THE INTELLIGENCE SEMI-SHUFFLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100080076-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: August 7, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100080076-0
ARTICLE APPF.AJUU:D TIiE' WASh I'iGTON PU:T
ONP1AGB 7 August 1977
Bence Agency and two other units White House to boot, by the position he se error s ones about CIA ex-
under Pentagon control-the Defense tnnk nn the AWACS ~., -1--A ;., perIments with human guinea pigs.
mere was osier, ana omen unresolved, He further antagonized Brown, and 1' """ ?+ "u0` ++c ?nu wIcrdLea as tn-
infighting among the Central Intelli- Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the specter general, they served up a whole
new t of h t
ground that the warning system, In. I
A handy guide to reform of the Intel- larly in covert operations, interpreted1 eluding its ciphering material, might
ligence community awaited Adm. presidential mandates in a highly self fail into the bands of the Russians, thus
Stansfield Turner when he was ap- serving way with results often out of
pointed Director of Central Intelli- line with the original intent. i compromising important American secrets gence six months ago. But Turner over- As a remedy the committee suggestedi Iran. was In fact, the
ped modeled being sold si-the se reached himself, making enemies in that the Director of Central Intelligencet lire was not most doubt tthe
Rus cipher, and d most experts doubt the
high places and low. Now the President run the CIA and also make the rest of,
has ordered a semi-reorganization that the community more responsive to the, putt have the electronic know-how e an increases Turner's power but not by as President by control over budget and'! put it to at the way.
mm.lch as he wanted and probably the assignment of tasks and missions.' Finally, v the on~n, Tel er phi a
.needed for full control. Turner seemed almost ideal for that job. slaver elf and niI nav the al personnel between . He
The guide to reform was the report Since he" bad been Carter's Annapolis moved to replace, a ace, agfdirector, officials. of the Senate Select Committee on In- classmate, he had a personal relationship popular moved deputy mn Ka
.
telligence under Frank Church, which with the President His military career career man with Lyman Kirk-
made an exhaustive study last year. put him in good with the Pentagon.. executive former inspector general and
.The committee found that various in- As it happened, however, Turner had r executive director of the CIA who left
telligence agencies were unresponsive limited contacts with the civilian world E to work at Brown University after
to presidential needs and direction in and big ideas for himself. He submitted be These ing crippled o polio in 1965.
several ways. to Carter a plan for reform that made feeling career themselves fficeial cut the agency,
First the product as a. whole gave him an intelligence czar with opera- off and
short shrift to economic information tional control over all the intelligence demoted, along lately began to retali-
and was served up in a volume and de- agencies. That inevitably put him at They spiked the beans on the AWACS
tail difficult for the busy men at the Heine with rho ns#__ e
Joseph Kraft
The Intelligence SemiShuffie'-
i
Fi
the Turner reorganization pro osal
:tary services, and the National Security countryproposed to sell to Iran. Ina only in part. The President did give the
Aagency, specializing in electronic inter. lAffa. +.. +;,s cam..,,-,., A....-..- .,,
some authority to mete out tasks. But
he kept operational control over they'
two Pentagon agencies in the hands of
the Secretary of Defense, and he setup
as arbiter of priorities a Cabinet com-
mitteeincluding the Secretaries of De-
- tense and Statue
Perhaps there is enough power in the
office of director to manage the whole
community. Turner apparently. retains -
1- the confidence of the President But he -
has not established himself with his col-
leagues. The DIA and N$A are not going
to embrace his leadership, and neither
will the CIA easily accept his authority.
--} So it remains a question whether he
Can truly run the intelligence commu.
$ity. Or If anybody else can, for that mat
ter. The progressive demoralization. of
the CIA by investigation and leak. the
tendency of every foreign policy-agency
to develop Its own intelligence; and the
bitter infighting among rival- agencies
seem certain to go on as before. It may
be that the country will have to live-for a
long time without a wellcoordinated, in-
telligence operation. Indeed, the argu-
went now being made in behalf of the,
latest reorganization Is that It maintains
competition among the agendes, :
,
( whole intelligence community and
cept
on.
nally, the CIA itself, particu- Tice
Turner opposed sale to Iran on the
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100080076-0