FORMER CIA HEAD LINKS TRADE TIES TO GERMAN PEACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100370012-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 28, 1990
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Former CIA head
links trade ties
to German peace
By ERIC GOLDSCHEIDER
AMHERST - Former Central
Intelligence Agency chief Admiral_
Stansfield Turner told an audience
at m ers o ege last nip -ht that
the United States would do well to
a heed to the fact that West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
has been able to "simply dictate
the terms of a reunified Germany
to both us and the
However, he said, maintaining a
large U.S. military presence in Eu-
rope is not the answer to ensuring
the peacefulness of a unified Ger-
many, a country bound to be a
global economic powerhouse. In-
stead, Western European countries
must undertake an extensive eco-
nomic integration, such as adopt-
ing a common currency, that "will
require difficult sacrifices of na-
tional sovereignty" on the parts of
all the countries.
Turner said he believes that for
the United States to make sure its
economy stays strong enough for
it to maintain a leadership role in
the world, the nation should cut
the number of U.S. troops in Eu-
rope to a forward-based force.
He said that European countries
typically spend 3 percent of their
gross national product on the mili-
tary, whereas the percentage the
United States spends is double
that.
He also said that the United
States can afford to drastically cut
the number of nuclear weapons in
its arsenal without sacrificing se-
curity. He advocated maintaining
only 500 nuclear warheads instead
of the approximately 25,000 the
United States now has.
Turner's speech, delivered at
the Johnson Chapel, was interrupt-
ed by demonstrators bearing plac-
ards calling him a murderer be-
cause of his directorship of the
CIA during the Carter Administra-
he demonstrators were
orted to a hallway where they
engaged in an audible argument
with police and organizers of the
forum from the Amherst College
Foreign Affairs Society.
After 15 minutes of debate, the
demonstrators were allowed to
--display their signs in the chapel
While Turner was speaking.
During his talk, which was ti=
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tied, "Panama, Nicaragua and
Gorbachev," Turner attributed the
demise of Communist regimes all
over the world to the inherent in-
efficiency of centrally controlled
economies and to "man's natural
inclination to want to have as
much power as he can over how he
is governed."
He also attributed the rapid
changes to technology that made it
impossible for rulers to maintain
virtually ironclad "control over
the flow of information."
"If people feel they aren't as .
well off as their neighbors or
aren't as well governed, they will
know it," he said.
Turning his attention to Pana-
ma, Turner said that the recent in-
vasion of that country was "be-
neath the standards we should set
for intervening in other people's
business."
He said the United States must
maintain a claim to moral leader-
ship if it is to continue to play a
pivotal role in world affairs. The
nation must wean itself from "our
excessive reliance on military
power," he said.
On a lighter note, Turner began
his speech by commenting on the
phenomenal changes sweeping the
world. In one year, he said, "we
have seen the demise of commu-
nism, junk bonds and Perrier
water."
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