LANGLEY, VA. - PRESIDENT CARTER'S PLEDGE TO REORGANIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GETTING ITS TOUGHEST TEST BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AT THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

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• Publication Date: October 9, 1977
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PHILADrE ,PHIA BULLET111
9 OCTOBER 1977
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No i a
Reth~king
is the first of tiro articles on I President and.. subsequent "timely". wB et n h
in the Central Intelligence, notification toeight committees of
and how its new director is! Congress. solve therm. --,Competitive analysis" is being ,If
stressed to insure that the Pesident joyrour.s
By JOH,1i J. FARMER - gets. "reasoned dissenting -views on debate-it
intelligence questions, not merely the said .: `
d JOSEPH R. DAUGHEN Preideni
Of The Bulletin &4 CIA's consensus finding or recommea;
i:dation. To oversee this, Turner has to.sit bad
Lanley, Va: President Carter's .brought in a new man, professor Rob- That's tfi
be pre
pledge to reorganize the Federal Gov- _-ert R.:Bowieof Harvard. - ernment is getting its toughest test be. Critics of the agency have charged,
hind closed doors at the Central Intel-i however, that the White House, rather ` Tm'oug
- -~" - _ '-than exercising-restraint on the CIA, returned
i'gence Agency. ' - ? ` '-_=v: - have been "institutionalized," that I
;=,has pressed it. frequently to undertake
Failure'ta-provide effectiVe.$a?
questionable missions -assassination, knowledge of wrongdoing' within the
guards against the excesses of the CIA can no longer be confined to a few
past could lead to serious embarrass- attempts and political coups, such as" overzealous operatives, that Congress
_ _ regime .'-
menu for Carter, or.worse, a major the toppling of the.Alle e
has acquired a larger oversight role:
Chile. You still have the backstop that
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diplomatic confrontation.
Turner conceded that.this was a even if I didn't have the right guts,
But an overreaction in the direction serious problem Lithe agency's past .7
a ency Turner insisted, "it still goes to eight
pt reform could destroy g He spoke of orders ??often handled con ional committees. And the
(congressional
morale, cripple vital intelligence oper- through informal channels, :.- . you
ations, and leave the nation vulnera- know, you could have a.telephone call Intelligence Oversight Board would
ble to undetected Soviet military or right out to here, or something like get word of it at this point. almost
political advances:'- - '` ?? ' -undoubted) =
that, that would bypass the system. -
The man charged with treading this "All these people would be in the act
The director refused to name those and it I were right and the President:
rarrnw line. Adm. Stansfield Turner, who had misused the agency, but crit- was moron ;he'd find a 16t of-pressure,
the new CIA director, talked about offthe-_ a
. 4_.;
_ on hira, Turner said
problem and his-seven months in- ics have accused former Secretary of. ?. =
State Henry Kissinger of unduly in- Outside: the agency, critics remain.
ice during alengthy- interview with. t.Huencing agency estimates and activi- skeptical that theCIA,.often described
the Bulletin is his office here. :;:~ tier during his years in Washington. as the President's "private army, '`
'V/bat I'm doing-is trying to manr.?' ;;:Turner insisted such transgressions carr withstand White. House pressure
age this place so- that I know what's Mari unlikely today.
_ to undertake unwise: immoral or even
going on," he said, "It's big and that's "I think the procedure for approving legal operations.
difficult and there's no formula I can acttvities of the CIA have become, Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-NJ), a
give you that says -1 guarantee I know much .more institutionalized," Turner,,, member of the Senate Intelligence
everything sensitive that'sgoing on." said,- "which means there will be-a Committee preparing legislation that
At the same time;: he' warned that 1 number of people who wilt feel.a seiner- will give the CIA a new "charter," i
any CIA directors oc.employes found -of- responsibility to get.up and say-to-1 was .hopeful but plainly pessimistic.
withholding vital information from su-somebody who's trying to make us do "It's my .hope the ag~ncy~ can be
periors wilt be .fired _=as three hav i _' ething,we shouldn't.; `You're as a j 1 brought under proper 'control," he
been, Turner saidc simtie he tookice .:wrong :tack; .Mr: ? Secretary of State;
"but, well h
interview, oW!
March 9. r Iv1r President; Mr. Whoever it is said in an
-? s ..+~ , can you know?' = : .
13e outlined mere ;steps hrsaid:haveL? Wopld ? Turner seriously consider In the last analysis, the responsibili-
been taken to guard against' a.?el7eat- challenging the President on such an falls -on Turner-himself, ashe con=,.
of the illegal actwtties and loose ad-. -issues i. = ceded. = -
ministration thatcsttica"have cited in. -Y"If there, were anything illegal--in
recent ears: ? What he was talking about... - I.would r .r It's going to depen,. in the moral-
y
_-V_0 emplopWof "fie `covert and have ? _ fortitude of the guy at that desk. he
:. to resign before I would do it,
Tinier declared. -:commented, pointing across the room-
clandestine branch o[-the- CIA - '_! z= c.?
.::
"dirty trick" directorate -- will be another point in :the interview,` ta-his own desk.:-
-At. discharged over--the=bust 26 months- -Turner added,' ere's no question _ ?-"He's got to have the fortitude to
All are employed in the United States that ii, somebody comes and tells me tell his superiors - wherever they are:
to go assassinate somebody, I'll resign and he's got to have the deter-
of weredescri bed by Turner as part
of the "fat" in the agency, much of it ! before,. f evert contemplate it, because mination to tell his subordinates, don'ts
left over from Vietnam. Covert opera ? there's a-presidential order out saying . run around pretending you're going to
tions, he said. are less important.to. don't do it" and because of "my own do things without my knowing it be..
;'day compared to carefUL''analyticai' ? conviction that it is not a useful tool ; cause you don't want me to know
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