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Helms' difficulties date back to 1973, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was weighing his nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Iran. Twice the committee quizzed him in closed sessions about covert U.S. efforts to prevent Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970. Twice Helms in effect lied...
...Bond's legendary boss who sent 007 on his journeys down the world's back alleys. But even in the courtroom last week where Helms was given his $2,000 fine and suspended sentence for misleading Senators about the CIA's efforts to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile, there was the smell of adventure about...
...larger questions attending the Helms case that clearly justified a fullfledged indictment and trial of the one-time Nixon enforcer. An unprecedented trial of Helms would have gone a long way towards completely fleshing out the fragmented story of CIA intervention in Chile during the administration of Salvador Allende. And the prospect of seeing Helms squirming under the rigors of cross-examination would have dramatized the issue of the executive branch's accountability to Congress as no criminal case could, short of bringing his former commander-in-chief from his San Clemente hermitage to the witness stand...
...prospect of handling down an unprecedented indictment of a former CIA director on serious perjury charges daunted the Justice Department from the very beginning in 1973 when Helms lied about CIA involvement in plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post...
Henry Kissinger is the man responsible for the scorched earth policy that left large portions of Vietnam uninhabitable-portions still unfit as places to live. Kissinger widened the Vietnam war into Laos and Cambodia. Kissinger headed the destablization effort that toppled the freely elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. And Kissinger lied about all these crimes, not just to the press, but to Congress and the American people as well...