Their guests will include Messrs, and Mesdames Sylvester Johnson, C. Harvey Bradley, Garvin M. Brown, William H. Ball of Muncie, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nicholson of Richmond and Mrs. Jesse Fletcher, Miss Julia Brink, -Joseph J. Daniels and Paul Robertson. Francis Xavier Alexander Shields Sr. (November 18, 1909 - August 19, 1975) was an American amateur tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s, and an actor known for Hoosier Schoolboy (1937). While Dennis was growing up in Washington, the letter went into family scrapbooks. This is the same school the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, attended. Hypnosis and drugs were central elements of the programs that encompassed CIA mind control and behavior modification research of this era. endstream endobj startxref The leadership of BLUEBIRD changed hands soon after when Morse Allen, a rigid anti-Communist from Naval Intelligence, was brought in to run the program. King, "What Is Man?" Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 11 July 1954, in Papers 6:174-179. When World War II broke out, Mr. Helms was called into service by the Naval Reserve and because of his linguistic abilities was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the C.I.A. Paralleling the CIA's experiments, it is estimated that thousands of US soldiers were exposed to dangerous chemicals, biological weapons experiments, and radioactive agent tests sponsored by the Pentagon in operations worldwide. Richard M. Helms (1913-2002) was born on March 30, 1913 in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania to Herman H. Helms and Marion McGarrah Helms. Please c, ontact . In this position, Helms was in charge of all covert action operations. Tall, lean, and an avid tennis player, Helms also was intellectually gifted. A child can be proud of his parent but also frustrated by the lack of details, the opaque explanations about careers, the questions that cant even be asked. During Iran-Contra, a lot of CIA people suddenly found themselves on the wrong end of an investigation. Richard Helms, a former director of central intelligence who defiantly guarded some of the darkest secrets of the cold war, died of multiple myeloma today. As one of its ranking officers for most of the CIA's first 25 years, Mr. Helms helped form and shape the agency, and he recruited, trained, assigned and supervised many of its top agents. Helms replied, "I don't remember." versttning med sammanhang av "years his senior" i engelska-ukrainska frn Reverso Context: Stone was four years his senior and came from one of Oxford's older families. Mr. Helms was forced out of the agency in 1973 by President Nixon, who considered him insufficiently cooperative in providing C.I.A. It did not report the cause of death, but Helms had been in failing health for some time. Mr. Nixon appointed him ambassador to Iran, a post in which Mr. Helms served until 1977, when he returned to Washington to plead no contest to charges that in 1973 he had lied to a Congressional committee about the intelligence agency's role in bringing down the Allende government. In this brave. Over the years, there would be more assignments with domestic political implications. Helms and Dulles, who was then Chief of Mission in Berne, Switzerland, met at General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters when Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945. For more than 11 months, until the tunnel was detected by the Soviet Union, the C.I.A. , ' . But he eventually ran afoul of Congressional investigators who found that he had lied or withheld information about the United States role in assassination attempts in Cuba, anti-government activities in Chile and the illegal surveillance of journalists in the United States. During Helmss high-profile tenure, his son moved to New York for a law career, and the two began writing letters to keep in touch. endstream endobj 223 0 obj <>/Metadata 14 0 R/Outlines 22 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/Pages 220 0 R/StructTreeRoot 37 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 224 0 obj <>/Font<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Type/Page>> endobj 225 0 obj <>stream Richard passed away on October 22 2002, at age 89 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. WASHINGTON Oct. 23 — Richard Helms, a former director of central intelligence who defiantly guarded some of the darkest secrets of the cold war, died today of multiple myeloma. Shortly thereafter, he returned to the United States and took a job with the Indianapolis Times newspaper, where by 1939 he had become national advertising director. "I had sworn my oath to protect certain secrets. But why be pessimistic?, He signed it Devotedly, The OM. (For Old Man.). Dennis said he didnt know. But Mr. Helms soon found himself called to account for his own actions when the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence delved into the agency's efforts to assassinate world leaders or destablize socialist governments. She married Frank Shields on 15 May 1929. An urbane and dashing spymaster, Mr. Helms began his career with a reputation as a truth teller and became a favorite of lawmakers in the late 1960's and early 70's. He was married to Cynthia McKelvie and Julia Bretzman Shields. When the CIA was established, Helms was one of the architects of the new organization. On leaving the CIA, Mr. Helms served three years as ambassador to Iran, then in 1976 ended his government career. He was known as a charming conversationalist, a gregarious partygoer and an accomplished dancer, and he and his wife continued to be familiar figures on the capital party scene. 