CIA'S NOW 'A MODEL OF OPENNESS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120055-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: November 16, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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-- , 16 November 1977
?inr a,rllw- n1Uu inteuigence_-agency. which.
has taken its lumps since Watergate, has gone so ,
far in trying to-improve its- public image that it
now passes out. information kits. about the super-
secret agency to reporters.
-That,, and .. a -new "openness" ? about- the CIA"
have made it a new model. of American intelli-
gence; according=, .to. Adm.. Stanfield Turner,
agency: director.
Turner, in=Chicago' Monday to address a meet
. 'ing of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations,
said, however, "We must still have secrecy in the
"BUT WE are continuing to review what,-
can make public, and what can be public will
be," he told reporters. His press conference and
address, part of a series he is making throughout
the country, was designed to' convince the people
of the CIA's forthrightness.
The information kit included background on the
CIA and a report it prepared on the international
energy outlook to 1985. The CIA's conclusions
were not encouraging for- the United States;
it reported that oil and gas supplies will increase
tittle outside the OPEC nations.
Turner, who'.'fired 198 employes of the CIA's
operations section, effective March 331, said anoth. ,
er 700 would be dropped by Oct. 31, 1979, adding
that there is "unanimity in .the CIA, that it is
overstaffed."
"I found that. my two predecessors had been`
,
planning a major reduction- in. the operation of
that section,. and. I- made the . decision to 90 -'
condone excess personnel."s?
THE- PRINCIPAL 'function 'Of''the operations-
port personnel, is tie gathering of intelligence.-
Turner said a good part of the CIA program is
research that is evakiated- by The government's..
decision makers. ~.; ..c_
He said he is hopeful that Russia will stop the-
microwave radiation of the U.S. embassy in Mos-
cow that has been going on for years.
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