LETER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001103940123-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: February 3, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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3 February 1982
Yours,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Dear Bill,
In your letter to me on thel lyou
mentioned your feeling that I did not handle my
criticism of the new Executive Order well. I can
appreciate your view that I should have shared my
views with you, rather than the public.
To begin with I thought that I had made my
views available to you in advance of going public.
I submitted a manuscript on this subject for clearance
last October (subsequently published in Post on 1 Nov).
Knowing that either you or Bobby must personally clear
all of my articles, I assumed that if you wanted to
dissuade me from my opinions or probe the reasons
behind my views, you would have called me.
Beyond that, going public was necessary to try
to rectify what I sincerely believe to be a major set
back for our intelligence capabilities. My hope is
that by bringing attention to the weaknesses in the
new order, we can induce Congress to reopen the issue
of passing a charter for intelligence. At least some
of what bothers me most about the new order could be
corrected in a charter.
Sorry to have these differences of opinion and
approach. I assure you that I only want to be supportive
of our intelligence efforts. That does, however, include
sharing my views with the public where I believe that
they may be useful in shaping opinion in support of
what's good for our intelligence.
I have written a more complex exposition of my
views on the new Executive Order and submitted it for
clearance. I'm enclosing a personal copy for you.
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
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P.S. I would be grateful if you would review the
requirement I noted above for DCI/DDCI approval of
my writings. I find that an otherwise very speedy
and cooperative process is sometimes slowed to where
it hurts me. I also, frankly, find it demeaning.
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