Richard Helms Quotes
I would assume the case will never be closed.
United States, Warren Commission. Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Vol. 5, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 124.
The military were furious with him and tried to discredit him. But he had won the Pulitzer Price for Journalism twice and his view was read and considered by many. He tuned out to have been right and an uneasy cessation of hostilities and a divided Korea with 40,000 American troops at the border existed 60 years later in the longest military stalemate of the 20th century.
Bacon argued that only personal experience or experiment would remove doubt.
The JFK autopsy was very sloppily handled. So much so that the president’s brain had been removed and was missing at the time of the investigation and has never been located. That in itself is so hard to believe that it was just incompetence. The Texas criminal justice structure was not very sophisticated.
Richard McGarrah Helms was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) he rose in its ranks during the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon.
