Item NUCLEAR AGE 11/53 - Interview with Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, 1986

Typescript transcript of interview with Richard McGarrah Helms, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1962-1965, Deputy Director and Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1965-1973, and US Ambassador to Iran, 1973-1976, relating to the US opinion of the government of Cuba and of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1961-1962; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960; the discovery of the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the increase in production of Soviet Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), 1964-1965; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963.