EX-CIA HEAD, TURNER, URGES INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100430003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 6, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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6 March 1981
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?'viously;looking for intelligence that:; personnel, many. had been: set in their
tot of the CIA under Jimmy Carter; in:;,-_
a - SFS _ Deans Seininar: last week,j supports` their..:policies:. Although the ways; but ' I ' felt it'.was important to
pressures ? are "not malicious, there is ~ _ adapt and change with the times 1W ill
responding' to',questions .about:,the the: tendency to be swayed:. I'm sure reemphasize that we only cut from the
,--agency. in the past administration and the-.- inteIligence' gatherers-" .?-in; El bottom :5 percent.`True,;morale :did
emphasized the sonUnited.? Salvador were under pressure to? give suffer: -Many of the -younger. agents
State.. Tthe States., Tofurner intelligence in
g con; :: the administration some evidence that. were worried about job security, when
is flirts present-in the administration of:~';
d eared- the-way
Lthe: CIA and- cited titer new direction'" their policy was valid. I wasp for exam. in actuality, we- ha f
that-the agency_ed wiH be taking. in the.,,*.. le;:under pressure during, the?SALT for the newer agents to.rist.. :..
m find that the policies taken by"- The - Central Intelligence', is now
the administration were verifiable ' beginning to move in new directions,
Looking back to the role of the CIA
in past years, Turner said `'iatelligenc 'Addressing" ;the " charges that the . according: Turner..`He'noted that the
? Carter" Administration has allowed the agency should begin to.erploresocietal
has become decidedly more important.:-_?C-
IA to slip from real expertise, and -: changes to better understandthework-l
in recent years. Twenty or thirty
ago, we had such' obvious y dominance- .,'.the- the Reagan Administration's attempts. ings of countries: He emphasized the'
in world affairs that there was no need _to lift many of the restrictions. placed - growing .importance of economics' n.1
to understand the inner economies arid'..- on: the agency, Turner said,. "The lif-' intelligence and `said,: "the USA
Ling of these restrictions really hasn't doesn'r`really- understand what
cultura -of . different 'societies'. --Now-';
cultures
that we are so near parity with"coin=== changed anything; the.:, restrictions economic. warfare is all about; and we'
tries, it has become important to know largely: concerned the privacy, of the " are in economic. warfare today." Wel
American people. They really weren't" :.really want more spys.with`economici
all we can about them. Intelligence has. - . - f ted .had to expand into areas that we never , inhibiting . What's happening is not an. ' degrees. ' He also'commen ' on the.
had to before. Terrorism, the health er ~ unleashing of the agency,- but only importance'. of the::' coairiercial''in=I
reforms to help them keep secrets bet- telligence,and'said that he`thought
foreign leaders, the effect of ~conomi~,: ter: For-: example, making the CIA that the CIA 'should begin to help thej
policies were topics that never really report to only two committees instead business community in informing it of
=concerned us..-Twenty years ago we of eight " trends that are important to economicl
didn't erect know the. names^of many ?'11ie ?whole ruckus about the- so concerns, Summing up,- Turner?:com-
countries.,Now there are some150 m ..
scalled blood-Ietting at the agency and mented, - -. We- used to._ dominate
;E.~ :N , and ii:yoiz don't know what the.loss._ of a. great. pool :of .talent was - world "scene, :and now . we:compete?in
s them tick you have 150 pro ~, not true_We took the cuts mostly from-;_ it. We have to;'understand ;the other;
{ 'e r r;., ~,rfi r~,,,,;< she bottorot 5 percent of the personnel..= fellow if we. want. to stayori top.
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