JUSTICE WILL GET UNIT'S HELMS FILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100090062-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: January 24, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-005
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The committee also decided to
turn over allegations of a re-
ported plot, by-the White House
to kill columnist Jack Anderson.
The -Washington Post. reported
that E. Howard Hunt, a former
CIA agent and Watergate bur-
glar, told friends that - he, had
been -ordered to kill.--Anderson,
who was printing, classified
information in his column -
The files deal with allegations
that Helms committed perury in
February 1973 when he told the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee that the CIA did not try
to overthrow the government of
the late- Marxist - President
Salvador Allende of Chile.. '-
Break-in At Photo Shop -
The break-in- investigation
centers on a photography shop,
which wa.1 operated by a former
Cuban propaganda official a few
miles- from -CIA headquarters in
si turban Langley, Va.
CIA, aided by Fai?ifax, Val po-
lice, allegedly broke- into the
shop because the Cuban was dat-
ing a parttime CIA employe.
Ju tice - officials are trying to
determine if Helms approved the
break-in.
21 January 1976
By JOSEPH VOLZ
Washington, Jan. 23 (News- Bureau) The Senate
Intelligence Committee voted today to give. the Justice
Department its files on former CIA Director Richard M.
Helms, who is being investigated on perjury and break-in
-charges:
Justice Department officials'
-have contended that they could
not continue their probe ofi
Helms,'_ now - United- States]
assba sador to Iran, ? as long as
the committee refused to turn
over its records..
saying that he was told to drug
0 Anderson but not kill him. Hunt
-said no plans. against Anderson
were ever carred out. - -
Meanwhile, CIA Director Wil-
liam E. Colby, making his last
congressional appearance as the
agency's. head, accused Congress
of being such a sieve that "every
Calls Congress A-Sieve -
Hunt has denied the account,
one of the new projects has!
leaked into the public domain."
Congress passed a law two years
ago ordering the CIA to report 1
its covert -operations to several
House and Senate committees.
Although there'is some sent!--
ment in the Senate to delay any
major reform of the CIA, Colby
said that quick action is needed
in setting up a joint Senate-
House Intelligence Committee.
But Colby said that the panel
should not be told in advance of
covert operations He said that
such a requirement. "would con-
flict with the President's consti-
tutional rights."
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090062-4