CIA DIRECTOR HELMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 24, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE
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February 24, 1967 Vol. 89, No. 8
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TIME
THE ADMINISTRATION
The Silent Service
(See Cover)
What enables the wise sovereign and
the good general to strike and conquer,
and achieve things beyond the reach of
ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
-Sun Tzu, 6th Century B.C.
Chinese military theorist
Inside a U.S. ferret satellite flashing
around the earth at 17,000 m.p.h., su-
persensitive instruments intercept and
flick back to Virginia a radio message
between Moscow and a Soviet subma-
rine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American
listens attentively to the words of a
cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of
silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy
in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests
a stack of reports that may originate
from any one of a thousand sources-
a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse
madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics
salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern Eu-
ropean propaganda broadside. At an
airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 recon-
naissance plane with a Nationalist Chi-
nese pilot at the controls soars off the
runway, bound for skies 15 miles above
Red China on a photographic mission.
Such is the spider-web scope and
space-age sophistication of the U.S. Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, the nation's
deep-secret seeker of foreknowledge in
the dim, cold demi-world of interna-
tional intelligence. CIA is America's chief
combatant in what Secretary of State
Dean Rusk calls "a tough struggle go-
ing on in the back alleys all over the
world, a never-ending war, and there's
no quarter asked and none given."
Cacophony of Protest. So cloaked
and gagged is CIA's operation that a
majority of Americans cannot recite even
its most dramatic feats: its pinpoint re-
porting about day-by-day developments
leading to the explosion of Red China's
first nuclear device, its brilliant success
in wiretapping Soviet army headquar-
ters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time
revelation in 1962 that Russian missile
bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even
more mysterious to most Americans
than CIA itself is its director, Richard
McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, con-
* Accomplished by digging and wiring a tun-
nel from West to East Berlin, which caved in
only because East German street laborers in-
THE NATION
trolled, self-effacing professional who
holds one of the most delicate and cru-
cial posts in official Washington-and
whose name has yet to appear in Who's
Who in America. Dick Helms has been,
in Washington parlance, a "spook" for
nearly 25 years. He is a veteran of some
of the agency's most labyrinthine op-
erations-from masterminding double
the emotionalism of young Americans
who worship honesty. It aroused the
outrage of many in the academic com-
munity who-mistakenly-regard CIA
as an evil manipulator of foreign policy.
And the furor showed again how readily
Americans, who, while seldom acknowl-
edging the quiet and generally successful
performance of their intelligence com-
STUDENTS ARRIVING FOR WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL IN MOSCOW (1957)
Once again, a spotlight on the tightrope of paradoxes.
agents working at the very heart
munity, will howl their indignation at
the first hint of misjudgment.
"Sinister Specter."' The story-and
the storm-broke early in the week
when Ramparts, the sensation-seeking
New Left-leaning monthly, took full-
page newspaper ads to trumpet an ar-
ticle scheduled for its March issue that
would. "document" how CIA "infiltrated
and subverted the world of American
student leaders." The story, according
to Ramparts, was a "case study in the
corruption of youthly idealism," and
would prove that "CIA owes the youth
of this country an apology." CIA's in-
volvement with the academic commu-
Kremlin intelligence to supervising cov-
ert U.S. operations that kept the Congo
out of Communist control.
Yet no amount of expertise in back-
alley battling or electronic espionage
could. have prepared Helms or CIA for
the cacophony of protest that arose last
week over yet another facet of U.S. in-
telligence-the agency's undercover
funding of American and international
students' associations.
The controversy once again spotlight-
ed the shadowy tightrope of paradoxes
that the Helmsmen must walk in the
interests of a nation that cherishes
openness and fair play. The debate pit-
ted the Puritan ethic against the prag-
matism of cold-war survival. It matched
the conspiratorial methods necessarily
nity has been a target of Ramparts be-
fore: an article last April lambasted
Michigan State University for providing
cover for five CIA agents during a fed-
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Vietnamese policemen. Predictably, its
10,000-word article on the U.S. Na-
tional Student Association was larded
with pejorative cliches about "the sinis-
ter specter" of CIA mixing with a stu-
dent group.
Factually at least, the piece was es-
sentially accurate. N.S.A., the nation's
largest student organization, represents
the campus governments of some 300
colleges. It arranges hundreds of for-
eign trips and wide-ranging student ex-
change programs, and holds an annual
National Student Congress to debate it
few domestic issues and countless inter-
national questions ranging from "Whith-
er Africa?" to "How Now, Chairman
Mao?" The association was founded in
1947 by 24 American campus leaders,
including White House Aide Douglass
along; its representatives continued to
attend it series of international student
rallies. Invariahl they found them-
selves outmaneuvered, outshouted and
outlinanced by Communist student or-
ganizations that scent out of their way
to impre,s delegates from the under-
developed, uncommitted nations of Af-
rica. Asia and Latin America.
PPPM. The U.S., as leader of the
free world. could not comfortably sit
by while Moscow made its grandstand
play for the imaginations and loyalties
of the world's youth. National student
organizations were proliferating every-
ss here, and in 1950, N.S.A. and 20 other
groups formed the International Student
Conference as the West's counterweight
to the aggressive International Union of
Students. a ('ommunist-subsidized youth
U.S. Youth Council in New Yw?? Jvcr
the past 15 years, fund,; were donated
to one organization or another in the
name of the Independerce Foundation,
the J. Frederick Brown Foundation,
and the Sidney and Esther Rabb Chari-
table Foundation, all of Boston, the San
Jacinto Fund of Houston, the Founda-
tion for Youth and Student Affairs of
Nov York. In several cases. the forms
that tax-exempt foundations are re-
quired to submit as public records with
the Internal Revenue Service were
strangely missing from the files of dis-
trict offices.
The San Jacinto Fund has neither a
listed phone nor an otlil_e address, op-
erates out of the office of an account-
ant. Others, too. proved to be desk-
drawer operations-without staff, office
space or liked telephone numbers.
Dummy fronts or not, these foundations
over the past 15 years had contributed
as much as 8V4 of N.S.A.'s budget.
Ignored Success. From the first, the
operation was supposed to be accom-
plished with characteristi : CIA attention
to secrecy. Only N.S.A. presidents (who
serve one-year terms) and a couple of
other top oflicers were told about the
arrangement. They were required to
sign a national-security pledge that they
would never reveal that information-
at the risk of ;r maximum 20-year prison
sentence for violating its terms. Over
the years, N.S.A. actually did have drib-
bles of cash coming from the Ford and
Rockefeller 'oundations, as well as
from the St