TURNER'S JOB WILL BE HARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100110025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 13, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Now that Adm. Stanfield Turner, director
of the CIA, has been designated to coordinate
the activities of all federal intelligence gath-
ering agencies -- including those in Cabinet
level departments - one can't help noting that
it was Turner himself who has lately been
telling some of the CIA's more embarrassing
secrets, including the fact - that prostitutes
were used in human behavior studies that also
involved a number of prestigious health care
and academic institutions.
But don't worry about his being just a blab-
bermouth. The admiral has probably merely
been practicing the kind of controlled candor
government officials, other politicians and
public relations people sometimes must - tell
`em what you've got to and make it sound
sincere and maybe nobody will notice you
didn't. tell the whole story.
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Also he may be using a little psychology in
titillating us with revelations about "Opera-
tion Midnight Climax" and "safe houses"
equipped like bordellos. It is well known that
by hollering "Sex!" you not only can get ev-
erybody's attention but also distract their
thoughts from whatever it was they were
going to ask about next. Thus some of the
CIA's darker and deeper secrets may be safe
from discovery for a while longer. And may
Heaven help us if they concern CIA activities
even more alarming than some we've heard
about in the last couple of years! - -
Well, Turner is taking over an unenviable
job. Maybe he can even weed out some of the
raunchier hanky-panky that we're beg
ginning.
to suspect goes on routinely in the intelligence
community-
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