CAN HE HANDLE THE CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060070-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: February 8, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CAN WAGE
College from 1972 to, 1974, Admiral Stansfield'_Turner
kept a? sign on his door that read: "I,need one'good
It was characteristie,of,a man whom his 'associates
and friends describe. as endlessly curious- about-.'
philosophy;. theater, opera, international politics and~?
military affairs.
"He is quite a remarkable military"officer,. almost
an original," said- a war college associate, and F.J..:
Ring,, .another professor' ; at the college;.; spoke' of-,
Carter's. latest nominee to head the CIA :as "highly-i
No date has been set for hearings before the Senate
Intelligence Committee on turner, now, commander--
in-chief?of Allied Forces in southern Europe. Carter's
withdrew: from consideration'in. the face o# strong
Senate opposition .particularly among conservatives "
Both Senate,.. Majority Leader Robert: C. Byrd, D=
V`Va., and Minority header Howard H. Baker -Jr. R',
Tenn.; said they;,know;_of';no: strong:opposRiorr to'
_
Turner.
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or the wo
Stan Turner was an all-round student
as early,as his high, school days iq I3tghland Park IlL
He also was near the top of his class wherever lie-
f studied.
There is one side to Turner which-a navar'associate
"breezy and ; informal" , and 'another`
described'' as
.
which he; said made one !not mistake' for, one minute :
The associate from1his days.atc'the'Newport,: RJ.,
war: college described:,, the shakeup .politics": .he.
instituted on his arrival" Hisfirst dad the i^a he,4, 9 d the
families around -the campus. After this lulling start he'.!
said: "Report-back to the'-first class in one hour."
The shakeup proceeded `with his demand that the,
college serve not as "a year off" from naval duty, b'it
as a program involving- tough: examinations. in
strategy, tactics, analysis, and management.
These practices 'and-his own penchant for a heavy
intellectual diet did not endear Turner to all of. his
peers. 4
However, he%won respect at Newport ~forinnova:
series
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as .a-
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nons, -suc
outsiders, including' his- friend, Herman Wouk; the
ner
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author of the Caine Mutiny: An evening at t
household, a colleague recalled, was likely to include
t eg
une of his guests. a
Georgia governor, N ;Jimmy Carter, who was-., his..
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cssmate4_t,the Naval
Academy=
in-Me acceltedlf
era cass o 1947,., which';
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Turner had`come to the. Navy by"
College, waicn tie attended from 1941-:
to, 1943. He finished. 25th . in a class of
82O;. erved on a carrier ands cruiser ?"
-aid: then won a Rhodes- Scholarship-.
At'Oxford he studied
hil
h
:
p
osop
y poll
,- tics and economics, receiving a mast?
He was' on'destroyers during the
r
Ko
ean War," during which he earned
a Bronze Star and other service med-,
als: ? He - also commanded a guided
missile frigate in. the. Vietnam con-
flict. His shore duty included' two
tours in defense systems analysis at,
the. Pentagon:: He was : appointed
commander-in-chief of Allied Forces
in, Southern Europe in August 1975.
? At? Annapolis he- made the. football
tea-,idespite hisrelatively- short stat-
ure ??andsplayed left, guard.' He` con-
tinue s? to enjoy_sports, playing ten
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...g when:
he has-a'chance. His..classmates re-
me tbered his '"corny puns',"ai,in,the~ '
yea . book,,a habit he appears ,to have
;
d' tie
. ...1 -
rot
Uex'?majed e, former. Patricia
tioaaed in Maryland:, and : their laugh---
tei Laurel,, is married The. Turners
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y and.works`long days,.'hisas
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iaisrre rtk?'
Iii the current national debate on.
intonational strategic questions and
the-'balance of forces between: the
Soviet. Union and the United- States,,--
Turner's contemplative mind has
paced him. firmly on the side oppgsite
"the quantifiers" among U.S. policy-
makers who have -attempted in re
cewt years to' measure strengths in
numbers of ships, missiles and
plafies. He' prefers to judge-. long-
range trends, as his article on "'The
Naval Balance" in the January edi-
tion of Foreign Affairs illustrates:.:
?Ue wrote:- "Focus on trends rather
than statistics will make the dialogue
ora-the naval balance more substan-
tia) and: constructive.-:Our survival
and that of'our allies'lin war depend-
on the vital sea links between us, and
these, are -ensured .largely by our -
naval power.'
'A sensible approach' will"' ' ? '
be to::~
ask not, "Who, is ahead?'- but to de..
termine;whether our: naval rce
hand,' considering the other forces on
the planet, can carry" out 'our national
:purpose _.`.which is. principally : to
k
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e ifwe c;: ad if
" .;an.n we
cannot.',: to protect ourselves?;?from:
storms; and to-,help our friends` pro-
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