LETTER TO MS. JUDITH H. SHREVE FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R000300040148-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: January 31, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

Ms. Judith H. Shreve
Editor
SIGNAL Magazine
Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association
5205 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, Virginia 22041
Dear Ms. Shreve:
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Thank you very much for your-letter of 8 January 1979
and your invitation to submit a statement for inclusion in
the Annual Convention Issue of SIGNAL magazine.
The quality and variety of communications and data
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processing technologies available to us continues to impress
me. The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Associa-
tion and SIGNAL are two important vehicles to my people in
keeping abreast of these fields. My comments on the subject
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n your May issue are enclosed.
I hope your convention is successful. Thank you for
the opportunity to contribute.
Yours sincerely,
/s/ Stansf i old Turnek
STANSFIELD TURNER
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The Intelligence Community continues to rely increasingly
on communications and computer sciences in the collection,
processing and dissemination of intelligence. Policymakers today
are increasingly involved with greater numbers of more complex issues
as new factions exert their influence on the world scene... Events:
of intelligence interest develop so rapidly in today's, global env-iron
ment that the need to communicate and process information more
accurately and rapidly is a continuing challenge.
Growing needs for innovative information handling-techniques. seem
to outrun technological development. For that reason we are always
seeking solutions to information handling problems that will provide
fast and reliable methods of dealing with the profusion of data
available to us.
Compounding this challenge is the corresponding need to apply
fiscal restraint to development programs. We are compelled to be
ever more judicious in selecting among the often costly, technical
solutions to problems. Prudence must be exercised that we: not be
shortsighted and commit to economically attractive solutions that
may limit our ability to respond effectively to future problems..
At the heart of our effectiveness is the adequacy of the intelli-
gence data base over the long haul. Our ability to maintain it reliably
and efficiently over time may very well determine the quality and
quantity of American intelligence. We have learned in the past that
we can rely on your help and cooperation. We will continue to need.-it-
now and in the future.
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