Word: stansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Others: Economists John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Samuelson and Lester Thurow; Carter Administration officials Patricia Roberts Harris, James Schlesinger and Stansfield Turner; Poet Allen Ginsberg; former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy; and CIA nemesis Philip Agee...
Meanwhile, pressure built on Capitol Hill for an immediate redeployment, if not outright withdrawal, of the Marines. House Democratic leaders met to re-examine their support of a measure that allows the Marines to stay in Lebanon until April 1985, while three former CIA chiefs, Stansfield Turner, James Schlesinger and William Colby, urged that the men at least be moved from the Beirut airport. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who firmly backed the Marines' extension last fall: "Patience is wearing very thin. There is no way we are going to be idle if the President doesn...
...director under Jimmy Carter, Admiral Stansfield Turner established the Publications Review Board, in essence a censorship committee within the agency to ensure that no secrets crept into print in the writings of former agents. It was Turner who was responsible for the civil prosecution of Frank W. Snepp, whose 1977 book, Decent Interval, a critical study of the agency's role in Viet Nam, was published without prior CIA review, in violation of his contract with the agency. In February 1980, the Supreme Court ordered Snepp to hand over profits from his book to the Government. So far, that...
...wake of these revelations, the CIA carried out a draconian house-cleaning program. Stansfield Turner, director under President Carter, cut more than 800 jobs, leaving the agency to concentrate on the task of intelligence collection and assessment. An Executive order signed by President Carter prohibited involvement in assassination attempts, and Congress passed a law requiring the Executive Branch to certify that any anticipated intelligence activity was considered "important to the national security." By the time Reagan took office, the CIA had fewer than 200 clandestine operatives, compared to the more than 2,000 in the heyday of the 1960s...
...that the Revolutionary Council would never act and that the hostages were not going to be released. I decided to act. On April 11, my top advisers and I went over the rescue plans again. In the Cabinet Room with me were Mondale, Brown, Brzezinski, Christopher, Central Intelligence Director Stansfield Turner, General David Jones, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. (Vance was on a brief and much needed vacation.) Because the militants had threatened to "destroy all the hostages immediately" if any additional moves against them should be launched, we had to plan any action with the utmost care. General Jones...