NEEDS, OPENNESS BALANCED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120067-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: November 12, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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12 NOVEMBER 1977
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tsy TERESA SWANK
Family Fare Editor
In an effort to, obtain an
"academic" opinion on the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), Direc-
tor Stanfield Turner appeared
before- Wabash College students
Friday 'evening during a lecture on
the Crawfordsville campus.
,Turner spoke at DePauw Univer-
sity - his first college appearance
since being named in March by.,
President Jimmy Carter to head the
CIA - earlier Friday, telling the
DePauw audience. that the new
oversight of the intelligence,com-
munity is creating an American in-
forma tion-gathering apparatus
that balances the nation's security
needs with its traditional openness.
During a press conference Friday
prior to his Wabash debut, Turner
said he believed that the CIA was in
"fine shape when he was appointed
director and the situation is still the
same." He also said that he felt he
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In talking- about former . CIA
director Robert Helms, Turner said
he was ,"personally pleased" with
the disposition of charges that
Helms gave false,- testimony to a
Senate committee. After plea bar-
gaining with the Justice Depart-
ment,- Helms was allowed to plead
guilty and received a fine and sus-
pended sentence.
"None of us in the government are
above the law or entitled to lie. But I
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When asked if he thought one per-:
son could get too much "mone-
tary" control over the agency,
Turner said,-" I don't feel as though I
am in charge, not control. I can't 'r
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make out a
check, sign my name
andlet it go at that. Istill have todis.
cuss these measures-with. the
proper officials, so I don't feel I am :
controlling the entire CIA budget."