SEND HIM OUT TO SEAS THAT ARE MUCH CALMER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100110051-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: April 15, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TAMPA TIMES (Ft_)
15 P.pri 1 19E0
? ~ r ram Washirigtore ~~:-;the Freedom of Information Act. _ .That .boss tad editors he has
T ~, ; . Now Admiral Turner wants to re-+ authorized the 1?a~ of three ournal-~
' ? LICE A IYIAN wit..out a war, Adm. ~? a 1
Stans6eId Turner spends many~of his~~~ ?Pe~ Parts~of the FoI Act, even though ~ -fists but that theruse of these news-:q
.waking hours as ?director -of ?central.. =he admits that the onlymaterial. dam-~ papermen was not consummated for?.!
intelligence prompting the trouble_~I aging to the_nation's security released ~ ~otl7er reasons: He was. not in ihe~least~+~
some proposition that.tlie constitu-.::under the~taw came because of gov-~ bit concerned that such_action_had
Lion of the United States?of Americai -,ernment error. He~just wants to make'' compromised alI objective United
should-not get in the-way of his;CIA sure. He just wants to set at ease a11- States foreign=-correspondents -
spooks. ? ~ - . _ - ~ ?' "" ! . -the dictator governments of the.world: even to the extent of'endangering
' itivi to ?the freedoms1' that~upply us so much information = -their lives.at the hands of crazy for-
rlls insens ty
we have wrapped in the First'Amend,1~ 'and are: just~.petrified'somebody is . eign generals or ayatollahs who dis-..1
~ment. to that constitution was never,I going to find out about their Glandes- ~ trust a free press anyhow.... . . . ~
so 'evident as it was here the other ~ tine activities. ~ . ~ Admiral Turner was a classmate of
-day when A~lmiral-Turner disclosed i. ~?Intehigence is not a~science;" said ~' President Carter?some years-ago at
to the?American;Society of News- : the admiral, "It--is?a craft, sometimes i the U.S: NavaT Academy.~Tha~ seems
paper Editors that he has resurrected'.. even.an art." ~ =, ~` ` ~~ .'- -j to be the admiral s principal qualifi ~`
the discredited Watergate-era prat-.? - Whatever it ice, . tiifeliigerece~ is `cation for"holding his present land-~ `
tice of allowing journalists wha area something that is not:~always prat- 'side assignment:=In..civvies,:between-:
wars, - e has. trenchcoat, will travel:
.foreign correspondents-to do a little; ticed by the director of the CIA, who ~
moonlighting asspies .: =': ::= ! _ knows perfectly. well that the FaI act ThePresident oughtao send him hack
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,papers meeting in ilie nation's capital:.. law because of the perceptions of
received the~disclosure with such cha- `.some shaky banana republic regime is"
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-' :"I doh't~utiderstand~this;"?:.he'de= ~?intelligence iaformationc?He would;'
for;instance;..prohibit :before the~~fact,.;;
,Glared, as~we wondered about~hisreaij._
`intelligence. `-`h?really: don't'Tt's?just=a= : discIosure,~of.; CIA ~misdoings like_~
~reQuestthat userveour.count, -?~ those_gleaned:~from-the famousPea=-
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.: ~ So simple: So?patriotic:?Sa~danger~~-,..tagon?Papers"pliblished.by The Neui
~~?~'~?~~~ ~ ~ But the most seriousprolileai.at,
. It was. during the era of President '~ hand was~caused by the pen of Admi- j
:~ Richard M. Nixon, tlYrough the un- ~ ral Turner.who changed the policy of
. happiness of .the Vietnam.years and ;former CIA Director George:.Bush by.'
. the disgrace oftbe Watergate years; ~.~~~,;..,c.,:: +ws ~.,e..,:~,'+., ..e;.,..,;+ ;.,,,r_
.~,Q~ u.G ~.,.,,,..,.~ .., ._....__ .. __ _-___-- nalists for.spy missions with..the ap-:
'+to a.fine craft So icrsesponse to~_that ~: ...Adm:Stansfieid.Turner_.,
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