Word: stansfield
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...also onto it but feared that first publication might jeopardize the release of hostages.) As for Oliver North, his shadowy activities with the contras have been noted sporadically in the press, but neither Congress nor the press ever aggressively looked into what he was up to. Why not? Admiral Stansfield Turner, who ran the CIA under Carter, believes "it was the popularity of the President that deterred the oversight committees and the press from pursuing the issue." Can it be that the press, like the Supreme Court, follows the election returns...
...broke the rules by setting its trap for a nondiplomat like Zakharov, and then by putting him in jail. Normally agents who are arrested are expelled or released to the Soviet Ambassador. "The Soviets don't like to have their spies put in jail," says former CIA Director Stansfield Turner. "Things won't get quiet until...
Little has changed since the late 1970s when President Derek C. Bok and then-CIA Director Stansfield Turner futilely tried to open a mutually beneficial window of cooperation between Harvard and the CIA. Professors still must submit to unreasonable restrictions if they wish to conduct research for the agency...
...blurb on the novel's jacket, the former CIA chief, Admiral Stansfield Turner, is quoted as saying, "(Clancy) makes you appreciate that decisions naval commanders on both sides may have to make in peacetime could lead the United States and the Soviet Union into war." Readers might well hope that the highly placed fans of The Hunt will keep the admiral's thought in mind...
There are some flaws in this record. What the CIA calls "human intelligence" has not yet recovered from the savage staff cuts carried out during the Carter Administration by Casey's predecessor, Stansfield Turner, who preferred to collect intelligence by electronic means. Casey did not have a single agent on Grenada until a few days before the American invasion last October, and could not provide an accurate estimate of the number of Cubans on the island. Casey takes special joy in having revived covert operations. He is said to have made several trips in unmarked planes to Honduras...