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What Helms Did
Richard Helms [Nov. 14] was willing to risk his career to protect the security of his country; some Senators are willing to risk the security of their country to promote their careers.
I can't for the life of me figure out how the American people are to have any effective voice in their own foreign policy if the essential information about the behavior of the American Government can be kept from them by the invocation of national security or, alternatively...
Helms loved the big tunnel that the spooks dug into East Germany in 1956 so that they could tap into the phone cables. For months U.S. intelligence was able to listen to secrets that reached all the way back to Moscow.
When he tells that one, Helms breaks into a big grin. It cost next to nothing.