ABUSES OF POWER ARE OVER, SAYS CIA DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100140134-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 134
• Publication Date: April 14, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LEXINGTON HERALD
14 April 1978
By C. RAY HALL L
Leader assiuant city editor '?:
,"You don't get to be a four-star
admiral without seeing some warfare.
And there was some warfare out
there tonight."
The speaker was Dr. Vincent
Davis, head of the Patterson School.
:'o( Diplomacy .at. the University of.
Kentucky. He'was referring to the:
events surrounding a . speech by Adm.:,,
Stansfield Turner, director of the-U.,
S. Central _Tnr 3 e Qce A v t UK
Wednesday night ,
The "warfare" resulted in the ar-
rest of 12 persons; including one juve-
nile, who were charged with
disrupting a public assembly at the'
Most of those. arrested are- mem-
bers of the Iranian Students Associa-
tion, which alleges that the CIA has
trained and armed SAV_ AK the Ira- 1
nian secret police. -The students' asso-
ciation says that SAVAK commits
murder and torture to enforce the
rule of the Shah of -Iran. -
Turner was here to explain that
the CIA's "bad old; days" are over.-
:that a new era of 'oversight is here,
and that abuses of` power. will no
longer happen :
"I! anything happens that's a high
t;'risk; I make the tough decisions," he
~_said at a press conference. "Our
agents know- that." ,
A member..of the Patterson
school's advisory board, he delivered
. his talk to about 600 persons as part
of the John Sherman Cooper -lecture
series.
Ironically,--his visit coincided with
the release of serious allegations
about CIA activity by a New York
magazine;- Outside.- The magazine says
that the CIA lost a nuclear.generator
In an avalanche in the Himalayas in
1965.
The magazine says scientists fear.
the device's casing will corrode, re-,
leasing radioactive waste into the:
headwaters of they Ganges River, im
periling hundreds of thousands of India
:ans.,.. .. .. ra 'j
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Turner refused to comment on the
report, saying only, "We never dis-
cuss operations, present or past: Be-,
sides,. I: wouldn't take what Rolling
Stone. says at face value." Outside is
a Rolling Stone publication.
Here is the chain of.events sur
rounding Turner's speech----'- -?--
By 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, 30 min=
ipersons were marching outside the
tudent center. Most of them carried
,lacards with slogans, suc IA,
Get out of Iran" and "Down with the"
Shah, U.: S..Puppet' '.
By 7:15, many of .the -marchers
had moved inside: to the rear of the
grand ballroom, site of. Turner's talk..
Turner,; wearing a gray suit and
glowing from a suntan,: waited in an
anteroom, fiddling with the cuffs of -
his white shirt.
Around 7:25, Joe Burch, UK dean
of students, huddled with the demon-
strators, telling them they-would not
be allowed to hold their signs: they
were told to. leave the posters on the
floor "or face the consequences."
Some students dropped their placards
into, a pile. Others refused.
"What will happen if I don't put
down my sign?" asked one.
"You'll be removed," Burch re-
..How?.. `.. a
"We'll leave that to-the authorf
ties, " said Burch,
"Will I, be arrested?"
Burch didn't answer: But several
minutes later, around 7:45, the protes.
tor had, his answer. UK security po-
lice, under the-direction of chief Paul
Harrison, arrested three Iranians who
still held their signs
- George Potratz, a UK. English pro-lessor who had been among-the der
onstrators,-rushed up to Harrison. - -
"What's going on here?" he asked
said, pointing a finger at Potratz__
chest.
Moments later;' at 7:50, Turner'!
and Davis took the stage to a mixed i
reaction: many, in the crowd stood
and cheered; others jeered. Even as ?
Davis-was. introducing his old friend;
the CIA director, two more arrests-
were made:
"Do you want to pick me up and.
carr'y'-.me out, or what?" a girl asked.
the UK police chief.
"I don't want to do anything to
you," Harrison replied.* 'T just want.
you to put down that sign:'
=?`-'She-refused and was arrested, as
.,was a-male companion. That brought
;the.arrest:total to-six before' Turner
had said: a word. T ' -
Six more arrests followed during
Turner's speech.; They resulted from
three separate incidents in which Ira-
nian protestors moved through the
crowd.carrying large cloth banners..
Davis condemned the conduct of
.most of the- protestors. "These people
were here lamenting the loss of per
sonal ' freedom in :their own country,!'."'
he said. "And yet they were abusing '
this man's freedom to speak and be%
heard."
After the speech, about: 40 protes?.
tors-returned to'the student center:
lawn, marchingand chanting. "This
was a good;'demonstration,' ; said one
who- refused to be` identifed_ at :_
`'We got arrests.. When you get ar-,
jests, that meanstt's a big demon
stration.
"
The 11 adults-and.one.juvenil
were booked* at Fayette County De-
tention Center.. Bail was set a, 2,M
each and many were released'on
'
their own recognizance:
Harrison didn't answer, .continuing {
to supervise the arrests. . li
"Will you talk: tome? " Potratz
asked, louder this time
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