Yeah, just like Stansfield Turner. Snicker.
Yeah, just like Stansfield Turner. Snicker.
Bill Gertz, BREAKDOWN: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, Regnery, 2002, page 63:
Turner, who had no professional experience with intelligence, decided to cut 820 positions within the CIA Operations Directorate. The cuts were announced in impersonal notices sent out on Halloween--October 31, 1977. "It has been decided that your services are no longer needed," the termination notes stated. For the Clandestine Service, the cuts were a blow from which it never recovered. Every director of Central Intelligence since then has tried in vain to "rebuild" the operational capability of the CIA.