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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100080018-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 20, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC..
Face' the Nation
March 20, 1977 11:30 AM
STATION WTOP TV
CBS Network
Washington, D. C.
GEORGE HERMAN: Admiral Turner, I suppose a great many
operations from day to day in Africa, in Zaire, in the Congo, and
other places, must occupy your attention. But your main job, it
seems to me, your most pressing long-range interest, must be the
intentions and the activities of the Soviet Union.
How do you feel they are building their military forces?
To what end and with what in mind?
ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER: I believe the Soviets think
in 19th Century power terms, Mr. Herman. I think they're trying
to compensate for their other weaknesses, economic, ideological
and political, by building a military force that they hope will
weigh in the balance for them and give them for compensation for
their other shortcomings.
In turn, I believe we must not let them take that
advantage.
ANNOUNCER: From CBS News, Washington, a spontaneous and
unrehearsed news interview on Face the Nation with the Director of
Central Intelligence, Admiral Stansfield Turner. Admiral. Turner
will be questioned by CBS news correspondent Fred Graham; by Bob
Woodward, reporter for The Washington Post; and by CBS news cor-
respondent George Herman.
HERMAN: Admiral Turner, you say you believe that the
Soviet Union is trying to make up for these other things, the
death of their ideology, their economic and technological back-
wardness. What do you mean "make up for it"? What do they intend
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