Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he rose in its ranks during the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon,[1] yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973.
As a professional, Helms highly valued information gathering (favoring the interpersonal, but including the technical, obtained by espionage or from published media) and its analysis while prizing counterintelligence. Although a participant in planning such activities, Helms remained a skeptic about covert and paramilitary operations. Helms understood the bounds of the agency role as being able to express strong opinions over a decision under review yet working as a team player once a course was set by the administration. It was the duty of the DCI to keep official secrets from press scrutiny. While working as the DCI, Helms managed the agency following the lead of his predecessor John McCone. In 1977, as a result of earlier covert operations in Chile, Helms became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress. Helms’s last post in government service was Ambassador to Iran from April 1973 to December 1976. Besides this Helms was a key witness before the Senate during its investigation of the CIA by the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, 1975 being called the “Year of Intelligence”.[2][full citation needed] This investigation was hampered severely by Helms having ordered the destruction of all files related to the CIA’s mind control program in 1973.[3]
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March 30 is very close to April 1 1913 birth. Feb 20 Nov 18 Dec 13 April 1 June 6 July 4 August 4.
March 30, 1913 Helms is born.
President Kennedy said he would only back action against Cuba if Cuba tried to export revolution. November 19 1963 days before the JFK assassination Helms and another CIA employee asserted to Attorney Genearl Robert F. Kennedy Cuba had stockpile of Belgian machine guns carefully hiding the removed Cuban military logos and the CIA FBI now had some of these weapons to study by chemically for a moment bringing back Cuban insignia. p. 468
Lisa Peace, A Lie To Big To Fail. the Assasination of RFK
The FN MAG is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique Nationale by Ernest Vervier. It has been used by more than 80 countries and it has been made under licence in several countries, including Argentina, Canada, Egypt, India and the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
Muzzle velocity: 840 m/s (2,756 ft/s)
Designed: 1950
Length: 1,263 mm (49.7 in)
Mass: 11.8 kg (26.01 lb)
Action: Gas-operated long-stroke piston, open bolt
Cartridge: 7.62×51mm NATO
Effective firing range: 800 m (875 yd) (bipod); 1,800 m (1,969 yd) (tripod)
The MAG Model 60-20 is an automatic, air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun, firing belt-fed7.62×51mm NATO from an open bolt. The MAG uses a series of proven design concepts from other successful firearms, for example the locking mechanism is modeled on that of the Browning M1918 (BAR)automatic rifle, which FN produced under license with some adaptions, and the feed and trigger mechanisms are from the WW II-era MG 42 universal machine gun.[11]
Very close to the M2 I assert might have been used by the Three Hobos. If the Hobos had been caught with the Belgian weapon, it could be said Cuba was behind what was really the CIA plot.
So Robert F. Kennedy would suspect.
The Belgian weapon could have produced the bloody nose one of hobos (Tramps) had.
Early career[edit]
Helms began his career in intelligence by serving in the war-time Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Following the allied victory, Helms was stationed in Germany[1] serving under Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner.[citation needed] In late 1945, President Truman terminated the OSS. Back in Washington, Helms continued similar intelligence work as part of the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), later called the Office of Special Operations (OSO). During this period, Helms focused on espionage in central Europe at the start of the Cold War, and took part in the vetting of the German Gehlen spy organization. The OSO was incorporated into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) when it was founded in 1947.
In 1950 Truman appointed General Walter Bedell Smith as the fourth director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The CIA became established institutionally within the United States Intelligence Community. DCI Smith merged the OSO (being mainly espionage, and newly led by Helms) and the rapidly expanding Office of Policy Coordination under Wisner (covert operations) to form a new unit to be managed by the deputy director for plans (DDP). Wisner led the Directorate for Plans from 1952 to 1958, with Helms as his Chief of Operations.
In 1953 Dulles became the fifth DCI under President Eisenhower. John Foster Dulles, Dulles’ brother, was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State. Under the DDP Helms was specifically tasked in the defense of the agency against the threatened attack by Senator Joseph McCarthy, and also in the development of “truth serum” and other “mind control” drugs per the CIA’s controversial Project MKUltra. From Washington, Helms oversaw the Berlin Tunnel, the 1953–1954 espionage operation which later made newspaper headlines. Regarding CIA activity, Helms considered information obtained by espionage to be more beneficial in the long run than the more strategically risky work involved in covert operations, which could backfire politically. Under his superior and mentor the DDP Wisner, the CIA marshaled such covert operations, which resulted in regime change in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954 and interference in the Congo in 1960. During the crises in Suez and Hungary in 1956 the DDP Wisner became distraught by the disloyalty of allies and the loss of a precious cold-war opportunity. Wisner left in 1958. Passing over Helms, DCI Dulles appointed Richard Bissell as the new DDP, who had managed the U-2 spy plane.
During the Kennedy presidency, Dulles selected Helms to testify before Congress on Soviet-made forgeries. Following the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy appointed John McCone as the new DCI, and Helms then became the DDP. Helms was assigned to manage the CIA’s role in Kennedy’s multi-agency effort to dislodge Castro. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, while McCone sat with the president and his cabinet at the White House, Helms in the background supported McCone’s significant contributions to the strategic discussions. After the 1963 coup in South Vietnam, Helms was privy to Kennedy’s anguish over the killing of President Diem. A month later Kennedy was assassinated. Helms eventually worked to manage the CIA’s complicated response during its subsequent investigation by the Warren Commission.[4]
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