1939 , , . . Dr. Mary Bretzman is one such team member. Heinz Warneke, Elegance, ca. , 13). . He would later represent Iranian interests in Washington. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Right after Germanys surrender, Lt. Helms, an intelligence operative, sneaked into Hitlers chancellery in Berlin and pilfered the Fuehrers stationery. In particular, Dennis loves the letters ending. colleagues, who gave him a standing, cheering ovation, then passed the hat and raised the $2,000 for his fine. He also reportedly had a hand in U.S. intelligence activities in Africa, specifically the Congo, including a scheme to assassinate Patrice Lumumba. During his war service in the US Navy, Lieutenant Helms was initially assigned to track enemy submarines off the coast of New York. When the CIA was formed in 1947 with the passage of the National Security Act, Helms stayed on under the new umbrella agency. With his wife he entered a new life in local society. Served with Office of Strategic Services United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Helms, the first career intelligence officer to head the CIA, died Tuesday night at his Washington, D.C.-area home, the agency announced Wednesday. had run a major secret operation in Chile that gave more than $8 million to the opponents of Mr. Allende, using the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation as a conduit. Although the Shah was six years younger than Helms, the fellow alumni became very close in their later lives, and particularly when Helms was appointed ambassador to Iran by President Richard Nixon in March 1973. The effort failed, and most of the invaders were killed or captured. From the beginning, he worked in the C.I.A. "The Man Who Kept the Secrets" was the title chosen by author Thomas Powers for his biography of Mr. Helms. When we got it, the hair on our arms stood up, said Toni Hiley, the CIA museums curator. That particular letter is one that only agency employees and their guests can see. He died on October 22, 2002 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. But Mr. Helms soon found himself called to account for his own actions when the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence delved into the agency's efforts to assassinate world leaders or destabilize socialist governments. . Richard M. Helms, 89, the quintessential intelligence and espionage officer who joined the Central Intelligence Agency at its founding in 1947 and rose through the ranks to lead it for more than six years, died in his sleep Oct. 22 at his home in Washington. Family (1) Spouse Julia Bretzman Shields (1939 - 1968) (divorced) (1 child) Cynthia McKelvie (? His father was an Alcoa executive and his maternal grandfather a leading international banker. At his retirement in 1973, Mr. Helms left an organization viewed with suspicion by many and about to undergo intense scrutiny from an unfriendly Congress for activities ranging from assassination plots against foreign leaders to spying on U.S. citizens. Wife: Julia Bretzman Shields (sculptor, m. 1939, div. had run a major secret operation in Chile that gave more than $8 million to the opponents of Mr. Allende, using the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation as a conduit. He served under such men as Allen W. Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, John A. McCone and Vice Adm. William F. Raborn. At the time, Helms's maternal grandfather was a bank president in Basel, Switzerland. Helms had such a sense of his own moment in history, she said. At CIA headquarters in Langley, one of the newest artifacts in the agencys private museum is a message from a father to his 3-year-old son. In the title of his 1979 biography of Mr. Helms, Thomas Powers called him ''The Man Who Kept the Secrets'' (Pocket Books). When twenty-four-year-old Helms left Germany in 1937, he decided he wanted to become a newspaper publisher and realized that the best route to this goal would be to learn the business side of the industry. Mr. Helms, who was allowed to receive his government pension, put his intelligence experience to use after his retirement. Links between unsavory Nixon White House activities and the CIA, including the agency's lending of disguises to Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, prompted an internal examination ordered by Mr. I just wish there had been more such occasions.. His years in Tehran coincided with the final period of the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, with whom Mr. Helms had a good relationship. Mr. Allende died in a 1973 military coup, which was followed by more than 16 years of military dictatorship. The letter writer was his father, Richard Helms, the CIA director during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras, who died in 2002. A year later, he was among a group of journalists who interviewed Adolf Hitler. Helms would call up those people, invite them to dinner or lunch and he would more or less tell them how you live through this, and believe me, they were grateful, Powers said. He served under such men as Allen W. Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, John A. McCone and Vice Adm. William F. Raborn. They just dont want to hear too much about it.. The couple divorced in 1968, and Mr. Helms married Cynthia McKelvie later that year. They were also the types of subjects who would not be prone to question if they had been unwittingly drugged, because drugs were a normal part of their culture anyway. He was 89. An urbane and dashing spymaster, Mr. Helms began his career with a reputation as a truth-teller and became a favorite of lawmakers in the late 1960's and early 70's. He became a consultant to businesses that made investments in other countries. Richard married Julia Helms (born Bretzman Shields) on month day 1939, at age 26 at marriage place, Indiana. They asked: Got anything interesting lying around the house? 15 Sep 1970: President Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger instruct CIA Director Richard Helms to spend up to $10 million "to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him." 2 Feb 1973: Richard M. Nixon fires Richard Helms, after Helms is loyal to CIA and not Nixon, over Watergate issues. With the goal of eventually owning a small newspaper, he set off after graduation for a career in journalism. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins.. He was a firm believer in the importance of the espionage game. According to Helms's assistant, George McManus, the main reason Helms did not tell his boss about mob involvement in assassination conspiracies was because McCone would have considered it "morally reprehensible.". He later married Cynthia McKelvie, who survives him. But the most contentious criticism of Mr. Helms centered on Chile. He made only one public speech during his years as CIA leader, telling the nation's newspaper editors that "the nation must, to a degree, take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men, devoted to her service. President Reagan awarded him the National Security Medal in a White House ceremony. That was about it. He had multiple melanoma. At the Camp David meeting, the president had asked Mr. Helms if he would like to be an ambassador, and the two men had agreed on Iran. Julia Bretzman Shields (deceased) - Genealogy Julia Bretzman Shields public profile View Complete Profile Matching family tree profiles for Julia Bretzman Shields Julia L. Bretzman in FamilySearch Family Tree view all Immediate Family Richard Helms, Director of Centr. He is also survived by a son, Dennis, from his first marriage. Father: Herman H. Helms Mother: Marion (McGarrah) Helms Spouse: Helms in the directorate of plans (covert operations) and Angleton in counterintelligence guided this new mission. CAREER: Consultant. (White House Photo By Yoichi R. Okamoto). Dennis figured the original was safer in Langley. As Deputy Director of Plans, Helms hid this information from President Kennedy and his CIA director John McCone. In this case, it is interesting to note that a vegetable is also the term for what could happen if an experiment went awry and the subject's memory was lost permanently. Or find other results in the 1940 census forJulia Helms. The CIA's mind control research program was renamed ARTICHOKE in 1952. Through the 1970s, Helms was repeatedly called to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about CIA activities that may have violated the agencys charter. had never tried to overthrow the government of President Salvador Allende Gossens or funneled money to political enemies of Mr. Allende, a Marxist. In pursuit of that goal, he paid his own fare to London, where he became a European reporter for United Press. He was second-in-command of covert operations in 1958 when he was passed over for the directorship of that activity in favor of Richard M. Bissell Jr., who in 1961 would plan and direct the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba. In 1935, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College, where in his senior year he was president of his class, editor of the campus newspaper and the yearbook and president of the honor society. Espionage, he once remarked, is not played by the Marquess of Queensberry rules, and the only sin in espionage is getting caught., Lets face it, he said on another occasion, the American people want an effective, strong intelligence operation. So, theyd say, Oh, well, youre kinda dumb, the son said. Mr. Helms believed he had performed well in a job that, although many Americans considered it sinister and undemocratic, was nevertheless a cold-blooded necessity in an era of cold war. His biggest scoop, he said,. He was previously married to Julia Bretzman Shields and Cynthia McKelvie. He would serve longer as director of central intelligence than anyone except Allen Dulles, the legendary spymaster who led the CIA from 1953 to 1961. His father, Lt. Col. James H. Angleton, had worked for a US firm in Italy and, with the outbreak of war, the elder Angleton also wound up working in intelligence under General Donovan. His wife is Julia Bretzman Shields (1939 - 1968) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Cynthia McKelvie (? I will miss his priceless counsel and warm friendship.". Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. At that time, North Korea had developed so-called "brainwashing" techniques for use in obtaining "confessions" from American prisoners of war. In 1977, Mr. Helms stepped down as ambassador to Iran and returned to Washington to plead no contest to charges that in 1973 he had lied to a Congressional committee about the intelligence agency's role in bringing down the Allende government. By the same token, Helms writes that key CIA actions were always carried out with presidential approval. I was simply trying to find my way through a difficult situation in which I found myself.''. Web: Marion County, Indiana, Marriage Index, 1925-2012, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967, Do not sell or share my personal information. The Measure of a Man is the earliest attempt to publish King's sermons in book form. In 1973, Nixon forced him to resign as head of the CIA. You cocksucker! Helms and his wife Julia had one child, a son named Dennis. 4- In 1939 Helms had married Julia Bretzman Shields, a sculptress six years his senior.. 5- Although writing remained her true passion, she also showed talent as an artist and sculptress.. 6- They gave Stuart three grandchildren; food entrepreneur Laragh, photographer Suki and sculptress Sophia.. 7- I think that I probably inherited this interest, since my Aunt Randy is a sculptress. We encourage you to research and . Helms was named director, a post he would hold for six years. His assignments included coverage of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination. Julia was born on April 8 1907, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. Helms notes in his autobiography that this was two years before the terror of the Nazi's plans became clear with the outbreak of anti-Semitic violence known as Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938. Helm's successor at the agency, James R. Schlesinger. Enterprise reporter covering the Washington region and beyond, A letter from Richard Helms, on Hitler's stationary, to his son. Some Richard Helms images. Gradually, the agency learned to use combinations of various methods to achieve amnesia in its subjects. Dennis is Dennis Helms, now a 69-year-old intellectual-property lawyer in New Jersey. In the face of the Communist challenge, the US military sought to prepare its soldiers for survival in the event they were captured by the enemy. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. He was 89. At Williams College, Mr. Helms excelled as a student and leader. That resulted in a 693-page compendium of agency misdeeds, including assassination attempts, burglaries, electronic eavesdropping and LSD testing of people without their knowledge. Richard married Julia Helms (born Bretzman Shields) on month day 1939, at age 26 at marriage place, Indiana. .Booklist. The newsmen had been invited to a luncheon with the Fhrer during a weeklong Nazi Party Congress meeting. Helms, an OSS operative in World War II, was always vague about the letter. After his federal retirement he served on a variety of government boards, panels and commissions, especially during the Reagan presidency. (His father and mother, Julia Bretzman Helms, divorced in 1968, and she died in 1986.) Helms and Angleton would use this information to plan their future in the world of espionage. For example, memos from the 1950s show that the CIA hid knowledge of the whereabouts of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann who had escaped to Argentina. Under Helms's guidance, behavioral medicine scientists from across the US were recruited to investigate a curious mix of concepts: creating amnesia, understanding bioelectrics, and attempting to harness parapsychology. The gold-embossed letterhead features a swastika and the name Adolf Hitler. Even before the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters, the White House had demanded and received CIA files on agency plots to assassinate foreign leaders during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. chief, Mr. Helms received favorable, occasionally fawning attention from lawmakers and the press, who remarked on his professionalism, candor, and even his dark good looks. He became the CIA's deputy director for plans, the innocuous-sounding title of the chief of covert action. In 1940, she was 32 years old and lived in Washington, Indiana, with her husband, Richard, son, and daughter. He fancied a career in journalism, and went to Europe as a reporter for United Press. This was considered an important requirement by the experimenters in order to produce dependable results. For a man who considered himself a genuine patriot, it was a bleak note on which to end his professional career. War-time intelligence [edit | edit source] Under Helms's guidance, behavioral medicine scientists from across the US were recruited to investigate a curious mix of concepts: creating amnesia, understanding bioelectrics, and attempting to . But he lunched occasionally with influential figures in the media, and he was assiduous in cultivating the congressional support he needed to manage his agency. Helms was also named to a panel to study counterintelligence breaches and later a presidential review board on security problems at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. %PDF-1.5 % - 22 October 2002) (his death) Helms remained with the OSS after his discharge from the Navy in 1946 as the Cold War began in earnest. In 1976, Mr. Helms returned from Tehran, retired from government service and became an international consultant. The behavior control program was initiated under the auspices of the CIA's Office of Security. Anyone can read what you share. With the entry of the United States into World War II, he joined the Navy, and in 1943 was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. wartime espionage agency. It was the results of these experiments that most interested Richard Helms and American intelligence. 