Nomination of Richard Helms to be Ambassador to Iran and CIA International and Domestic Activities: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session. February 5 and 7 and May 21, 1973

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 109 sider
 

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Side 62 - That the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure...
Side 39 - ... (4) to perform, for the benefit of the existing intelligence agencies, such additional services of common concern as the National Security Council determines can be more efficiently accomplished centrally ; (5) to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct...
Side 39 - We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.
Side 78 - It has been called to my attention that in 1969 or 1970 the White House asked that all intelligence agencies join in the effort to learn as much as they could about the antiwar movement and during this period US Army Intelligence became involved and kept files on US citizens. Do you know anything about any activity on the part of CIA in that connection?
Side 39 - I never had any thought when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment that I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious...
Side 18 - The Board is authorized, on a reimbursable basis when appropriate, to use the available services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of the Department and of other civilian or military agencies and instrumentalities...
Side 18 - It is therefore the declared policy of the Congress to assist State and local governments in strengthening and improving law enforcement at every level by national assistance.
Side 39 - Some of the complications and embarrassment that I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue and a subject for Cold War enemy propaganda.
Side 39 - The facts are that the CIA has never carried out any action of a political nature, given any support of any nature to any persons, potentates or movements, political or otherwise, without appropriate approval at a high political level...
Side 83 - Ehrlichman's office at the White House. Present were Mr. Ehrlichman, Mr. Haldeman, Mr. Helms and myself. As I recall it, Mr. Haldeman said that the Watergate incident was causing trouble and was being exploited by the opposition. It had been decided at the White House that I would go to Acting FBI Director Gray and tell him that now that the five suspects were arrested, further inquiries into the Mexican aspects of this matter might jeopardize some of the CIA's covert activities in that area. An...

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