[PhilDragoo]

Maybe he's just an honorable man.

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.

[Grampa Dave]

Then, those who weren't fired in Turner's Halloween Surprise party were outed in the countries where they were by Turner via the Washington Post and other left wing mediots.

We had a close friend who was in Europe when he was outed by a Washington mediot in 1977. He and his family barely got out of Europe and harms way thanks to being outed by the mediot. His career as a field agent was over, and he retired from the Agency.