Stansfield Turner

Stansfield Turner
Turner in 1983
12th Director of Central Intelligence
In office March 9, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Deputy	E. Henry Knoche John F. Blake Frank Carlucci
Preceded by	George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by	William J. Casey
37th President of the Naval War College
In office June 30, 1972 – August 9, 1974
Preceded by	Benedict J. Semmes Jr.
Succeeded by	Julien LeBourgeois
Personal details
Born	(1923-12-01)December 1, 1923 Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died	January 18, 2018(2018-01-18) (aged 94) Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Resting place	United States Naval Academy Cemetery
Spouses	Patricia Busby Whitney ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1984)​ Eli Karin Tjelta ​ ​ (m. 1985; died 2000)​ Marion Levitt Weiss ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	2
Education	Amherst College U.S. Naval Academy (BS) Exeter College, Oxford (BA)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Navy
Years of service	1946–1978
Rank	Admiral
Commands	USS Conquest USS Rowan USS Horne U.S. Second Fleet Allied Forces Southern Europe
Battles/wars	World War II Korean War Vietnam War

Stansfield Turner (December 1, 1923 – January 18, 2018) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as President of the Naval War College (1972–1974), commander of the United States Second Fleet (1974–1975), Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern Europe (1975–1977), and was Director of Central Intelligence (1977–1981) under the Carter administration. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and the United States Naval Academy, Turner served for more than 30 years in the Navy, commanding warships, a carrier group, and NATO's military forces in southern Europe, among other commands.

Turner was appointed to lead the CIA by Jimmy Carter in 1977 and undertook a series of controversial reforms, including downsizing the Agency's clandestine arm and emphasizing technical intelligence collection over human intelligence. He also oversaw the CIA's responses to the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet–Afghan War. After leaving the CIA in 1981, Turner entered the private sector, authored several books, and criticized subsequent administrations, including the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. He was a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park's School of Public Policy.