LETTER TO JACK VALENTI FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300090052-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: January 24, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2007/03/01 : CIA-RDP9
Central Intelligence Agency
24 January 1978
Dear Jack,
Just read your very helpful item in the Star standing up fora.
us and the FBI. My thanks for this public support which, unfortunately,.
stands out in its uniqueness.
The media, in its usual way, is busy looking for all the problems
and controversies and overlooking the accomplishments and plans. Despite
what they say of the problems out here at the Agency, things are moving
along nicely. I am making those changes which seem essential at this
time despite the fact they are upsetting to some of the old hands, but.
we most move ahead. The personnel management policies here simply have
not been bringing along the younger talent that we need and we must
clean out enough to make room at the top or we simply will not have
the CIA in five or ten years. All in all, there's broad consensus
within the Agency on the directions we are going. It will just take
time to calm people down.
The kind of support you've given us, however, will help a great
deal in doing.just that. The Agency has been so battered by criticism
over the years that it is hypersensitive today.
.Again, many thanks and all the best.
Mr. Jack Valenti
President
motion Picture Association
of America,. Inc. -
1600 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006.
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