Stansfield Turner
Naval officer and former United States Director of Central IntelligenceWikipedia
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Nov 5, 2026
Chuck OchelliHOST
You know, you had a president there who was actually a real person for a second and he made mistakes and believe me, was in on some of the greater powers that should not be counsel on foreign relations, people all over the place, this kind of stuff, you know, having way too much influence.
Chuck OchelliHOST
But he also put Stansfield Turner into the CIA, which, you know, was an attempt to do something.
Chuck OchelliHOST
But overall, did not really change the culture of the agency in a in a major way, in a long standing way.
Chuck OchelliHOST
And they just resisted him.
speaker_1CORRESPONDENT
It had 38 passengers, two pilots, five flight attendants on board.
speaker_2CORRESPONDENT
You heard it from former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner and two experts on international terrorism.
speaker_2CORRESPONDENT
Our lives will never be the same again.
speaker_2CORRESPONDENT
Everything about aviation, everything we do in this country will change from this day forward.
William CooperHOST
Notice the tone of all this, ladies and gentlemen.
William CooperHOST
It's so obvious that everything is going to change in this country after today that even the reporters, without any input from anybody, are making those observations themselves.
William CooperHOST
You're hearing it from officials like Admiral Stansfield Turner and congressmen and senators and many other people have already made this statement.
William CooperHOST
That freedom is out the window.
Stansfield TurnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I will... say again though that it's a very tough...
William CooperHOST
Now let me tell you folks, that's Admiral Stansfield Turner.
William CooperHOST
If when I was in the Office of Naval Intelligence, I was able to put my hands on and read Operation Majority... which was the plan to bring about world government after terrorist attacks exactly like this, strip the freedoms from the American people, then I know full well that Admiral Stansfield Turner also saw and read those documents and knew exactly what was going to happen before it did.
William CooperHOST
He said it was a very sophisticated operation, and of course it is.
William CooperHOST
Exactly like the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, there had to be placed shaped charges on the main reinforced concrete structural members of the world.
William CooperHOST
The reporters have been saying it.
William CooperHOST
Admiral Stansfield, Turner said it.
William CooperHOST
Major Rudy Giuliani said it.
William CooperHOST
Everybody is saying
TracyHOST
And the money always leaves a trail, right? So, on August 3rd, 1977, the Senate holds a hearing.
TracyHOST
CIA Director Stansfield Turner testifies.
TracyHOST
The 149 projects, the 80 plus institutions, the testing on people who didn't know.
TracyHOST
It's all on record.
Kirk FansherGUEST
suspend this belief partially for a while and look at what would it take to get to global zero.
Kirk FansherGUEST
And something that informed my thinking on this back in 1997 was Admiral Stansfield Turner came to Yale.
Kirk FansherGUEST
So that's why I'm bringing the hat.
Kirk FansherGUEST
Came to the law school at Yale and gave our class a, conducted a seminar on nuclear arms reduction.
Liz GouldGUEST
George, the senior, yeah, the senior.
Liz GouldGUEST
Yeah, well, he had Stansfield Turner, okay, as head of...
Liz GouldGUEST
No, that was Carter.
Liz GouldGUEST
Carter, I know, but George Bush was CIA head before Turner took over.
Paul FitzgeraldGUEST
So,
John LoftusGUEST
yeah.
John LoftusGUEST
well you know i talked to uh stansfield turner and i agree completely i was looking at a case where we were bringing in nasty muslim brotherhood terrorists into the u.s under the special cia treaty turner didn't know a word about it or about iran he was completely in the jet i had read his classified files and he had not he just hadn't seen them so i think you're right the one who did was dick cheney
Liz GouldGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Think of that.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They denied this program, but when they were, you know, getting funding, lo and behold, the interviewer pushed and Stansfield Turner admitted that the program was funded, but just by the Navy.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then it was decommissioned.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the interviewer pushed back and said, you know, I know it was part of MKUltra under the CIA.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then Stansfield Turner also said, well, the CIA, you know, took it over.
Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But then the moment we took it over, we decommissioned it.
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Mark VictorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That Stanford knew that they could do research in Germany that they couldn't do in the United States.