CIA'S HELMS TALKS OF '62 CUBAN CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300340113-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: April 15, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Washington, April 14 1.F'-Rich', memoirs were published here in
and Helms, director of the Cen- IN -3, was said to h ,e supplied
tral Intelligence Agency, im-,vital information on S!;viet plans
plied today that there was more
and ability to carry tho-in cut
than one high level Western spy during the Berlin cps- in it
in the Soviet Union daring the as well as the CubYan crisis the
1962 Cuban missile crisis. !next year.
In his first public speech since' President Kennedy was said
he became chier of the CIA, Mr. to have relied heavily on this
Helms told a newspaper editors: information in planning his'o;rn
conference here that "a number 'moves.
of well-placed and courageous; Mr. Helm's was not available
Russians," along with U-2 re to comment fur titer on Ws re-
connaissance planes, had pro': i mark fuliov,ing the speec:ato the
ded data on Soviet missile ss- American Society of \ewsoaper
tems at the time. Editors, in which he sal: U.S.
The only name previously con intelligence "will have a -major
nected with high-level leaks of and vital role in any imtfer 3 i m
military information has been al agreement to until strategic
Col. Oleg Penkovsky, a senior arms.
Soviet military intelligence offi-' He said it would be "um Jn a-
cep who was tried and executed ble to conclude a strategic arms
for espionage by the Russians in limitation agreement wi': the
1963. 1 Soviet Union without the Bans
Penkovsl:y, N ?hnse purported for monitoring coin pliance."
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