Helms, Richard M

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<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The shah, Washington’s closest ally in the Persian Gulf, had fled Tehran in January 1979 in the face of a burgeoning uprising against his 38 years of iron-fisted rule. Liberals, leftists and religious conservatives were rallying against him. Strikes and demonstrations had shut down Tehran, and his security forces were losing control.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The shah sought refuge in America. But President Jimmy Carter, hoping to forge ties to the new government rising out of the chaos and concerned about the security of the United States Embassy in Tehran, refused him entry for the first 10 months of his exile. Even then, the White House only begrudgingly let him in for medical treatment.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now, a newly disclosed secret history from the offices of Mr. Rockefeller shows in vivid detail how Chase Manhattan Bank and its well-connected chairman worked behind the scenes to persuade the Carter administration to admit the shah, one of the bank’s most profitable clients.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For Mr. Carter, for the United States and for the Middle East it was an incendiary decision.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ensuing hostage crisis enabled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to consolidate his theocratic rule, started a four-decade conflict between Washington and Tehran that is still roiling the region and helped Ronald Reagan take the White House. To American policymakers, Iran became a parable about the political perils in the fall of a friendly strongman.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although Mr. Carter complained publicly at the time about the pressure campaign, the full, behind-the-scenes story — laid out in the recently disclosed documents — has never been told.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Rockefeller’s team called the campaign Project Eagle, after the code name used for the shah. Exploiting clubby networks of power stretching deep into the White House, Mr. Rockefeller mobilized a phalanx of elder statesmen.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They included Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state and the chairman of a Chase advisory board; John J. McCloy, the former commissioner of occupied Germany after World War II and an adviser to eight presidents as well as a future Chase chairman; a Chase executive and former C.I.A. agent, Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr., whose cousin, the C.I.A. agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr., had orchestrated a 1953 coup to keep the shah in power; and Richard M. Helms, a former director of the C.I.A. and former ambassador to Iran.</div>

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Alan's dash was not accompanied by business acumen. The Scaife Co. struggled under his command. When war broke out, Alan Scaife joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as an Army major. Richard Helms, Scaife's OSS colleague then and later director of central intelligence, remembers Scaife's flattering, tailor-made major's uniforms. "If you said anything about him, you'd say he was a lightweight," Helms recalled. After the war he returned to Pittsburgh.

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<table><tbody><tr><td width="78"> </td><td>Interviewed Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg as a reporter for UPI, covering the 1936 Olympics, joined the OSS under Allen Dulles in 1943, chief of operations CIA clandestine operations since 1952, instigated MK-ULTRA in 1953, director CIA in 1966, ordered by Kissinger to prevent Allende from coming to power in 1970, ambassador to the Shah's Iran 1973-1977, consultant to Bechtel on business in Iran, pleads guilty for perjury failing to testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the CIA overthrew Chile's Allende after which he is fined 2000 dollar.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913–October 22, 2002) was the <a title="Director of Central Intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligence">Director of Central Intelligence</a> (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to the <a title="United States Congress" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress">United States Congress</a> over <a title="Central Intelligence Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency">Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)</a> undercover activities. In 1977, he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remained a revered figure in the intelligence profession.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>] CIA historian <a class="mw-redirect" title="Keith Melton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Melton">Keith Melton</a> describes Helms as a professional who was always impeccably dressed and had a "low tolerance for fools."[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>]

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms#Life_and_career">1 Life and career</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms#Career_in_intelligence">1.1 Career in intelligence</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms#References">5 References</a></li>

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<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Life and career" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Helms&action=edit&section=1">edit</a>] Life and career</h2>

Helms was born in <a title="Philadelphia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> in 1913. In 1935, after he graduated from <a title="Williams College" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_College">Williams College</a> in <a title="Williamstown, Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamstown,_Massachusetts">Williamstown, Massachusetts</a>, he got a job at the <a title="United Press" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press">United Press</a> in London. The depression in London, however forced Helms to find work in Germany, where he covered the <a title="1936 Summer Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics">Berlin Olympic Games</a>; he had spent two of his high school years at the prestigious <a title="Institut Le Rosey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Le_Rosey">Institut Le Rosey</a> in <a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a> where he learned to speak <a title="French language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</a> and later Realgymnasium in Freiburg, where he became fluent in <a title="German language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language">German</a>. He joined the <a title="Advertising" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising">advertising</a> department of the <a title="Indianapolis Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Times">Indianapolis Times</a>; within two years he was national advertising manager.

