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I I apparently--and I underline "appa- rently" because I'm not positive--decided well, they how long he had lived in secret would grant him asylum and resettle him there in1 I T I Then a cable came from Headquarters, and not from your office--from somewhere lower down and I and so haven't been able to find out where--saying, "Abso- lutely not. This is intolerable. He'll talk to the press. He has to be returned to the Soviet Union." Eventually he was. There's still lingering contro- versy as to whether or not he was bona fide or not. So what I'm trying to determine is who sent that cable from Headquarters, who authorized it, and the reasons behind that, given your directive that we're going to take a "hands-off" approach. Doesn't ring a bell at all? Helms : Is that the case that the 1 were writing about I Hathaway: I had not picked that up if it were the case. Helms: I I one newspaper, establish this from the State Department. They must have had some reporting on the matter one way or the other. I was.interested to know if it was this case. U You may be interested to look into it yourself. 17