take exception to
that but you are entitled to your own opinion), but to let you know
that I think you have been taken in by a bad source of information,
I had a check done of six different assertions, as to what the CIA
had said, that were contained in your article. In no instance had
we said this publicly and in only one instance was the actual situation
correctly described. All the others were totally false.
I think you are on to someone whose information is either hampered
by a bad memory or an inclination to seize on part of the fact and
then distort it to his advantage.
All the best.
Admiral Worth H. Bagley, USN (Ret.)
7327 Encelia Drive
La Jolla, California 92037
Yours,
STANSFIELD TURNER
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