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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100020062-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: April 15, 1971
• Content Type: TRANS

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41 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YOFyi[-NUh&7: 697-5100
FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
PROGRAM NEW YORK TIMES INSIGHT
CPYRGHT
April. 15, 1971 7:30PM
New York,, N.Y.
CLIFTON DANIEL: The last word this evening is about the CIA
and the public. For the first time since he became head of the
Central Intelligence Agency in 1966, Richard Helms made a public
speech'yesterday. He appeared before the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washington.
Amon other things, Mr. Helms said the nation must to a degree
take it on faith that we too, meaning we in the CIA, are honorable
men devoted to her service. I hope Mr. Helms will forgive me if
I express a little skepticism. I accept the fact that he is an
honorable man. More than that he is an intelligent, efficient,,
and effective public official and an honest and candid one as
well. So far as one can know he has improved the work of the
Central Intelligence Agency and liquidated some of its more
dubious enterprises. The fact remains, hcwever, as Mr. Helms
himself recognizes, that the mission of the CIA appears to many
Americans in his words, "to be in conflict with some of the
traditions and ideals of our society." It makes me nervous, it
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