AMERICA S SUPERSPOOK : AT WORK IN A LION S DEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300030040-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: June 26, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Ir our months at`fe be oiamg Piyes& :
hoice to ' Bead
dant.Carter's sec6fidtrF
the- nation's intelligence community.,
AdmLkStansfield,?Turner has emerged_
as: oAe of the men closest,'toihe Press i...
~` e, nett ti the'-Georgia Malta `and
VTondaieone sourcesaid
THE WASHINGTON POST
26 June 1977
deiit~ admires hin g
shi WIV has Beenmode since Turnex
only slightly ,at.the Naval.,Academye
Onr man who-has watched the Pres-
ident and Turner said: "Carter trusts`;
him:' He: knows Turner'sbeing::honest.
Navy.pfficer while running, the:-intelli .'
gene community, is' the.first Feritral
Intelligence Agency director to attend-
President usually on :Tuesdays- and,: "I think we've got a product to sell''
meetings very .nell,;according Imen .Turner said' "I think we've got a prod
. who-, lft a listened tal hua " `I spend., . uct.tosell and we've got to get out on
the-last- couple of hours. before- that':, thn 'ctrePr ana Sell"it" '
briefing p epaLL ing ant 11..:..14 s a a ._. ver
import3nt thin andx Moll have; to The White House and? Cabinet agert
s vw u~. _. A .. R, es. are Turner' mostir~portant cus
can aid' congressional co'and
he has 'sought n to Arun o mewh
tfrom;CI -Use? of the Hughes C:lomar
for reshaping the intelligence.eo m
unity
'But, he explains,"- the reason ,a re-
porter is sitting-across from him -and
that TV. cameras have been_allowed-.to,-
film in parts of"CIA headquarters,-is.
his desire to refurbish,_the image;._;to-
the Defense and State departments
and "hare-working" when- askedtabout,
..Turner-{V
"It's clear: he!s, made every x effort to
nity as a (whole 1 ..worke at :that
But -while.. the 53-year-old admiral
has won praise outside: the intelligence
-community, he has taken some shots
"It's 'w" very unhappy; uncertain
lace," one long-time CIA-: employee
rreaiarked. He . questions;', .whether
Turner has the intellectual. depth for,
Turner's defenders ,reply' that - the
;grumbling against him comes from an
old boy network that objects to some
;Sen. Gary Hart: (D=Colo:) 'said it,is'
rformance,;but doesn t- take the ex-
`He's wbj king in.a prettysophisti=
eThe-critics insist Turner has-limited;
nnany. - of -the ?'T-grams" : he.. sends.
I ;T=grams.are short memos asking for.
?terrupt their-. more important wor
5nents_of little importance.-; -- 1 _=
Turner's Operation. Out each'effort"
to open the spy agency--,.to he public-.:. ,,"
memo suggesting the agency explore?.:
thought the idea could ,be ridiculed
preparation for a: retreat on_the.-tour.-
llltlt}Vl a.a ~w~... Mid r ~ A*,; -?
Bled athim,' z ?*4"
. . Turner has sia Navy men workin
fo ehinr at the=CIA, he said, three 0
positions-use to Iii
them in -key
"If thesethree people have ' isolate
me' from. the,-en tire establishment;;ou
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credit because. that's. a pretty clever
He noted that. he had a staff o`sir'
around his offices half the size -of the-,,,:.
immediate staff outside the'"office ? of
t
s wi those of-
'"I've got a .telephone there with `17 ' _CIA analysts, Turner said. he and his
buttons on .Turner. said,.< pointing chief- assistant for" intelligence,esti
across his office,:;"any-one of the key mates, Robert Bowie, are in -the proc-
people is on?fhat; system and:all-he's ess:of forming a team of advisers,;
got to do is press the button.: and .Turner3;saidzthese ;advisers' Would.
on the other en
.
o
not iie all'"`f one'?ideological stripe;
Turner sees nothing wrong in hav nor would :all ` of them be consulted
ing brought his son, Navy. Lt. Genf- on each problem.
frey Turner, over to work. at the CIAa, - -Rather, three-or four iwould be
for four months: Isis son had time be , asked to worlcwith the : _Cl team un-
tween Navy assignments and is a ca, t dertaking a special
reerintelligence officer, Turner said tY siders wpuld~be.selected.t&!boister the.
"It's a`heck-ofa lot of fun for met . a?CL. ,team'?wherever" it was' !eakest,:'
go home on the, weekends, `and 4 sit ;;Turner said.: " '
down and compare,~*Anotes,". Turner'- The admiral said outsiders - have.
said, .It cost the government' nothing been consulted., twice already during
and his. son doesn., work. in Turner's his administratioirof the CIA; but not.
office; but "down in the bowels some- on_ a f'ormal basis
place," lie $az ~, f 3 ;', 4 r 4
^~' Y `After the.CIA published its-predic-
Paperwork is, not cIogged,, Turner 'tion that the... Soviet. Union and . East-,
-`said, in dealing' with=' another -charge.ern European.. nations would become
;Except for lengthy, non-urgent memo~_: net*oil importers by. 1985, a number of
randa, he returns,an=answer to almost
eopl
di
t
d
p
e
spu
e
its?conclusion
all papers reaching him with
hours, he said. in 24' Turner said he wrote to many, of
-. _ f -
-hat has annoyed them;"'Turner.:
acknowledged, is his- desire for-writ-
,ten memos' as `substitutes for what
-would have been. oral briefings in the
"I read faster than you people talk,"
T
urner said he told his subordinates recently-completed reporton'=the?- So-
reads faster than people talk."' -
Turner 'believes in short memos be
cause, he says,-"if People 'can't-put it.
down-in writing,,-hey haven't"thought c
misses another charge leveled against
him privately- by..some and-in:?a:col-
umn 'by Rowland - Evans;and-~Robert:-
;Novak:. That he:wants ta`nse it-as'
way'station before becomiu& chief "of -,
on`a personal basis," Turner said, par-
uwaaua~C
from Carter to spend more time wear;;.:
ing
h
p
'
is: hat as.,,director of the; entire
'intelligence community an4j 'arming
.
#ralization-of the community with a , papers or objects oatable ands desk
:yeiy:: strong overall director
' j or, counter' ?; ~ ' ._ L pe
argument comes from the ;Turned has'