Person
Richard Helms
CIA officer; Deputy Director for Plans from February 1962.
- Dates
- 1913–2002
- Wikidata
- Q913848
Connections 7
head of
- Central Intelligence Agency 1970 Director of Central Intelligence Primary record 1
worked at
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Central Intelligence Agency
19 Feb 1962
Deputy Director for Plans
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2
The date he succeeded Richard Bissell in the post.
involved in
- Destruction of the MKULTRA records gave the verbal order, by Gottlieb's and his own confirmation Primary record 3
- Project MKULTRA proposed the funding channel in 1953 Primary record 34
- Track II, 1970 his handwritten notes of the meeting read “One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile!”, “$10,000,000 available, more if necessary” and “make the economy scream” Primary record 5
- What the Warren Commission was not told Corroborated McCone’s assurances to the Commission Primary record 6
appears in
- The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies Pledged, with Hoover, to keep the case open Primary record 2
Timeline 3 dates
- 1913–2002 Richard Helms
- 19 Feb 1962 Richard Helms worked at Central Intelligence Agency
- 1970 Richard Helms head of Central Intelligence Agency
Proof 6 sources
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Covert Action in Chile 1963–1973: Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate, 18 Dec 1975.
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Archived copy
John McCone telephoned CIA Director Richard Helms.
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Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, U.S. Senate, 1976.
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Archived copy
February 19-Helms succeeds Bissell as Deputy Director, Plans, CIA.
Both FBI Director Hoover and CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms pledged to keep the matter as an open case.
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Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification: Joint Hearing, U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, 3 Aug 1977.
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The records of all these activities were destroyed in January 1973, at the instruction of then CIA Director Richard Helms.
MKULTRA was approved by the DCI on April 13, 1953 along the lines proposed by ADDP Helms.
The late 1940s and early 1950s were marked by concern over the threat posed by the activities of the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and other Communist bloc countries.
concerned with the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior
Public disclosure of some aspects of MKULTRA activity could induce serious adverse reaction in U.S. public opinion, as well as stimulate offensive and defensive action in this field on the part of foreign intelligence services.
a project which took place from 1953 to 1964
MKULTRA began with a proposal from the Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms, to the DCI, outlining a special
funding mechanism for highly sensitive CIA research and development projects that studied the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behavior
raise questions of legality implicit in the original charter
places the rights and interests of U.S.
massive abridgments of the rights of American citizens
demonstrate a fundamental disregard for the value of human life
until its complete termination in the late 1960s
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Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, Commission on CIA Activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission), 1975.
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All drug testing programs were ended in 1967.
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Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Senate Report 94-465), U.S. Senate, 1975.
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Archived copy
One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile!
$10,000,000 available, more if necessary
make the economy scream
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Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives: Part I, Section C (findings and the investigation of possible conspirators), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1979.
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The record reflects that once these assurances had been received, no further efforts were made by the Warren Commission to pursue the matter.
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