TOUGH NAVY 'BRAIN' IS HEADING FOR C.I.A. JOB

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• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
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• Publication Date: February 13, 1977
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13 BRUARY 1977
ADMIRAL - : ' STANSFIELD
TURNER,' 53, is not
likely to be hotly challenged
in the Senate as President
Carter's second nominee for
the post of Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
as was Mr, Theodore So'ren-
sen, who - was forced to
withdraw.-
The admiral - the, third
officer of that rank to, be a
C.I.A. .chief - gained a repu-
tation as a tough. minded intel-
lectual during two years as head
of the Naval War College at.
Newport. 'Rhode Island, before
becoming commander of the'
Second Fleet in the Atlantic in
1974. - '
He elevated the curriculurri
to unheard of heights. insisting
that fledgling staff officers must
of warfare in
hist
V th
k
ory
e
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depth back to' the Greeks and He argued 'against being
Phoenicians, and : study ? the '. hypnotised by. the count of ships,
t.. itiems aircraft and submarines and
philosophy,. politics and . ccn-
nnmics,'receiving - his. d- e gree in
1950. - - -
.:, ~ . instead in terms of missions.
-'-`= America was far more dependent
STEPIIl;ti BAI{13ER'i must seek to control the sea
lanes,. whereas Russia's navy is
in "rashington - "primarily designed. to deny
that use to others." - ' i
N.A.T.O. forces in Southern i' Our 'survival ' and that of
Europe, his.approach to Ameri-- our allies in war depend on the
can defence strategy matches. vital sea links between us, and
that of ;Mr. Carter. . these are ensured largely by our
Both are determined that. naval power," he wrote. .
America's nuclear deterrent -
capability must he totally cred--.' Rhodes scholar -
iblei But they are also more con- - Admiral Turner was a class-
cerned about the trend of Rus- mate of Mr. Carter at the'Naval
sian military expansion=and the Academy at Annapolis. lie came
impact politically of that percep 25th out of the 820 cadets to
tion on others, including allies graduate in 1946 %%hen the 1'res-i-
-than on the actual- balance of dent ran 59th. They both put in
super power forces. for a Rhodes Scholarship, but the
Control. of Seas Admiral won it while Mr. Carter
Adm. Turner's view of the went - to submarine school
Russian - naval menace was set instead.
out in an article he wrote for ` Before going to Oxford, he had
the quarterly Foreign Affairs.. served in an aircraft carrier and
_-....... At Oxford he marl
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