GOOD PROSPECTS FOR THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: February 11, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/06/14: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060017-0
EBUKED by congressional reac-. sional. The Senate will have ample op-
tion to his nomination of Theodore portunity. to., discern. his-- attitudes
fi. Sorensen as chief of the Central Intel- .' about : the. gathering of intelligence
ligence Agency, President Carter now k'i and the uses to which it can and should --
;has come up with a_ candidate:who be put.
Admiral Turner seems to"have th_P ':political ties belon
por left an aura of parisanship where no
in Southern Europe and former presi- .`: tially a politician, having served as
dent of the Naval War College in New-. Republican. national chairman. -This
t
a seems eminently qualitiecd.- Mr. .-President Ford's man for the job
.'Carter's man -. is Adm. Skansfield '"was George Bush. He left office with a
Turner, commander.. of Allied forces -clean record but he-was and is essen-
uurruwing-" government _ papers,
;:- His-: non-professional background is
uca,r.a,. 11G #ia 11AU a ?uA V at career en- ment but he couldn't resist the lure of
comnassin~ R variety of acciemm~n}~
his ..Amherst, and Naval -_Academ Mr. Sorensen, is a bright man with
qualifications. An apt student during rresiaent garter s aniuai.cnoice,
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wand then ifdoriatin them to.the' ar- -
?: naf'P eimn0ty anrl novnr-nnA;.,rr 4--w g
" -" cnives with a subse uent income tax
t Ity' He loves opera and sports and his q
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The person who holds
nomics as a Rhodes Sh 1 H
academic interests have included stu-.`_-Auemuca?u
taxpayers `are,--`or, ,should' be,,. con operations in a world- and at a time in'.
;cerned aboutis the admiral's sensitiv ::.which the United States is subject.to
:doctrine. He is aprofessional's profess .' -have held this vital office. u1~
admiral is-not wedded to any partisan- :agency wasfirst established in 1947, t
What is clear at-present is that the:.; of the men, nine of -them since the
-Nixon years. ?t = 'w - 'x> country, he could rank among the best
%AA. au-ectors;:. notably curing ;tbe; _ ponucian aevoteu to the service of his
;;cesses. and callousness`.o 'previous ed for the.job. A hard worker, non-
.-The country has 'been burned by ex- I,?- Admiral-Turner seems ideallysu
civil government at home and abroad. spying attempts:
ity for the rights of people and their: =