THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605720009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
THE WASHINGTON POST
ON FAGE_L__--- 13 October 1981
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Reagan and Mitterrand
'Costar' in Docurnentar `
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By Donnie Radcliffe
Washington Ways
Richard Helms was still U.S. am-
bassador to Iran when Anwar Sadat
made-a?state-visit to Tehran in 1976:'
As former: director of the Central:
Intelligence Agency,: Helms had
made: headlines shuttling back and
forth to the United States to testify
on the CIA's role in, Watergate and
in Chile's 1970 presidential elections.
At a reception, Sadat turned to
Helms and,' in his distinctively 'ac=
cented English, startled America's
former:head spook -by' asking: "Why
do you do this striptease?"_
"I'm sorry, Mr. President," Helms
replied, "I _ don't quite understand
what you're saying."
"What I'm talking about," Sadat
scolded, "is all these secrets the CIA
is putting out in, public. It's very silly
to do things like that." V`^
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