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i believe I decided that this would be bad, that if it ever became public that we'd attempted to resolve this case by drugging the man, it would make a very bad public impression and even maybe a bad impression in the Congress. So I just decided to knock it off. Hathaway: Before it was ever started. Helms: Yeah. Before it was ever done. Hathaway: Two documents I just ran across last week, I thought were revealing of your attitudes--if they in fact do reflect your attitudes. Both the documents were . r * o c , . written by people in the CI Staff--not Angleton, but people right below Angleton. in which the Nosenko case is finally being resolved, the end of '68, early 1969. Both documents suggest Both date from the time ..I-). that you were angered at the CI Staff for not docu- menting their case, not documenting their suspicions. They used phrases such as you "severely tasked" the CI Staff for not presenting its case against PJosenko better; you "rather tartly" criticized CI Staff. Do you remember these sorts of feelings? Helms: Well, I don't remember those specific points. The only impression that I have of that particular period was that I was confronted with a very difficult decision and I did not feel that I was getting all the information I really needed to help me make the decision, and that therefore if I was, as you say, being tart and so forth, it was simply because I felt 13