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Helms: Yeah, but what were you going to do about them? Were you going to take them up to the [Shah's] Niavaran Palace and say "Here's a fellow that's objecting to you, Boss, now do something about it"?
Helms: That's right, but there are ways of doing that without raising this issue of carrying two policies at the same time.
Bill's views on seeking out potential leaders led to a spirited exchange with Helms:
Helms: Jim, it is fine to say that, but the minute you're in touch with them, and you're an official representative of the United States Government, it entails a commitment, and that is the hardest thing I know to control. I have been a practitioner of...
Helms was hinting at establishing usable covert contacts. At other times, he spoke approvingly of covert operations, and how the lack of them today has limited U.S. options. Helms urged that "we go back to some of those good old dirty days when we had an arsenal of things that...