CIA NEEDS TOUGH LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 11, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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has an outstanding; record".:.in- fi mation should be :.p? ac~ ?..~ :_ also reeds-is a strong willed
the':U.S. Navy, but,that should' by some-tough questioning.
surprise no one. When the CIA was chartered administrator who can rein ;n
ts ob- was not abuse and direct the agency;-to
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_ADItii. STANSFIELD Turner now appears likely, that co n
ugh however. What the CIA.
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After all:any; candidate,that -30 years ago,._
President:;-Jimmy^t Ca r? ter supposed to-be?one'o~ meddling" its proper tasks:
recommends to head: the Cen- in the affairs of other' cofan- In an agency"which' still con-
of the - - ad- =
twins some
tral Intelligence Agency.(CIA), ,tries.,,-,.-, r f
:especially='after-ahe?"? Sorensen = By most" accounts the CIA venturers" of an earlier
uickly - became involved'-- in., the t a s k will be :difficult. The"
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s Rhodes: scholar and ; as a more recen y Y ,.. a
;perceptive Navy analyst should "committees. ` "', enouglz ;however: The t CIA's
=beg important to -the :Senate ' Much. of the blame for,, the :abuses s "lies With demand capable : leadership,
certainly his background as documented by 3ournelists and. ;pee y F
I congressional miral's record,. isn'thood
domes
keeping record on-, ?.10,000 How )well 'Adm. Turner can
,.I>i the case: of: any CIA- C' -American activists:` do that job is a question for the
e te ;.committee toy to..
?didat however, a strong The; CIA had;'become=.'a Sena
academic. background.,-and a creature of the '. Cold War der:
well-regarded military . record belligerence' of U.S.. foreign '`.';:The committee's `tendency
en't enough: ' a, r =.~ . policy., As a reflection of our- ? will be to quickly rubbersta np
;What matters is li o w Adm. government's attitudes towards the Turner appointment. it
grimier views the troubled CIA, Communist nations; the "CIA 'flexed t its muscles . -on". the
:"which has .wandered -far in re-- -zealously guarded. the' secrecy Sorensen appointment; but
`cents years- from; its mission 'Of of its activities. there seem" toi be no serious
analyzing and interpreting the ,, ' 'In recent -years, however, problems 'with." Turner's
`actions of foreign countries CIA"abuses have been widely nomination. `` ==
"A d ` eview - 'of ' the ad-
CIA iiad ' meandered into ^guard-who don t want to see
;President-Carter appears -to
hzave found such a man in Adm. t ffairs by illegally: agency change its ways.
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s was unwilling to should scrutinize Adm.' Turner
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