Watergate Hearings - Richard Helms
Watergate Hearings - Richard Helms
(11:12:03) Opens to Counsel DAVID DORSEN questioning former CIA Director RICHARD HELMS about HOWARD HUNT's requests upon joining the White House staff - Helm's says Hunt's requests quickly got to be too much and he had the White House contacted to tell them the CIA was no longer going to grant Hunt's requests, Helms explains why the CIA's White House contact was JOHN EHRLICHMAN (11:14:15) Dorsen asks Helms when he first found out about the break-in to Dr. LOUIS FIELDINGS's office and if he knew about CIA equipment being used in this break-in - Helms responds he found out about it in Tehran and that he did not know how CIA equipment could have been used as none was ever given to Hunt (11:16:05) Dorsen asks Helms if the CIA did a psychological profile for the White House of DANIEL ELLSBERG - Helms explains in detail the context of the request and begins to explain the process itself and its history (11:18:18) Skip in footage (11:18:22) Skip in footage - Dorsen asks who at the White House was requesting the profile and if any illegally or improperly obtained materials were submitted for review - Helms answers (11:19:52) Dorsen asks when Helms found out about the Watergate break in and if there was any CIA activity as a result - Helms responds that he thinks he first found out about it through the newspapers, Helms says that his secuirty director then informed him of the people who were involved in the break-in who were former CIA agents (11:22:28) Dorsen asks Helms about his contact with Director of the FBI Gray (11:23:11) Skip in footage, back 2 seconds (11:23:28) Dorsen asks if Helms if in this contact with Gray if he mentioned if the CIA had anything to do with the break-in - Helms shouts in response that he told Gray the CIA had nothing to do with the break-in, and he hopes the press hears him this time (11:24:00) Dorsen asks Helms about his meeting with Presidential advisors H.R. HALDEMAN, Ehrlichman, Gray about the Watergate investigation - Helms gives a very long winded response in which he tells the committee the major concern of the meeting regarding the CIA was that the FBI's investigation might in Mexico turn up information that infringed upon other CIA investigations (11:31:35) Dorsen asks about Deputy CIA Director VERNON WALTERS contact with Presidential Counsel JOHN DEAN - Helms tells the committee that Walters reported to him that Dean was attempting within the meeting to see if the CIA would help the White House beat the Whitewater rap