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The prospect of handling down an unprecedented indictment of a former CIA director on serious perjury charges daunted the Justice Department from the very beginning in 1973 when Helms lied about CIA involvement in plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador...
Bell and the Criminal Division of Justice settled for a compromise, hoping to provoke a storm that would blow over with the passing of a few weeks. They persuaded Helms to enter a plea of no contest to significantly reduced charges, thereby officially recording Helm's guilt without risking the...
BUT A FEW unusual circumstances surrounded the disclosure of the resolution of the troublesome case. For one thing, Justice Department officials, in a departure from normal procedure, failed to notify reporters of Helms's day in court until after the former CIA director had entered the courtroom. Bell's post...
The steady unearthing of such details has aroused some unfocused doubts as to the credibility of the reasons the Carter administration officials advanced for their peculiar handling of the Helms affair. These understandable misgivings are only reinforced by closely examining the arguments mustered in defense of the final resolution. That...
Helms stood on very shaky legal ground as well. The oath he took as CIA director to protect the nation's intelligence secrets did not even begin to excuse his perjury before Congress. He need only have declined to testify on matters involving a conflict of these two oaths when...