229 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<0FE81A3C1E7EFE44AF36D8950331A64D><1C923204F3452F4692C304A98FB5F8E8>]/Index[222 28]/Info 221 0 R/Length 55/Prev 24142/Root 223 0 R/Size 250/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Initially, he held desk jobs in Washington and New York but later served in Britain and the European theater. The committee's job was to monitor reports of covert approaches to CIA officers by McCarthy agents and to plug any leaks. Later that day he went to a reunion of former C.I.A. . He is known for Frontline (1983), Les mercredis de l'histoire (1995) and Watergate (1994). So-called terrorism may get a new lease on life. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, the title of author Thomas Powers's biography of Richard Helms, is a fitting description of his subject. After consulting with various psychiatrists, Allen introduced the use of electroshock treatments to the mind control repertoire. Richard Helms, a former director of central intelligence who defiantly guarded some of the darkest secrets of the Cold War, died Tuesday night (Oct. 22, 2002) of multiple myeloma. The next year, Raborn -- who had little experience in foreign affairs or intelligence gathering -- resigned. Mr. Helms pleaded no contest in 1977 to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully four years earlier to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Soon, this newly contracted legion of psychiatrists began to test mind-altering drugs in conjunction with hypnosis. It was said of Mr. Helms that throughout his career and into retirement, he was preoccupied with the Soviet Union and its CIA counterpart, the KGB. By a cabal of CIA employees, the Mafia and Cuban exiles, who killed Kennedy out of vengeance and in the hope of new. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. . In 1940, she was 32 years old and lived in Washington, Indiana, with her husband, Richard, son, and daughter. Julia apparently favored the Democratic Party. Under Johnson and then President Nixon, Helms headed Operation Chaos, which spied on American citizens linked to the increasingly powerful antiwar movement, looking for ties to foreign governments. The committee, which was led by Senator Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat, accused Mr. Helms of failing to inform his own superiors of efforts to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba, which the Senate panel called "a grave error in judgment.". . Such code words are typically meaningless except to the originator. Together they formed the "perfect storm." In the judgment of Richard Helms, the CIA worked only for the president. Two years later, he pleaded no contest to failing to testify fully before the committee. She spends her days providing medical services to clients, which may include performing physicals, reviewing lab work or doing EKGs when necessary. But several other letters between the Helms men are available for public viewing at Georgetown Universitys library, which obtained the fathers papers in 2008. He later married Cynthia McKelvie, who survives him. He covered the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and interviewed a number of the leading figures of the day, including skater Sonja Henie. That reputation grew in 1973, when Mr. Helms clashed with President Nixon, who sought his help in thwarting an F.B.I. His father signed off with a term that he rarely used for himself. As the Cold War intensified, and the nation saw the rise of rabid anti-Communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a sense of paranoia emerged regarding the Soviet Union and Communist efforts in the field of mind control. Foreword by Dr. Henry C. Lee, Preface, Chapter 1: Richard Helms, The Strategist, Chapter 2: The Sociopathy Test, Chapter 3: James Angleton, The Tactician, Chapter 4: Assassinations Past, Chapter 5: Lee Harvey Oswald, An Unwitting Patsy, Chapter 6: November 22, 1963, the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Chapter 7: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, an Involuntary Pawn, Chapter 8: June 5, 1968, the Assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Chapter 9: Conclusion, Notes, Index, Readers who cant get enough of speculation about the JFK and RFK assassinations should definitely give [CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys] a read . One part still confuses Dennis: The letter is dated V-E Day. "You now stand before this court in disgrace and shame," the judge told him, and sentenced him to two years in prison and a $2,000 fine. 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