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...with sufficient skill, Carter enlisted about a dozen veteran foreign policy experts to study the impasse and suggest possible ways of ending it. Seven of these "wise men," as they were called by Carter aides, got to work almost immediately. Headed by Clark Clifford, the group also included John McCone, McGeorge Bundy and John McCloy, all of whom served as advisers to Kennedy and Johnson; David Packard of the Nixon Administration; Brent Scowcroft of the Ford Administration; and Sol Linowitz, a longtime presidential consultant who most recently was chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties...
Helms, who was CIA liaison to the Warren Commission, admitted to the committee that he had not told the commission about the Castro assassination plots, but, noting that John McCone was then CIA director, he asked: "Why single me out as the guy who should have told the Warren Commission?" Did he now believe that he should have informed the commission? Helms, who grew short-tempered as the committee grilled him for seven hours, replied: "Yes, I should have backed up a truck and taken all the documents down to the commission...
...referred them to the chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services and Appropriations subcommittees, which had oversight duties. "I have never heard of a case where the director failed to answer the questions of our oversight committees," insists Pforzheimer. "I know Dick lived up to that." John A. McCone, who directed the agency from 1961 to 1965, agrees that Helms' mistake was in consenting to testify on sensitive CIA matters before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was not one of the oversight committees. Some sources suggest that Helms so badly wanted to become Ambassador to Iran that...
...McCone feels that CIA intelligence must be kept free of influence from the military and other policymakers...
COVERT OPERATIONS. Some critics have suggested that covert operations should be run independently of the CIA -or, in the view of the most radical critics, done away with altogether -leaving the agency to handle only normal intelligence gathering and assessment. McCone dislikes the idea. "I would be afraid that in order to make its mission more totally rewarding, an independent operations side would create undertakings quite beyond necessity. It wouldn't have a hell of a lot to do, so it would think up a whole lot of dirty tricks. The Bay of Pigs was very highly compartmentalized...