Former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner will lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7 in Reynolds Performance Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Turner graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944 and attained a commission in the United States Navy in June, 1946. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford while serving in the navy. During his naval career he served as commander of U.S. forces of Japan and Korea, as well as Southern Command of NATO. He served as president of Naval War College from 1972 to 1974 and was subsequently picked by President Jimmy Carter to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1977 to 1981. He was a member of the Monsanto board of directors. He is now a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park?s School of Public Policy.
Turner has written several books, including ?Secrecy and Democracy: CIA in Transition? and 2005?s ?Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence,? in which he advocates disbanding the CIA.
Event is co-sponsored by the Honors College, SGA, Young Democrats and Model UN.
