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Washington, April 28 (News Bureau)—Former CIA:D. .
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, . .irec_ or Richard M. Helms was examined for hours todayby the Rockefeller Commission about charges that the spyagency had carried out ' '
_ - assassinations of foreign leaders.
" Aft d '
e CIA was never responsible
for the assassination of any for-
eign leader. That is my honest
belief," Helms, now U.S. ambas-
sador to Iran, spent 3% hoursi
before the commission,‘ the long-
before the‘ commission, the long-
est time of any of the,"-14 wit-
nesses who have testified during
the panel's 16-week probe of the
erwar , the bitterly denounced a TV newsman whohad report_ed the story. ‘
.“AS far as K know," he Said’ gen for a ’_CIA__ plot aimed atii“th '
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uban Premier Fidel Castro
Johnson siad these things,"
Helms said. "
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Helms said he had been quizz-ed on a wide range of subjects
by the commission. He did notelaborate. However, the commis-sion staff has had? a chance to
analyze Helms’ preivous testi-
mony and there may have l een'
some discrepancies that. theywishedt ~ ' ‘
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CBS reporter Daniel Schorr of ‘
(alse reports concerning CIA_ in-;_- "
v_olvem'ent in foreign assass'n'a
rtions; It was Schorr who first’
;repoi'ted that Presidetn- Fordiwas concerned that the CIA-
investigation would disclose. that"
'the spy agency had a role. in the
assassination of three foreign
leaders. _
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“Killer Scliorr! Killer Schorr!"
Helms said loudly as he walked
down the hallway with reporters,
following -his appearance before
the Rockefeller commission. i
Later, during a press confer-‘i
ence wlien.Schorr asked a ques-;
tion on a subject unrelated to.
the assassinations, Helms would
only reply: “I don’t like some of
the lies you’ve been putting on
the air." ~
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Bristles at Question '
Helms bn'stled' when reporters
asked him if there had ever been
discussions in the CIA plotting
the assassinations of foreign
leaders.
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“That's like asking me if I’ve: '
ltopped beating my wife," Helms‘
said. “'I‘here were always discus-
sions of everything. Two men
) may have sat in the State De-'.
partment or the Defense Depart-
ment and discussed things that
may not be acceptable to the
American people. That happens
all the -time."
Helms was asked to comment.
on reports that former President;
Johnson told several colleagues;
he believed the assassination o"
John F. Kennedy was in retalia:
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