<h3>[<a title="Edit section: Career in intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Helms&action=edit&section=2">edit</a>] Career in intelligence</h3>

A 23-year-old Helms interviewed <a title="Adolf Hitler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> for <a title="UPI" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPI">UPI</a> during the <a title="1936 Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Olympics">1936 Olympics</a>.

During <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a> Helms served in the <a title="United States Navy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy">United States Navy</a>. In 1943, he was posted to the <a title="Secret Intelligence Branch" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Branch">Secret Intelligence Branch</a> of the <a title="Office of Strategic Services" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> (OSS) because of his ability to speak German. In the aftermath of the war, he was transferred to the newly formed <a title="Office of Special Operations (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Office_of_Special_Operations&action=edit&redlink=1">Office of Special Operations</a> (OSO), where at the age of 33 he was put in charge of <a title="Intelligence (information gathering)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_%28information_gathering%29">intelligence</a> and <a title="Counter-intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-intelligence">counter-intelligence</a> operations in <a title="Austria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria">Austria</a>, <a title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</a>, and <a title="Switzerland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a>.

The OSO became a division of the CIA when that organization was created by the <a title="National Security Act of 1947" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947">National Security Act of 1947</a>. In 1962 Helms became <a title="Director of the National Clandestine Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_National_Clandestine_Service">Director of Plans</a> after the CIA's disastrous role in the attempted <a title="Bay of Pigs Invasion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion">invasion of Cuba</a>.

After falling out with the <a title="Kennedy political family" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_political_family">Kennedys</a>[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>], he was sent off to <a title="Vietnam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam">Vietnam</a> where he oversaw the coup to overthrow President <a title="Ngo Dinh Diem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem">Ngo Dinh Diem</a>. Following the <a title="John F. Kennedy assassination" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination">assassination of John F. Kennedy</a>, Helms was made Deputy Director of the CIA under Admiral <a title="William Raborn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raborn">William Raborn</a>. A year later, in 1966, he was appointed Director.

Richard Helms, in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968.</div>

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The ease of Helms's role under President <a title="Lyndon Johnson" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a> changed with the arrival of President <a title="Richard Nixon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> and Nixon's <a title="National security advisor" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_advisor">national security advisor</a> <a title="Henry Kissinger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a>. After the debacle of Watergate, from which Helms succeeded in distancing the CIA as far as possible, the Agency came under much tighter Congressional control. In January 1973, Nixon considered Helms to be better suited as the <a title="US ambassador" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_ambassador">US ambassador</a> to <a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran">Iran</a>, due to his good relations with the ruling <a title="Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Shah_Pahlavi">Shah</a>, in charge of the area in terms of observing the oil industry and issues relating to government stability<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms#cite_note-0">[1]</a>. Within weeks of being approached about this position, Helms left the office as Director of the CIA and served from 1973 to 1976 as US ambassador to Iran in <a title="Tehran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran">Tehran</a>.

Helms's ultimate undoing was the CIA's role, at Nixon's behest, in the subversion of <a title="Chile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile">Chile</a>'s <a title="Socialism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism">socialist</a> government (<a title="Project FUBELT" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT">Project FUBELT</a>), and the <a title="Chilean coup of 1973" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973">overthrow of that country's democratically elected president</a>, <a title="Salvador Allende" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende">Salvador Allende</a>, on September 11, 1973. According to Helms, Nixon had ordered the CIA to support a military coup to prevent Allende from becoming president in 1970. However, following the assassination of Army Commander-in-Chief General <a title="René Schneider" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Schneider">René Schneider</a> by elements of the military, public support swung behind Allende, and he took office in October 1970. Subsequently, the CIA funneled millions of dollars to opposition groups and striking truck drivers in a continuing effort to destabilize the Allende government.

During his ambassadorial confirmation hearings before the Senate, Helms was questioned concerning the CIA's role in the Chilean affair. Because the operations were still secret and the hearings were public events, Helms denied that the CIA had ever aided Allende's opposition. However, later information uncovered by the <a title="Church Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee">Church Committee</a> hearings showed that Helms's statements were false, and he was prosecuted and convicted in 1977. He received a two-year <a title="Suspended sentence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_sentence">suspended sentence</a> and a $2,000 fine.

