CIA'S NEW CHIEF A DETERMINED PRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

AND TIMES HERALD
JUN 2 7 1966 't.
,'CIA's New
A Determined Pro,
_ w vv,ucu 117 n s; a is said to have had a lot to do with
now been named. The . argument w s, he U2 spy' planes, which were, extraor
that, since the CIA is a professional o = .inarity successful ,in prying. Into. the
fit, it should be headed by a pro with a' ommunist preserve' until a U2 was shot,
long background In the, business.
own over Sverdlovsk in 1960. That pith
Instead, the President named a retire in end to the summit conference with
Admiral, William F. Raborn Jr. Rahn ho c,,,:.4- TT-3--
T?0.. , i
if
tie, the'White House on a previous f Strategic Services, where he served,
is a Navy lieutenant (Jg). Prom then on,
casion seriously considered outtina is ,.__ L___ __ _
s
the itch to break it down, is his o apa mes.
resolve. Mr. Helms, who is 53, got his ground.)
ltlrough it was not known at t ng in intelligence in the wartime Office;
uauuna
rgence operatioh serving a democracy d ver~_t~_~ _~ _ ~~ w iox~i na -
ising
manager for the Indian
T' -a
in which the very word secrecy insnir s It
junior year. He worked, in Europe foe
professional operation. The dilemma f two years APrrnw for an American news aerw'
.
ess mss , r. Helms h s was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in hlsi
every intention of making the agency a
speaxs rrencn , anu uerman fluently.;
he Intends it to be. As a pro in the Int I- Graduated, from Williams College; he
ligence busin hi if M
of he has ever a g g cy' the White House when he was appointed';
ppeared on television, it is also modest, s; d ti c a t e d partly in'
{has been by the sheerest inadverten e. Europe, at a &,erman high school and
Even more remarkable in" this h t- s fmm.ne h.,,.,. -nH,...i x..
e
o ames ond..
M. Helms, who will) be' director of His sparse official record released by'
the Central Intelli ence A en A d'
one m r the father of one son, he is not even a~
ican in a thousand could identify Rich c~ distant relativ
f J B
so -spo en, mo est
d
s a man who falls' completely outs{ e' in demeanor, married for 20 years and?
th'e pattern It is doubtful it A l
,than not showy figures expanding li Although a directed CIA's covert, or
tropical flowers in the public glow. T v black, operations, Mr. f-lelms fits none ;measure their success by clocking c. of the stereotypes of the" spy thriller'
time they get on national televisi n. and the innumerable spy films of re-'"
Just named to fill one of these se t~. tent years Slender ft k
'+
By Marquis Childs J
seats ot Mr.
,TTMMe mighty in this Capital are more oftrn
administrator in putting through t
Polaris - TODAY-and this. is part of the ehal-'
submarine program. But, wit
no background in Intelligence, he prove enge confronting Mr. LT.elms-spyIng,i
an unhappy choice as commanding off long with almost everything else, is be
cer on the bridge of the phantom ahi ng transformed by revolutionary newt
of state which the CIA represents. eehno:iopy. The Samos satellite replaced;:
six months or Chore, Mr. Helms has bee he U2 and, as alt courses through outer
over y eager. The CIA s movin eater and more powerful intelligence
i ihto Its great white headquarters was ? erations 'of Communist Russia and
In the view of these same critics, a gray Nina, That is" the' Helms concept-a'
error, 'in that it advertised an..agend ofcsslo'nal agency operating without
that by its' very nature should have fib blicity In e.tough- rrofessional kphek
lured driverlisfngr,`F,`~:r~3i z,=i+ r0 -1
i f .;vi q 1964, tinl