LETTER TO ADMIRAL W.F. RABORN FROM STUART SYMINGTON

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• Publication Date: May 2, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington, D. C.
May 2, 1966
Admiral W. F. Raborn
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C.
Your good note of April 29th, it would be my privilege
to be used as a reference for Dick Helms.
My kind regards.
Sincerely,
/s/
Stuart Symington
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May 2, 1966
Hon. W. F. Raborn
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
I thank you for your letter of April 29th with refer-
ence to Dick Helms.
I am delighted that you have nominated Dick for the
1966 Rockefeller Public Service Award for he is
certainly deserving. I heartily approve of your action
and will be helpful in every way I can. Please let me
know if there is any specific action that you think I
could appropriately take.
I am making progress and hope that we shall soon be
able to have a good visit.
Cordially yours,
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May 2, 1966
W. F. Raborn, Director,
Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington, D. C.
I have your letter of April 29th and I am pleased
that you have given me as a reference in connection
with the nomination of Dick Helms for the 1966
Rockefeller Public Service Award.
I will be glad, of course, to do anything I can.
Sincerely,
Gordon Gray
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This is to let you know that I have nominated
Dick Helms, the Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence, for the 1966 Rockefeller Public Service
Award in the field of Foreign Affairs and International
Operations. It was with a great deal of pride and
satisfaction that I submitted Dick's name.
I have taken the liberty of citing you as a
reference for the group at Princeton which will
consider all of the nominations. I am sure you will
appreciate the fact that we were not able to tell the
complete and detailed story of Dick's accomplish-
ments in the material we submitted to the Committee
on Selection. We have offered to provide additional
oral briefings if this would be helpful.
I hope that I can count on you to endorse Dick's
nomination.
Sincerely,
'(eA -,
W. F. Raborn
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Same letter went to:
The Honorable John A. McCone
The Honorable John W. Gardner
The Honorable -Stuart Symington
The Honorable Charles E. Bohlen
The Honorable Gordon Gray
The Honorable Clark M. CIWRT 1JTL
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Richard McGarrah Helms was born March 30, 1913,
in St, Davids, Pennsylvania. He attended Carteret
Academy in Orange, New Jersey; Le Rosey at Rolle,
Switzerland; and the Realgymnasium in Freiburg
i/Breisgau, Germany. He was graduated with a B. A.
degree from Williams College in 1935, where he was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Helms was a staff correspondent for the
United Press in Germany from 1935 to 1937, after
which he went to Indianapolis, Indiana,as Retail
Advertising Solicitor for the Indianapolis Times,
a Scripps-Howard newspaper. In 1939f a iecam a-
tional Advertising Manager for that journal.
He is remembered by his classmates of Williams
College as the Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook,
Gulielmensian, and also as the Editor-in-Chief of
the co liege newspaper, The Williams Record.
While with the United Press in Europe, Mr.
Helms interviewed Hitler and later his story
"Hitler and Mars Incorporated" was published in
the Indianapolis Times.
During the winter of 1942, he was connected
with the public relations effort of the Navy
Relief Society fund raising drive in New York City?
Mr. Helms was commissioned Lieutenant (jg),
United States Naval Reserve, on 1 July 1942, and
after attending Naval Training School, Harvard
University, was assigned as Operations Officer,
Headquarters,Eastern Sea Frontier. In 3943, Mr,
Helms began his intelligence career. He was
assigned in August of that year to the Office of
Strategic Services and saw service in Washington,
England, France, and Germany.
Upon discharge from the United States Naval
Reserve in 1946, Mr. Helms was employed as a civilian
in the Strategic Services Unit, War Department, which
was the successor organization to a major part of the
Office of Strategic Services. He was employed there
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until the establishment of the Central Intelligence
Group, to which he was transferred. He was then
assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency when
it was established on 18 September 1947. In August
of 1952 he was appointed by General Walter Bedell
Smith, then Director of Central Intelligence, as
Deputy to the Deputy Director of Plans. On 17'Feb-
ruary 1962, he was appointed Deputy Director for
Plans by John A. McCone.
Mr. Helms and Julia Bretzman of Indianapolis,
Indiana, were married in.1989. Their family in-
cludes one son, Dennis, who is now a student at the
University of Virginia Law School.
Mr. Helms was nominated by President Johnson
as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on 14
April 1965.
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