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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHI\(,"1ON
DAILY NEWS
JUN 3'0 1966
19RESIDENT JOHNSON chose well in
elevating the government's top career
intelligence officer, Richard M, Helms,
to directorship of the- Central
Intelligence Agency.
Dick Helms is an exceptionally able
public servant. The words customarily
used to describe him - "brilliant,
"dedicated and. "unbiased" are
accurate.
Going from the Navy into the Office
of Strategic Services .(the CIA's
predecessor) in 1943, Mr; Helms has
spent the years since continuously in
government intelligence, rising thru the
ranks until only little more than a year
ago he was named deputy director of
the CIA under the now retiri>g Admiral
William F.. Raborn.:
Thus, he knows ,inside-out the ? faults,:: performance required , i'1' '.,..,
strengths, plans and machinery of this-4
most complicated, controversial but all-`1:
essential government agency. His
record commends and fits him to take j
over the 'reins.
He knows. that one of the greatest
needs of the CIA today is a better
public image = not that it Is nearly,
as bad now as some claim. But it needs e.
to be better, for it Is an I agency
essential to the welfare of our country.;,;
a sister newspaper. .. ;;
Many in the S c r I p p s-Howard',
newspaper organization have known'!
Dick Helms since the pre-War II days':i
when he was director 'of national'
,advertising for the Indiaflapolis:.Times,`',j
Our wager is.that he' Can:turnin,the.j.