CONTROVERSY INVOLVING HELMS AND AN AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605560002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 5, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORT$
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 (30
All Things Considered
August 5, 1986 7:30 PM
STATION WAMU-FM
NPR Network
Controversy Involving Helms and An Aide
Washington, DC
NOAH ADAMS: Administration sources confirmed today that the FBI
is investigating an aide to Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
The aide, Christopher Manion, is suspected of having leaked secret
information to the Chilean government.
Senator Helms has strongly denied that he or his staff had
anything to do with the alleged leak. Helms has charged that the State
Department is orchestrating a smear campaign against him.
NPR's Richard Gonzalez reports.
RICHARD GONZALEZ: The alleged leak involves the ability of U.S.
intelligence to monitor internal communications of the Chilean armed forces.
It is through intercepted messages like these that U.S. officials reportedly
learned of undisclosed details of the July burning death of Washington
resident Rodriguez Rojas. Government troops have been accused of Rojas'
murder.
Sources also said the intelligence technology also allows
unspecified contact with a growing opposition to President Augusto Pinochet
within the Chilean armed forces.
Administration sources say that Manion, who is being investigated
by the FBI, attended a'Senate Intelligence Committee briefing on Chile.
Information on intelligence technology disclosed at that briefing eventually
made its way to the Chilean government. However, a Helms staff member denie,l
that Manion could have been privy to information from this source since the
Intelligence Committee briefing was open only to its members and staffers.
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