THE CIA HAS BEEN RUN BY A CIVILIAN ALL OF ITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300090054-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: February 18, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEBRUARY I3
T~ThITE HOUSE PRESS SECP.ETARY
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EiE PRESIDENT
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od morning, Mr. President. I
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The CIA has been run by a civilian all of its
history except for at its girth. and now. 6ahy do you
have Sta~-~s Pield Turner, a military man, running the .CIA
with all of his ties to the Pentagon?
THE PRESIDEIdTe The legislation that originally
established the CIA specifically authorized the leadership
of either military officers or civilians. The only prohi-
bition is that both of the top two people cannot
be military officers. Stan Turner is one of the most
competent and brilliant and forceful leaders I have ever
known, He happens coincidentally to have been a classmate
of mine at Annapolis. I never knew him then personally.
He was so far above me in academics and in leadership
that I just admired him from a distance. He was a star .
football player. He was the top officer in the Naval
Academy Brigade of Tlidshipmen, and he was right at
the top of our class.
He was a Rhodes Scholar afterwards and
had a brilliant career in the Navy. He was one of
the first members of my class who ever made Admiral and
the: made four-stripe. Admiral. He was a leader, a
President of a Navy Isar College in Rhode Island, and
completely transforned a relatively dormant organization
into one that is vibrant and aggressive and very
beneficial now to the t7avy, to the armed forces and to our.
country.
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