CIA'S TURNER DEFENDS AGENCY'S CAMPUS ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400100018-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 14, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Director Stausfield Turner spoke Thursday at and. national policy-making effects.
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campuses where actual drug testing
had been done. According to Turner,
The director of the CIA, Stansfield the problem on this campus was that
Turner, spoke at Ohio State Thurs- university officials did not know that
day in defense of his agency's use of faculty members were involved in
academic scholars and said that he the project in the 1950s and '60s.
was here to keep those relationships University administrators learned
"going strong." of.the MK-Ultra project in Sep-
Relationships between the CIA tember 11;77 when the CIA released
and faculty members should be no heavily edited documents that
different than any other relationship showed OSU was involved, along
a professor may enter into, Turner with 79 other institutions. The pro-
said during an afternoon conference ject, sponsored by the CIA, involved
with members of the media at Aler- chemical experimentation on hu-
shon Center, 199 W. 10th Ave. mans. It is believed to have been
Turner, a navy career officer, was' done with mind-altering drugs.
at Ohio State as part of a continuing Defending the secrecy that sur-
tour of college campuses. lie has rounds past CIA activity, Turner
spoken on numerous campuses said, "when you make a confidential
around the country for the past year. relationship you cannot disclose ev-
Throwing little new Iititt on the erything."
MK-Ultra project,Turner reaffirmed llowceer, he said, the agency has
that Ohio State was not one of the been trying to be more open and help 12rocedures.
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people under'otand what it does.
"There is no way we can give the
public total scrutiny," he said. He
added that this was one of the rea-
sons oversight committees were re-
cently established to keep tabs on
U.S. intelligence agencies.
Turner criticized former CIA
agents who have written books con-
cerning their careers with the agen-
cy. Many of these agents dirt not con-
sult with CIA officials before pub-
lishing their books and subsequent-
ly, confidential materials believed to
have endangered existing intelli-
gence operations have been re-
leased.
The oversight committees were
also formed to handle these'com-
plaitits, Turner said, but he added, "I
have yet to find one whistle-blower
who has gone through the oversight