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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...
...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...