ADMIT HELMS PROBED ON PERJURY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030091-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 91
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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,_...eiiICAGO, ILLINOIS
SUN-TIM
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By Loye Millec-Jr.
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Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON --A top White House offi
vial confirmed Thursday publicly for the first
and M.-.Helms is tm-
.der investigation for alleged perjury .be-
fore two Senate coin
mittees..
Further, Robert
Lipshutz, counsel to
the President, dis-.
closed that the White
how much classified
information is- to be
furnished , ? federal
prosecutors pursuing
RICHARD M, HELMS
i ._ the case.,...,.
Helms, according to published rorts, has
threatened that if be is indicted'and tried as a
result of the investigation, he will "take some
other people with him."
The Wilmington,~(Del.) News Journal re-
ported-Feb. 13 that:'llelms has told CIA offi-
ciais-and others that if he is in i. Mll
name former See.'of State Henry A. Kissinger,
as the man who ordered him tolie.. Helms hasj
not denied:thzzeport.'
- ~:
Another . journalist,- Washington columnist'
Iom Braden, himself- a former CIA official; :'
has pointed-out in print that Kissinger would
have had- no authority to give Helms such an
order unless it was backed up by the Presi-
dent.--`.
Thus, the case could touch former Presi-
dents-Ricbard M. Nixon and Gerald R. "cord,
because it involves. allegations that. Helms`.
perjured himself in 1973, and again in 1975.
The Justice Department has denied the Wit=
mington newspaper's report that indictments
are imminent in the case and. has not even
admitted the probe is under way..'.-
But privately, government- sources have=
conceded there is a grand jury investigation
growing out of reports that the CIA,- in part-?
nership with such multinational corporations as
the International Telephone and Telegraph
,Corp. spent millions trying to bribe--officials
and political parties in Chile.
In 1973, the Senate subcommittee on mul-
tinational. corporations began to lookinto
Dateline Washington: Other Sun-Times Bu-
reau stories are on Pages-12,.16 and 22.
such charges, including an allegation- that
I ITT funnelled $350,000 to opponents of the late
Salvadore- Allende,"Chile's Marxist president.-
In 1975, the same ' matters came ` under
'scrutiny of the Senate intelligence committee.
Both committees.- took testimony on the
matter from Helms, who headed the` CIA
from 1966 to 1973, and from ITT president
Harold Geneen. Now the federal grand jury is
investigating charges that. the two lied and
possibly co-ordinated their.. statements.
Speculation has been fueled by the an-
ouncement, wtihout 'explanation, ' that- Gen-
een would relinquish his $700,000-a-year job as
president of ITT at, the end of the year.: -
Lipshutz'. almost offhand 'admission came--41
during a.Thursday breakfast with reporters
when he said his White House legal office. . is
representing the President in juggling pro-
secutors'demands that other executive branch
agencies yield classified information as evi-
dence.for the grand jury.
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