THE ADMIRAL AND HIS NEW-LOOK CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300030012-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 16, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Turner decided not: to rehire Angleton,
who had been compromised by the public
debate. But, the. new director did. move. ..a
man he calls."one of my oldest and most
trusted aides,,:,Torn Williams, into the
counterintelligenceslot.-Do the reports of
a mole give hini pause?-Turner said he's
"convinced". the. stories-am false, but
-feels that the-public debate they've'.,.
caused justifie -en-increasingly.- important
and visible role for counterintelligence.-
There will be, he made clear;, no- let-up in
spying: on the spies... -
:;;turner musthaveknowrt.hcwould-be?
facing a decidedly mixed'receptio t,th
'-Kennedy SchooLHis.opeirfeud`._wit
,-:Harvard President B&kove 'the`'
university's guidelines.fosfaculty;
contracts-wick the .rKlttuill :
guaranteed: hiiv`somG tLOStils questions
(In the event-several observers- noted, -
there weM feweisfliaia eiepectedj'V
The 'guirsent--lietweeeritTurner-and- :
-Harvard is; simple_?he-university
requires that:an} faculty ember who'
engages to do-vr[ork.for- theagency-report
this fact to the dean- of his~or her-faculty
(public-disclosure-is-notissue,. nly
notification. with ?the!^Iarvard,
community}:-Tamer contends that this
rifle is clearl)p`discnminatoiy;:'since it:
applies to-no~other-agencty;_andrefuses`?
either to ratify'the guideline or'-to enforce
it? from his-end: "If a~Harvard' professor
chooses?to-keep- his. CIA ?:contractsecret
from the:grriversity,=wee' iltnot=require
him'or her-,to abide by thrguideline'as-a
prerequisite- for, doing thejbb. contracted
for" he -told the Kenned-j School'
audience. In~artswer to.a related question,
hereplied'tesn " We-haveour rules and
you have yours;' yotrwouldn'~want
beliiveme'a be' bound byours, and we -
refuse similarly"CC-.be`boiind`by yours.
Although: this`--w evidently=the; matter
under discussion ar the'Bek-Turner
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acis clear;'howe 'er th3t'Tumer s, real *=
`objechon=isknol'to the gu defines as they
stand bu t'7to- possible latef=versionts that _;.
would?foice'tlie university- td- pubflci~z
the faculty-CIA work. -
This sort of trouble-writhone academic =
community is, of course, not to be
compared with the?storm of criticism
ficed_by.Turner's predecessor's. That's
what being born again is all about. In the
time=since Turner was chosen to. head- the
CIA', we can point. to no new scandal, no
new abuse of power-like the ones revealed
by Sen. Frank Church's Select Committee
on Intelligence. Which does not mean.
that none has occurred, just that none has
come to light
categorically :that no covert' operations
have been conducted recently. He would-
say ; that'the-relevant- committees. of
Congress-would: have been notified, use-
posed (butnot
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et passed)legislative charters for., intelligence agencies, _if any had been ',
...-Turner may be-the most open'ande