Richard Helms

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30th 1913 with Philadelphia - October 23rd 2002) was the director states-unien of the CIA of 1966 with 1973. He is the only director to be condemned for lie by the Congrès of the United States on the secret activities of the CIA.

Biography

In 1936, one year after it received its diploma of the Williams College with Williamstown in the Massachusetts, it is sent by the United Close for the cover of the Olympic Games of summer of 1936 to Berlin, because it had spent two years to the Institut Rosey, a prestigious college Suisse, where it learned how to speak German and French.

Thereafter, it joined the service of the Publicité Indianapolis Times . Two years later, he becomes national chief of publicity.

During the Second world war, it is useful in the Marine of the United States. In 1943, it is in station with OSS, because of the fact that it speaks German. The shortly after the war, it is transferred to the new whole OSO where, at the 33 years age, it is named responsible for the operations of information and against-espionage in Austria, in Germany and Suisse.

With the creation of the CIA by the National Security Act of July 1947, the OSO becomes a division of the CIA. After the disaster of the operation of the Bay of the Pigs to Cuba in 1961, Helms becomes director of the OSO. After having fallen with the Kennedy, it is sent to the Vietnam, where it supervises an attempt to reverse the president Ngo Dinh Diem. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Helms is named assistant editor of the CIA, under the direction of the admiral William Raborn. One year after in 1966, it is named director.

The facility to direct the CIA of the time of the presidency of Lyndon Johnson changes with the arrival of Henry Kissinger, adviser of the president Richard Nixon for the national security. After the rout of Watergate, the CIA is more narrowly supervised.

In 1972, Helms orders the destruction of the documents of the Projet MKULTRA, a regrouping of more than 150 research projects financed by the CIA, with for objective exploring all possibilities of mental handling and, more particularly, the development of a infallible Truth drug. The project is made available of the public two years after, following the revelations of the NewYork Times . Because of the destruction of an important part of the documents of the project, its true width is not known.

Nixon regards Helms as being unfair and mandate in 1973 does not renew. Helms is used as 1973 with 1976 as ambassador of the United States in Iran.

For this period, an American board of inquiry tries to determine the responsibility for various parts in an attempt, radio-controlled from the United States, to put an end to a democratic regime with the Chile in 1973. Helms is questioned by members of the American congress. It appears that its answers on the role of the CIA are false. Consequently, it is continued and condemned in 1977 to two one-year suspended sentences ( suspended sentence in English) and a fine of 2 000 dollars. Its fine was paid by friends of the CIA.

In 1983, the president Ronald Reagan allotted to Helms the National Security Medal (in French Médaille of national security ).

After its death in 2002, Richard Helms is buried with the national Cimetière of Arlington.

External bond

Role in bringing Saddam Hussein to power

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