CIA RATING SLIPS UNDER TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200780002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 18, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By J ames Coates
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WASHINGTON - Adm. Stansfield
Turner is having a lousy time,run-
ning the Central Intelligence
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Agency (CIA) for his old Naval .1 able former CIA executive, James J.
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mmy
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. Angleton, recently sent a newsletter
When he isn't reading about leaks to-friends in the- intelligence com-
in the press clippings his staff hands munity It began, "The disgraceful
him each morning, there is time-to and dangerous decline of the e pres
deal with Carter's.-complaiats that tige and vigilance of- our tei-
he's "dissatisfied" over the "quality"
of CIA's intelligence. genre community has never been so
Some of the things which crossed marked as at this hour."
. Three years and three CIA direc-
,Turner's desk in recent months.. . - tors ago, Angleton was fired as chief
- ? CIA officials admitted during
the trial of convicted spy William -unit agency's- counterintelligence
Kampiles in Hammond, Ind., that the unit as House and Senate commit-
tees began disclosing illegal CIA op.
agency lost track of 13 copies of the stations within U. S. borders. -
same satellite manual that Kampiles Those hearings, conducted by Sen.
supplied the Soviet KGB. Flink Church (D., Idaho), and Rep.
o The White House leaked a story Otis-Pike (D., N. Y.), were a media
to reporters that one of Turner's top bombshell Thousands of secrets
analysts,: - David Sullivan, had were made public. TV viewers saw
supplied aides of Sen. Henry Jackson Church brandish an air gun de-,
(D., Wash.), with. classified- tdouc- signed by the CIA to fire deadly poi-
menu on arms negotiations with.the son darts; there were disclosures the'
Soviets. agency kept illegal files on 10,000
? Turner was forced to renew-Sul. .Americans, and it was learned that.
livan's top secret clearance after Sul- the CIA tried to get the Mafia to kill
livaa joined the staff. of Sen. Lloyd Cuba?s Fidel Castro.
Bentsen (D, Texas), a Jackson ally.- ;
? Carter sent Turner a handwrit j 2-'fie CIA's prestige plummeted. Mo-
ten note expressing presidential dis- I ralarat the agency's headquarters in
may that the CIA. had advised -the suburban Langley.Va., sank. -
White House It foresaw no problems --.CIA Director Richard Helms was
in Iran just days before the civil sent to Iran as U. S. ambassador. Wil-
strife erupted. llam Colby replaced Helms; removed
? Debate continued among former Angleton and then himself removed
CIA directors and other intelligence in favor. of Republican National
community figures on reports that - Chairman George Bush. Carter wort
the spy agency has been infiltrated ? the` presidency and. replaced Bush
at a high level by a mole'- a U: S., with,Turner.
version of British traitor Kim Philby
who loyally served .England's M1-6
for decades until he reached the top
and then started feeding informa-
tion to Moscow.
Turner is the fifth man to sit in
the CIA director's chair in six years
- a point some agency employes
mention when asked about morale.
They also point out that the Senate
soon will consider a bill to reorga.
nize the agency, rewrite key laws
under which it operates, and expose
the already overexposed soy shop to
still more public scrutiny.
PHILADE JPAIA IPJQUIRE.R
18 FEBRUARY 1979
ps are scanned:
Turner gave reporters a hint of
his own morale over lunch recently
at the.National Press Club when he I
said, "In the 19 months that I have i
been director of the CIA, I have
come into the habit of screening the
press clips first thing every morn--
ing. I almost hold my breath until I
know if today's disclosures include
some of_.our sensitive sources of in-
telligence. .
"Sometimes it comes- out as a leak,
sometimes -from the forced testi-
mony.of one of our officers in court,
and sometimes from the subpoena of
a document or notes."
One outs
oken and k
l
o
d
Many many leaks
And through it all were the leaks.
The first was Philip Agee, who today
is perhaps the most hated man at
Langley. Agee spied for the CIA, pos-
ing as an Olympic games official,
and later began publishing lists of
every clandestine CIA agent he
knew. One of Agee's targets. - the
CIA station chief in Athens, Richard
Welch - was killed after his tie to;
the agency was exposed.
More secrets about the agency's
methods and sources leaked in
'books by another defector from the
agency's ranks, Victor Marchetti.
CIA officials confided in congress-
men that intelligence agencies in
other countries were refusing to co-
operate with U. S. agents. -
Agents carefully recruited in the
-field began resigning, telling the
Americans they feared their names
would surface in one of the many
leaks. -
= Turner said an allied spy-agency
which he refused to name had re-
cently backed out of a proposed spy
operation with the CIA. -
it (the foreign spy agency) did
so," Turner said, "when reminded
that I must notify eight committees
of Congress of every covert action.
They could not imagine that the
plan would not leak." -
STAT
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