Word: stansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these arguments are fiercely disputed. Stansfield Turner, who was Carter's CIA director, contends that AWACS would hinder rather than increase Saudi security. As he wrote last week in the Washington Post: "There is no way they can absorb AWACS into their military structure without detracting from their primary concerns," which he defined as preparing to combat "insurrection and guerrilla warfare." Indeed, Turner claimed the Saudis' real reason for wanting AWACS is not military but political: "asking us to take an action that would be opposed by Israel" in order "to test whether we would eventually pressure Israel...
...levels; in fiscal 1980, 9,200 men and women asked for posts, for which 1,458 were hired. In addition to new hands, Casey is expected to bring back some of the talented oldtimers who were ousted in successive housecleanings during the past few years. The current director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, downgraded the importance of human beings in intelligence gathering on the scene. Says a veteran intelligence officer: "His big mistake was becoming intoxicated with our technical proficiency. It is a great instrument, but only an instrument." The agency has been particularly short of analysts in the world...
Wednesday morning brought one of the more solemn transition rituals: the passing on of intelligence secrets to the President-elect. CIA Director Stansfield Turner arrived at the Jackson Place town house, briefed Reagan for 90 minutes, and left stonefaced and silent; he knows that he will be replaced, probably by William J. Casey, Reagan's transition chairman, who sat in on the meeting. But the ritual had one touch of humor. Hurrying to the briefing, Bush bounded up the steps of 712 Jackson Place and began shaking hands with puzzled secretaries from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation before...
...began a transition that will pick up its pace this week, when the President-elect comes down from the Santa Ynez Mountains. Reagan was scheduled to fly to Washington Monday for the first of three weeklong visits before his Inauguration. At a CIA briefing he will tell Director Stansfield Turner that he will be replaced. On Thursday, Reagan will visit with the man he defeated so resoundingly Nov. 4. While their husbands confer, Rosalynn Carter will show Nancy Reagan around the White House living quarters...
...Senators wanted to know why Brzezinski felt free to use information from a classified CIA report in warning Billy that his actions in Libya might embarrass the Administration. Brzezinski explained that on receiving the damaging report from CIA Director Stansfield Turner, he pondered the matter over lunch in his office, then concluded that "I would serve the President better if I first admonished Billy." According to Brzezinski, the President later told him, "You did the right thing." There was no breach of security, said Brzezinski, nor did he risk revealing the source of the CIA's information. Said Brzezinski...