HELMS STRIKES BACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 9, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9
ON PA
NEW YORK POST
9 August 1986
Inside
report
By ROWLAND EVANS
By ROWLAND EVANS
and ROBERT NOVAK
and ROBERT NOVAS
AN angry Sen. Jesse
Helms, counterattacking
veiled charges that his of-
fice may have leaked se-
crets about U.S. espionage
in Chile, yesterday sent a
private letter to Attorney
General Edwin Meese
Friday requesting "an FBI
Investigation of the CIA
and the National Security
Agency to determine
whether" he and his staff
were "under surveillance"
during his recent trip to
Chile.
Helms' staff, not the
senator himself, Is the tar-
get of the probe involving
secret intercepts in Chile.
He has accused Assistant
Secretary of State Elliott
Abrams of leaking the
charge "In the dead of
night" to anti-Helms sena-
tors. In his letter to Meese,
Helms said his "concern
lies with the possibility
that the CIA and other in-
telligence organizations
may be unlawfully invad-
ing the privacy of senators,
Including me."
Helms wrote Meese that
he had "absolutely nothing
to hide." The right-wing
Republican leader is con-
sidering retaliation
against what he regards as
CIA complicity in the cam-
paign against his staff by
holding up Senate action
on the CIA's authorization
bill, now ready for passage.
Helms strikes back I
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9