STATEMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE (D.-HAWAII), CHAIRMAN SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: February 22, 1977
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STATEMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE (D-HAWAII), CHAIRMAN
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
AT THE OPENING OF HEARINGS ON THE NOMINATION OF
ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER
TO BE DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
STAT
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holds hearings
today on the nomination of. Admiral Stansfield Turner to be
Director of Central Intelligence.
Timely and accurate intelligence is a major means of
preserving the peace and constitutes our first line of defense.
For these reasons alone the-post of Director of Central Intelligence
is one of the most important in the United States Government.
Accurate intelligence and rigorous analysis of that information
will play a critical role in the forthcoming Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks, the possibilities for peace in the Middle East,
and the viability of the NATO Alliance. In all of our relation-
ships throughout the world, our national intelligence system will
play an invaluable part.
The national intelligence system requires a leader that
will be able to direct the activities of many highly complex
organizations in the national intelligence community such as
the National Security Agency,`elements in the Department of Defense,
as.well as CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the counter-
intelligence activities of the FBI and the intelligence functions
of the Departments of State, Treasury, and a number of other De-
partments and Agencies. The position of the Director of Central
Intelligence requires a man with the ability to manage, to set
priorities, and allocate resources. In order to carry out this