TURNER DEFENDS CIA FOREIGN INFLUENCE ACTIVITY
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The CIA, which has been critic-
ized for its efforts to influence polit-
ical events in foreign countries,
must retain the potential to do so,
CIA Director Stansfield Turner told
a Stanford University audience
Monday night.
But such actions should be taken
"more judiciously" and "with
greater control,"Turner said.
"I'm not in the business of push-
ing covert action," Turner told one
questioner from the audience. He
said he wants to retain the potential
for covert actiop, however, as one
alternative action.
As an example, he said that if a
terrorist group were to obtain a nu-
clear weapon, he would feel it nec-
essary to have available a plan of
covert action in case the United
States needed to use it,
Turner addressed a packed audi-
ence of about 800 people at Kresge
Auditorium in the Stanford School
of Law. His speech was sponsored
by the student government, the
Hoover Institution and the law so-
ciety.
There were some anti-CIA dem-
onstrators who staged a brief
"guerrilla theatre" skit during the
question and answer period, The
skit was booed. In general, Turner's
appearance was without major in-
cident.
Turner told the audience that the
CIA's responsibilities are greater
thad ever before, in these times of
military parity with the Soviet
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Despite criticism in recent years
of the CIA's role, Turner said the
country is now "turning the cor-
ner" and "taking a constructive at-
titude toward intelligence." He be-
lieved the CIA will be able to con-
duct its activities "within the con-
fines of our democratic standards."
Turner criticized Daniel Ells-
berg, who leaked to the media the
,Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam
War. He said that by extension, if
every citizen felt he could make an
individual judgment on what
.should be classified and what
should not, the result would be
"chaos."
However many of Turner's lis-
teners applauded at the mention of
Ellsberg's name.
"It is time for this country to re-
turn to where the public places a
modicum of confidence in its public
and elected officials," Turner com-
mented.
In answer to questions from the
audience, Turner said he has ap-
proved some CIA covert activities,
with the permission of the presi-
dent and the oversight committees,
The covert actions, l e said, were
"not that exciting
He declined to say whether he
believed past CIA actions in Chile
against the Allende government
were justified. 'Turner said it is
clear the CIA has done things in the
past which have met with public
approval, and some which have
not. He said he would neither
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