TURNER TV REMARKS ON CIA, SOVIET AIMS CRITICIZED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300090017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 6, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~`~e~.t~ mere is 2 {:. T'4L:itiUn in thr? Amerii:an i;:?':;*: ^t C7U~~1? of S?Iee:S 2fter enteri.rl' ;;]'.."~Tl
ais duties 4 commander reports to his sunar?i.o ~. ^.clm Stans.+.'i:~ld I~.ir:,er, ;.r'.o ::as spent ~as~
of hL life at sea, deci~~ed rot to dtipa:^;; frc;^ this tradition a:: ~,i~- lam: either. Tiro
wee! after he took the chair a` director of the ~~~::^,, tine driral reported on t're state n:`
aI'f irS--?Z?Ov t0 I17.S super:~ors, tM.E, but to t';e ?:;ci''?:pus 2udienre of CFS televisionts
apace t.:e Nation" progr2r.
=nor a start S. Turner attempt?d to justify the CI:1 lea.derst:iu'> nrr~ctice of bribing
fo.rei~r: politicias (as ;.'ell as the bribing; of 'z*rerican conF;ress^er. by South ?Core2n
intelligance): "iribery is one thing, but aid 2nd support giti?-en to a friend are
soriethi.^.g else! ?'
'.IY:en the admiral assured his audience that the "morale and general mood of C:CA personnel
is quite goad nowe" Two days later the "good ;mood" i.n the CIA was fully displayed in a
report which the U.S, President sent to Congress, proposing to exp=nd the activity against
the socialist cotuztries by the subversive "I;iberty" and "Free l;urope" radio stations,
whiw are under CIA ,jurisdiction.
S. ~^urner evidently wanted to please his audience by saying that the CIA would no longer
spy on ?meriran citizens ~rrithin the country. Eat his compatriots know the worth of such
pY9?'liS eS .
Ptoving on .to international affairs, Adriiral S. Turner totall;~ perplexed his audience. On
the one hand, he tallied of sore kind of ?ecano*~ic, ideological and political weakness".
of the Soviet Union. And on .the other-even with all thsse "t~reaZalesses ?--he said that the
"correlation of forces is gradually chanit~g ir< favor of the So'riet side," ;which will
rot fail to take ad:~antage of this in ardor to e.Yert "political pressure on the rest
of the world,"
Tio, :F:dniral Turner did not turn. to "fade the i:2tion", he faced the past.
SE,i~"_~/' CO:~iTl`EE APPROVE P~ECORD T';11JITl~FtY BUilGET
Tdoscox TASS in English Og47 GT~iT b Apr 77 LD
(Textl t~lashington, April 6, T!=.SS-?-Tt:e Senate Budget Committee has satisfied in full
;.^,eas~,t_Te the request of the U.S. Government on allo~tin 111.9 billion dollars for
military purposes to the Pentagon in 1918. The senators approved Pentagon's spending by
a ;ra~oritg? vote for the development of the new weapons systems; such as "TIC" missiles,
cruise nlssiles and the t3-1 bomber, These allocations for military spending area record
in the U.S, history. In this connection the press notes that President Carter rejected
in fact his pre-election proc~ises to cut Pentagon's spending by 5-7 billion dollars. The
draft budget submitted by him to Congress is only 2-2.5 billion dollars less than the
one submitted by the Ford administration before resignation,