CIA BOSS TELLS STANFORD AUDIENCE OF NEW OPENNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100130047-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: February 7, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEWS
San Jose, Calif.
7 February 1978
tells
audience of new op
STANFORD -- The director of the agency
that once was the target, of campus demon-
..strations received warm applause here.
-CIA Director Stansfield Turner, claiming
an 6istaric new sense of openness in Ameri-
.can intelligence opera-
tions, went before an
audience of Stanford
University - students
Monday night. and laid
himself open to a bar-
rage of tough. ques-
tions.
He was asked about
current covert activi-
ties by the CIA, the
training of secret po-
lice in South Africa
and Iran, and illegal
domestic spying.
STANSFIELD
.TURNER
Using a variety of k
blunt talk and glib wit,
Turner rebuffed. all
charges against the
Speaker
. - . And he got strong - ; -
applause for a partial defense of CIA activi-
ty in Chile under the Allende regime when
he told an abrasive. questioner .
"What you think went on there and what I
think went on there .are.. two,.different
things."
It was an unusual speech before a. college
audience by the head of the super-secret spy
agency, but one apparently. designed to pro-
mote the CIA's new image of openness
-Turner spent a half hourbefore the esti-
mated crowd of 2,000 at Kresge Auditorium
on campus outlining what--'he, has done in 10
months as head of. the CIA to change the
agency's image::'
have been under-
He said four big changes
taken.
The first, said .Turner, was to."shift thee:
product of intelligence" so that the-Soviet
Union's military secrets are no longer a sole
object of spying by `United. States agents. :.;
Today, said Turner, CIA agents are after!
military, economic, and political informa-
tion on nearly all of the -,150 countries
around the globe.
. ` "Today - we need to know what goes on
around the world and cover a' wider range o
topics and broader areas than ever before,"
said Turner.
"Our attitude toward interfering-in inter-
nal affairs also is changed. I don't say we
should eschew political action when it is in
the interest of the United States, but I do-
say it is better controlled," Turner said.
He said there has been much less emphas-
is placed on political action by CIA agents.
A second change, said Turner, is what h
called, "the production line."
He said the American spy has been the
basic element in intelligence gathering for
years.
"Now, we have advanced technical de-
vices to collect that information," said Turn-1
er. He said agents now must emphasize why
things are happening in other countries and ?
? what tomorrow will bring.
A third major change, he said, is "`ppen-
ne ss:"
He said the CIA today ? must submit its
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plans, to. unprecedented numbers of over
sight committees atthe federal level
Turner said he personally must subject
the CIA's programs to the scrutiny of the
"President, vice president, and eight'com= .
mittees of Congress as well as the National.
Security Council."4 ~..
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