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This week we also take an unprecedented look at a normally hidden world-the Central Intelligence Agency, which until recently kept its doors tightly shut to journalists and news photographers. It tried to be almost as invisible in Washington as overseas. Says Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who reported part of our story and who has also worked in Eastern Europe and Moscow: "Even inside the embassies, it was taboo to mention...
...agency, hurt by revelations of its abuses of power both abroad and at home, is on a much needed public relations campaign. Of greater significance, the CIA is sailing on more open waters under its new director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, 53. As he told TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Bruce Nelan in an interview, "We operate well when the public is well informed. The information we have which need not be classified should be in the public domain. The public has paid...
...salesmanship will be useless unless the CIA improves its product. And while the CIA's shrouded world of spies and its secret efforts to influence political events abroad have been widely criticized, its more basic function of supplying reliable intelligence has been faulty too. TIME'S Talbott and Nelan asked top officials in the White House, State Department and Defense Department who regularly receive CIA analyses to grade the agency's work. The report card...
This series of concessions was a key element of Vance's negotiating tactics. Reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott from Geneva: "There was a consensus among American policymakers that the U.S. made a mistake by putting the Kremlin on the defensive before and during Vance's mission to Moscow. Therefore the Americans decided to. let the Soviets recapture some initiative and prestige. By yielding on procedure, protocol and publicity, U.S. officials hoped for a trade-off in the form of greater Soviet flexibility and receptivity at the negotiating table...
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance settled into a rocking chair in his hideaway study on the seventh floor of the State Department and discussed the Moscow SALT talks with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden. Vance angrily denied that Soviet-American relations were now at their lowest point in years, stoutly defended the Administration 's "public diplomacy" and stressed that much in fact had been accomplished at the Moscow meeting. Excerpts from the interview...