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In 1979, Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, testified under oath that Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service (DCS) of the CIA, where Shaw volunteered information from his travels abroad, mostly to Latin America.
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During a 1979 libel suit involving the book Coup D'Etat In America, Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, testified under oath that Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service of the CIA, where Shaw volunteered information from his travels abroad, mostly to Latin America.
- March 1, 1969; 54 years ago
- Edward Haggerty
- State of Louisiana v. Clay L. Shaw
- Not guilty
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In 1979, RICHARD HELMS, director of Covert Operations in 1963, admitted under oath that CLAY SHAW had worked for the CIA. Not atypically, Oliver Stone is dead wrong. In 1979, former CIA Director Richard Helms was deposed as a witness in a libel case related to Michael Canfield and A. J. Weberman's book, Coup d'état in America.
Because Guy Banister had succumbed to a heart attack in 1964, that left only one person to indict, Clay Shaw. Shaw would be the most difficult of the New Orleans group to convict. He was receiving help from CIA Director, Richard Helms. Damning proof of Helms's concern about Shaw surfaced in 1975.
Oct 14, 2005 · It says that in 1979, Richard Helms, who was director of central intelligence at the time of the Shaw prosecution, admitted that contrary to the defendant's testimony, Shaw had "worked for"...
Jun 1, 2004 · On March 1 Garrison ordered the arrest of Clay Shaw, one of New Orleans's most esteemed and civic-minded businessmen, for conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy.
Jan 18, 2022 · However, Clay Shaw lied throughout his trial, saying that he never in his life had ever worked for the CIA. As I substantiated in my book Mary’s Mosaic (3rd edition, p.447), I submit that this debate ended in 1979 when CIA Director Richard Helms admitted under oath in a subsequent deposition (that involved E. Howard Hunt’s lawsuit with ...
