U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTOR STANSFIELD TURNER SAID HE BELIEVED THE RUSSIANS WERE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR ECONOMIC AND OTHER WEAKNESSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100080008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 21, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Director; Stansfield Turner- said he
?=~beIieiedthe Russians were trying tort
~.,
_.~4-npensate for economic and other~i
:?"wea~ie"sses by building a powerful.:
;'military force.`Apoearing on the teIe===-.
.:;vision. program, Face the: Nation, he~'; `
'.`also said he thinks the ;U.S_ .Soviet:. -..
=~inilitary balance "is gradually eroding :.,
toward the Soviet side'." but;fie added `_'
.'that the United States -"cari and will'.:,
;be able to redress that" ~potentiai im-:
balance "because the people. of -the ": _~
United States are perceiving this
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