LETTER TO JUDITH H. SHREVE FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300050009-8
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 3, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

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Thank you for your letter of January 29th ~ ~d
for tt~e Upporteani ty tt~ contra bate to the annual cort-
ventien issue ofSignal" ~ac~azine. Pleatse fir-d
enclased a short statement and ph4tog~rapt~, as you
reGaested.
Many thanks again for tf~inking of rte.
Yours sincerely,
Js/ Si;ansfield Turner
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I am very pleased once again to have an opportunity to make
brief comments in the annual AFCEA convention issue of SIGNAL magazine.
As I noted last year, the Intelligence Community has ever increasing
reliance on communications and data processing systems. These growing
demands have been in the past and continue even more so to be fueled
by the increasingly volatile international scene.
In the last several years, we have placed increasing emphasis on
intelligence support to U.S. military forces. Some of our strategic
intelligence systems have direct application to the military theater
and even tactical intelligence requirements. Such applications again
bring to the fore the need for effective communications and associated
processing systems. This past year has seen significant progress on
these matters including enhanced and direct interactions between key
personnel in the Intelligence Community and senior officers in the
various U&S Commands.
Our strategic intelligence capabilities are truly impressive.
Achieving these capabilities would not have been possible without the
closest possible support from the military services and the industrial
sector. Our ability to-meet the challenges of the future will depend
even more critically on maintaining and enhancing the understandings and
the support, both within the military command structures and the
industrial sector.
In order to accomplish our future goals we will be compelled to
develop innovative strategies which will balance our technical collection
activities involving electronics and computers, and our capability to
communicate reliably over great distances and in a vride variety of ways.
It is vital that these two important endeavors complement and enhance
each other.
In the period ahead we will not only continue our efforts in the
traditional strategic military intelligence arena, but we will also
increase our attention to significant global concerns affecting our
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relations with all nations in such areas as economics, food resources,
energy, population growth, narcotics, international terrorism, tech-
nology transfer and a host of other important topics. Such a breadth
of intelligence interests-will strain our desire for fiscal restraint
and challenge us to find new and novel solutions.
Our reliance on systems and equipment produced by companies
associated with AFCEA is ever increasing and is vital to our effec-
tiveness. Continued close working relationships with the Air Force
as well as other elements of the Defense Department are of critical
importance. 4Je value this teamwork and support very highly and will
continue to depend on them to meet the challenges of the future.