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Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, by Admiral Stansfield Turner (Houghton Mifflin, 304 pp., $16.95)

Intelligence has always been considered the orphan child of the military, the place where one’s career stagnates, and when President Carter appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner Director of Central Intelligence in 1977, it was widely rumored that Turner believed his career had been short-circuited. Turner confirms his disappointment in the opening chapter of Secrecy and Democracy and, perhaps unconsciously, leads the reader to believe that he never got over it.

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Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, by Admiral Stansfield Turner (Houghton Mifflin, 304 pp., $16.95)

Intelligence has always been considered the orphan child of the military, the place where one’s career stagnates, and when President Carter appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner Director of Central Intelligence in 1977, it was widely rumored that Turner believed his career had been short-circuited. Turner confirms his disappointment in the opening chapter of Secrecy and Democracy and, perhaps unconsciously, leads the reader to believe that he never got over it.