In 1972, Helms ordered the destruction of most records from the huge <a title="Project MKULTRA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA">MKULTRA project</a>, over 150 CIA-funded research projects designed to explore any possibilities of <a title="Mind control" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control">mind control</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

The project became public knowledge two years later, after a <a title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times">New York Times</a> report.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>]

In 1983, President <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> awarded Helms the <a title="National Security Medal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Medal">National Security Medal</a>. After he died of <a title="Bone cancer" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_cancer">bone cancer</a> in 2002, Richard Helms was interred in <a title="Arlington National Cemetery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a> in <a title="Arlington, Virginia" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia">Arlington, Virginia</a>.

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<li><a title="Church Committee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee">Church Committee</a></li>

<li><a title="Family jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_jewels_%28Central_Intelligence_Agency%29">Family jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)</a></li>

<li><a title="Operation Mockingbird" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird">Operation Mockingbird</a></li>

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<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Further reading" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Helms&action=edit&section=4">edit</a>] Further reading</h2>

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<li>Helms, Richard, with <a title="William Hood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hood">William Hood</a>. A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency. New York: Random House, 2003.</li>

<li><a title="Thomas Powers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Powers">Powers, Thomas</a>. The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. New York: <a title="Alfred A. Knopf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf">Alfred A. Knopf</a>, 1979.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/helms.pdf">Richard Helms as Director of the CIA (PDF)</a> - Created by the CIA's History Staff, this 230 page book was released by the CIA in 2006. It offers an in-depth and detailed look into the life and operations of Richard Helms.</li>

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palast bk  says helms stopped Allende inaug at rmn order (request by pepsi's don kendall (but back to jfk) 93

ITT chile phone co $ to gop 94

<a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/a-marxist-threat-to-cola-sales-pepsi-demands-a-us-coup-goodbye-allende-hello-pinochet/">http://www.gregpalast.com/a-marxist-threat-to-cola-sales-pepsi-demands-a-us-coup-goodbye-allende-hello-pinochet/</a>

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family sues

"Every single factual assertion in this complaint is based on a document that has been furnished by the U.S. government," said Michael E. Tigar, the family's attorney.

The chain of events began Sept. 15, 1970, when Nixon met with Kissinger and Helms and ordered that action be taken to prevent Allende from assuming office after an election in which he had won the most votes. According to the lawsuit, Nixon said he was not concerned about risks and authorized $10 million to be spent on a military coup.

But military officials in Chile made clear that Chile's commander in chief, Schneider, would not go along with a coup, the suit said. The lawsuit said Kissinger and the CIA supported a secret plan to kidnap Schneider so that the military could take over before Allende's election could be approved by Chile's Congress.

On the morning of Oct. 22, 1972, after two aborted kidnapping attempts, Schneider was ambushed en route to work. The general's car was surrounded by about six cars, and struck from behind by one of them. The kidnappers smashed the back-seat windows on both sides. As Schneider was getting out his gun to defend himself, the assailants shot him. He died three days later at a military hospital, one day after Allende's victory was ratified.

Allende remained in power until a 1973 military coup that was indirectly supported by the CIA; he killed himself while under siege. Gen. Augusto Pinochet then began a 17-year reign in which thousands of people were killed or tortured. Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998 and indicted in Chile last year. But an appellate court recently suspended the legal proceedings because of concerns about his mental fitness for trial.

Military courts in Chile found that Schneider's death was caused by two military groups, one led by Roberto Viaux and the other by Camilo Valenzuela. Viaux and Valenzuela, both generals, were convicted of charges of conspiring to cause a coup, and Viaux also was convicted of kidnapping. The CIA aided both groups, the lawsuit said.

In a section of his autobiography entitled "The Coup That Never Was," Kissinger recounted the September 1970 meeting with Nixon and the plans to move forward with a secret coup agenda. He said there was less to the plan "than met the eye" because Nixon had a history of backing off plans as their implications became clearer.

Kissinger wrote that he ended the plan Oct. 15 and that Viaux's group acted on its own. He also wrote that no one, not even Viaux, ever intended to assassinate Schneider.

Peter Kornbluh, a Chile expert at the nonprofit <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/">National Security Archive</a>, who lobbied for full declassification of Chile documents, said the lawsuit could force Kissinger, Helms and others to provide more information about what took place.

"This crime was Chile's equivalent of the Kennedy assassination at the time," Kornbluh said. "It was an unparalleled, unprecedented act of political terrorism."

Kissinger has faced other recent scrutiny. In May, he declined to appear before a French judge who wanted to question him about allegations of human rights violations in Latin America during the 1970s. He referred the request to the State Department.

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