CARTER PICKS ADMIRAL TO BE CIA'S DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060076-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: February 8, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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inouncedvMonday he will nominate an Annap=' "ers, 'The President feels that it is important;
:_ ohs classmate, Adm. Stansfield Turner, to, that the top GSA job not be political in na=
head the Central Intelligence Agency. -. ture.'.=
Turner, 53, is Carter's second choice for;According to deputy`press secretary Rex
'the' sensitive position. His first, New York: Granum, during the Cabinet meetin Carter ;
1 . lawyer Theodore Sorensen, withdrew when ' also:
-widespread opposition cast his Senate confir- 'Was told by Interior Secretary Cecil An-:
i ?mation in doubt: "?.` , ' ' ' drus that the natural gas shortage is "real."
}} President Carter told his Cabinet that "IWhether or not the'probiem'has been "con
, an
never ? knew him" at Annapolis. Carter said - trived' = remains' the subject of
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Turner. "was so far ahead of us" as a mid.;':- investigation, Andrus added
shipman that he never considered him a coin- 'Learned from White House energy coor-
I? peer. etitor or even a `? `dinator James Schlesinger; that or gas
E But at the Monday Cabinet meeting,'` pipelines are now ''full,') -.that: the ;energy,
Carter lavished praise on. Turner, telling .-;'situation is "improving,'.' but that. the"emer-.
those present, "I have never known a better' agency" remains:,:
military person I, think as you meet him, ' 'Instructed -Secretary''of State Cyrus-1
you will find him a military person who in ':.Vance to "hold down on the pomp and cere
the future, could be the next ? George Mar-.i.; mony" associated with official visits to the
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shall:' (Gen. Marshall served as a secretary,-. s.U.S. by foreign leaders
. of defense under President Truman and was .*Told Cabinet members he is processing'
r' the author of the Marshall Plan. to rebuild applications for federal disaster'aid because'
war-torn Europe. He was considered by many of the weather-fuel crisis "in a conservative
to be one of the outstanding men of his gener- way," so as to avoid making :,`a boondoggle
ation.) r :,
out of them:'
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, i-?= In addi#ion to naming Turner, Carter an- Carter also said his 'CIA secretarydesig--
pounced he is retaining Jack M. Eckard as. pate will be invited' to a subsequent abinet
mer .President Ford. Eckard - is a' ' Turner, presently commander-in chief of
;..served"as-an intelligence.officer "and ~there-
'fore met a Carter requirement of being an
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in the CIA, according to Powell.-
"outsider
N? I cally'in the, class of 1946. (Carter.;was 59th);,,
midshipmen.
: southern forces since September; l975::Previ-
Y"sous to-that,-he headedzup: the US.=;Seventh
r Fleet A. Vietnam vetern. Turner was presi-a
A.I. from 1972 until 1974. During his. tenure 'at' the War College; ;
~-TurnerNinvited:then Georgia-Gov. Carter.: to;
~_speak to the students, there..He'also'directed.
!j a shakeup of curriculum at tfie school; and,'
according to - Powell, : "that: was' one of the
things which recommended him" for' the top'.
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