FOIA
LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM STANSFIELD TURNER
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP88B00443R001103940124-0
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Document Creation Date:
December 20, 2016
Document Release Date:
November 28, 2007
Sequence Number:
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Publication Date:
February 3, 1982
Content Type:
LETTER
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ST SFIELD TURNER
3 February 1982
Dear Bill,
Thanks for taking the time to look into the
matter so thoroughly. I can only say that
account of the conversation he and I had
bears not one semblance of truth - not one.
comments are equally erroneous - though may have been
inadver entqy wrong - since he was not within earshot
of initial statement to me that you were his
source.
I can say that) (remarks are totally
erroneous not on1 because my memory is very clear,
but because has undermined his own credibility.
The issue you discussed with him was "Who was his source?"
Surely he had one. He did not say that it was you. He
did not deny that. He did not say that the story was so
common that he heard it on the street corner. He did not
say that it was some other individual, even unnamed. His
evasiveness on this basic point obviously indicates his
intent to cover up his indiscretion.
Your detailed account has totally persuaded me,
, that I jumped to the wrong conclusion when
volunteered to me that you were his source. I
felt either that I had been deliberately set up to look
bad before the public, or that the Agency had never
been sincere act
of my article since
it was now reopening that wound in a public orum. It
is now quite clear to me that whatever you told
was an inadvertance, not a deliberate leak.
Again, thanks for your personal attention on this
question.
STANSFIELD TURNER
The Honorable William J. Casey
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
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