HE MIGHT HAVE READ THE NATION (CONTINUED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100160032-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: February 17, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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17 FEBRUARY 1979
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Ad u-. Sir1 Hxfie1d Tin ner..', . I know of no other in-
telligence service that predicted the problems in.
Iran. I know of no newspaper or academic jour-
nalists who -predicted them in their writings.
Clearly this caught up with the Shah without his
recognizing it. I would suggest that even Ayatol-
lah Khomeini didn't realize how well his force was
Q. Was there a failure on the part of the C.I.A. to
foresee the dangers.to the Shah's Government,
and what those dangers could mean to America's
-ABC's Ixu,rrx and Aux,n'r,. Feb. 4. 1979
._:issue of February 3. The Nation published-a
learly, Admiral Turner has been caught not
reading The Nation again-this time on nat
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tional television. As we pointed out in our
number of articles.-going as far back as 1960, in
which the Shah's regime was portrayed as corrupt,
repressive and unstable. On this same ABC program.
under the persistent questioning of correspondents
John Scali and Bob Clark.-Admiral Turner finally re-
sorted to splitting hairs: "We did not forecast that on-
the 5th of November this would suddenly well up into
one big eruption that led to the ,departure of the
Shah." If it comes to that. neither did we. or the other
serious journals that were: publishing articles of the
same tenor- as ours. The problem - was- a wrong
policy-supporting. the Shah fully despite his totali-.
.tarian excesses over two decades-and little informa-
tion from the intelligence services that w.otild move
anyone to doubt this policy. (Scali cited documents, for
example, . ostensibly originating with the C.I.A.-
Turner disagreed that they did-predicting that the
Shah would be-"an active participant in Iranian life
well into the 1980s" and reporting that Iran was not
in "a, revolutionary, or even a pre-revolutionary
situation.")
A routine file check of our subscription list indi-
cates that the C.I.A. is not a subscriber-at least
under its real name. although apparently a Texas of-
fice of the agency responded to a subscription solicita-
tion only a couple of weeks ago. To make certain that
The Nation penetrates to top echelons. we herewith
form The - Committee for an Informed C.I.A.-
(C.I.C.I.A.). and invite our readers to send gift sub-
scriptions for The Nation to Langley. Va.
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