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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600420010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 20, 1984
• Content Type: NSPR

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---- 20 November 1984
HE PSYCHIC IS IN
Tiptoe into Madame
Earie's parlor, take your
usual perch on her snake
basket, and ask what is in your
heart.
Q: I will. Madame Earle, I
keep seeing Bob Woodward
creeping around dark restau-
rants huddling with past and
present spooks. Has he joined
the CIA?
A: They say heavens, no, he's
not theirs. But he's apparently
doing "a Major Story on the
Intelligence Community" Its aim
seems to be to rehabilitate the
reputation of fellow old Navy
man Admiral Stansfeld Turner.
(The Reaganauts, recall, blame
Jimmy Carter's old CIA honcho
for the collapse of US Intelli-
gence.) Meanwhile, by a wild
coincidence, Jim Hougan's long-
awaited book "Secret Agenda:
Watergate, Deep Throat and the
CIA" isjust being unleashed by
Random House. This goes into
the Woodward's Navy Intelli-
gence background, and the suc-
cessful manipulation of
Woodward, the Post and the
press by the CIA.
Q: I say! Any more suprises?
A: Why, yes. Watergate was,
secretly, a sex scandal. FBI doc-
uments prove that DNC head-
quarters' phones were never
bugged at all; the bugs were in
the apartments of prostitutes in
the nearby Coluhibia Plaza'
apartment building, but fake
bugging evidence was planted
later at the DNC. What's more,
Hougan concludes Nixon was
spied upon by his own intelli-
gence agents; and the CIA faked
the cover story that led to the
whole scandal.
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TULSA WORLD (OK)
10 November 1984
.overt Action
Rapped
By MARK PRATTER
Of the World Staff
A former director of the CIA
told Tulsans Friday that the Hea-
ga;n Administration is making a
"serious mistake" in its emphasis
on CIA covert action in Nicara-
gua.
' `The Central Intelligence
Agency has been assigned to top-
ple that government. I don't be-
lieve it's achievable by current
means," Adm. Stansfield Turner
said.
Turner said he sees two possi-
ble explanations for the contro-
versy over possible Soviet fighter
shipments to Nicaragua.
The information from Washing-
ton may have been "a deliberate
leak done very astutely" to put
the Soviets on notice that the
United States Won't tolerate such
action.
Or, he said, "Someone is jump-
ing the gun and taking a shred of
evidence and drawing the incor-
rect conclusion."
Turner, head of the spy agency
during the Carter Administration,
spoke at a press conference be-
fore a Town Hall series lecture at
the Performing Arts Center.
,The Soviet Union has denied
MiiG-21 fighter planes were
shipped to Nicaragua and the
Reagan Administration has said
the aircraft may be'reconnai-
sance planes-instead of fighters,
the Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, Nicaraguan officials
said they were preparing for an
invasion by the United States.
'Turner, 60, said, "We're some
distance from putting U.S. troops
in Nicaragua."
The Sandinista National Liber-
ation Front overthrew?a pro-
U.S.military dictatorship in Nica-
ragua in 1979, planning to develop
a Marxist-Leninist state in the
Central American country. The
U.S., has been helping forces with-
in Nicaragua who are opposed to
the Sandinistas.
'Turner said the U.S. is "at a
watershed" in Central America
after pursuing both military and
political courses toward the re-
gion in the last four years.
He said the path to a negotiated
settlement in the region might
take more patience than a mili-
tary solution, but it would yield
in Nicaragua
two dividends: negotiations would
succeed and a negotiated solution
would bolster U.S. relations with
Mexico and Panama.
Turner said Mexico and Pana-
n'ia are the most important coun-
tries in the region to - the Unit-
ed States.
In other matters, Turner said
it is hard to say whether the
OPEC oil cartel will collapse..He
said a drop in the price of oil
would cause economic damage to
oil-producing states: in the U.S.
and countries such as?Mexico but
overall, a drop in oil prices would
help the world economy.
However, he said he doesn't
ibelieve OPEC will allow the price
of oil to drop much without taking
some concerted action to prop it
up.
In 1978, Turner was criticized
for the CIA's failure to foresee the
collapse of the shah of Iran's re-
gime.
"I must assume responsiblity
for not making the intelligence
forecast that he,(the shah) was
going to collapse," said Turner.
"We made false assumptions;"
Turner said.
He said the CIA was aware
that the shah was opposed by cler-
ics and other groups in Iran, but
Turner said he thought the shah
would weather the storm because
of his strong ,ar.ny and intelli-
gence service.
Turner said he thought the shah
would put down the opposition.
Turner said he didn't forsee that
all the opposition would coalesce
around the elderly Ayatollah Kho-
meini.
During his prepared remarks to
an audience of several thousand,
Turner mapped danger points in
the world in the years ahead. He
spoke of the Soviet Union, Europe,
the world economy, the Middle
East and Central America, -
He said it will be difficult for
the Soviet Union and the United
States to find areas where their
interests overlap.
He cited a lack of commu-
nication between the superpow-
ers, although he said both sides
recently have been saying they
want to reduce tension.
"It looks as though arms con-
trol negotiations will be the lit-
mus test of whether they really
want to do that," Turner said.
He said two forces are push-
ing the Reagan administration to-
wards arms negotiations with the
SoWets: U.S. public opinion and
Reagan's desire to leave a lega-
cy of peace in his final term.
Turner said pressure on the So-
viets toward arms control in-
cludes their economic decline
which has to be remedied, social
problems such as alcoholism and
job absenteeism and problems in
their empire notably Poland and
East Germany.
Turner said the only arena
where the Soviet Union can com-
pete with the U.S. is in the mili-
tary sphere. "There is no way the
Soviet Union will let itself fall
behind in the balance of military
power with us," he said.
Turner said arms control
agreements take a long time to
negotiate and the U.S.and the So-
viet Union will probably only
agree to continue to talk about the
subject in the next few years.
Turner, a classmate of former
President Jimmy Carter at the
U.S. Naval Academy, was com-
mander in chief of allied forces in
southern Europe before he be-
came CIA director.
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