Richard M. Helms
Helms also came to a personal conclusion that Israel was funneling American satellite information to the Soviet Union, repeatedly telling his deputies and aides that he was convinced Israel was an 'open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow.'
Richard M. Helms served as the Director of the CIA from 1966 to 1973. He was known for his bureaucratic approach and his willingness to suppress intelligence that might displease his superiors. Helms obeyed President Lyndon B. Johnson's order to bury a CIA estimate concluding that Israel had manufactured at least four nuclear warheads. Johnson did not want to know this information, as it would compel him to act on it, and he had no intention of stopping the Israeli bomb.1
Helms also came to a personal conclusion that Israel was funneling American satellite information to the Soviet Union, repeatedly telling his deputies and aides that he was convinced Israel was an "open pipeline for pumping intelligence to Moscow."1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 14, 16. ↩
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