HELMS STRIKES BACK

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CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
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December 22, 2016
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February 7, 2012
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16
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Publication Date: 
August 9, 1986
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9 ON PA NEW YORK POST 9 August 1986 Inside report By ROWLAND EVANS By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK and ROBERT NOVAS AN angry Sen. Jesse Helms, counterattacking veiled charges that his of- fice may have leaked se- crets about U.S. espionage in Chile, yesterday sent a private letter to Attorney General Edwin Meese Friday requesting "an FBI Investigation of the CIA and the National Security Agency to determine whether" he and his staff were "under surveillance" during his recent trip to Chile. Helms' staff, not the senator himself, Is the tar- get of the probe involving secret intercepts in Chile. He has accused Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams of leaking the charge "In the dead of night" to anti-Helms sena- tors. In his letter to Meese, Helms said his "concern lies with the possibility that the CIA and other in- telligence organizations may be unlawfully invad- ing the privacy of senators, Including me." Helms wrote Meese that he had "absolutely nothing to hide." The right-wing Republican leader is con- sidering retaliation against what he regards as CIA complicity in the cam- paign against his staff by holding up Senate action on the CIA's authorization bill, now ready for passage. Helms strikes back I Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504820016-9