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Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell hit on that solution after months of bargaining with Helms and his attorney, the celebrated Edward Bennett Williams.
Helms' lawyer maintained that if his client went to trial on more serious charges, an adequate defense would require that national secrets be divulged. This was an ironic shift: throughout his long career Helms had taken many risks-even putting his life on the line when he had been...
Bell took the threat seriously. He told Williams that if Helms would plead nolo contendere (no contest)-in reality an admission of guilt-to the misdemeanors, the Justice Department would support Helms' insistence that his accumulated federal pension rights be protected, and would recommend that he not be imprisoned...
After Helms agreed to cop the plea and all details were worked out, the Justice Department whisked him into the federal courtroom of Judge Barrington D. Parker in Washington without notice. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti presented a three-page "statement of facts" to which Helms had agreed.
In essence it said that when Helms testified on Feb. 7, 1973, and March 6, 1973, he was fully aware that the CIA in 1970 had secretly funded anti-Allende propaganda, financed groups opposed to Allende, applied economic pressure on Chilean military forces to thwart Allende's selection, and...