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JUL 1 2004

June 25, 2004

Dr. Henry Kissinger
c/o Theresa Cimino
350 Park Avenue
Twenty-Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Enclosed is a copy of the fully-signed foreword agreement for *A Look Over My Shoulder*.

1745 Broadway, New York, New York 10019 TEL: (212) 782-9000

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November 7, 2003

Dr. Henry Kissinger
c/o Theresa Cimino
350 Park Avenue
Twenty-Sixth Floor
New York, New York 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

This letter will confirm the agreement between you and us regarding publication of your foreword (referred to as the "Foreword") to a work entitled A LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER by Richard Helms and William Hood (referred to as the "Work") as follows:

1. We acknowledge that you have delivered a complete copy of the Foreword in the English language of eight pages in length, satisfactory to us.

2. You hereby grant to us during the full term of copyright, including renewals and extensions thereof, the exclusive right throughout the world to print, publish and sell the Foreword, as part of and as contained in the Work, in any medium or manner we desire and the right to license others to do the same.

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BERTELSMANN

November 7, 2003

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

RE: **Agreement for your foreword to A Look Over**
**My Shoulder** by Richard Helms

Random House asks you to sign the attached original and three copies
of what they call "a formality" ensuring that the foreword you wrote for
Helms book will be copyrighted in your name.

By signing:

-- You state that the foreword is original material that has not
been previously published.

-- You agree to have the foreword published and reprinted as
part of the book, in any medium or manner Random House wishes to
license it.

-- You understand that the foreword will be published with the
copyright notice in your name.

-- You understand that, according to your request, your fee of
$1,000 was donated on your behalf to the CIA Officers Memorial
Foundation.

Dennis Gish says that the agreement looks okay to him but reminds
that he is not an attorney and wonders if you would prefer an attorney
to review it before you sign.

No attorney review necessary; I will sign [see attached
documents; 4 signatures required]

Would like an attorney to review agreement first

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RANDOM HOUSE

BERTELSMANN

Robert D. Loomis
Vice-President &
Executive Editor

February 25, 2003

Marvin Josephson
ICM
40 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

Dear Marvin:

As perhaps you know, Henry Kissinger has written a short foreword to Richard Helms's autobiography *A Look Over My Shoulder* which we will publish this next season. Unfortunately, Dick died just a few weeks ago and so he won't be around to enjoy the reactions to his book, which I'm sure will be good. In any event, through the auspices of Cynthia Helms, Dr. Kissinger agreed to write a foreword or introduction – but because of the way it all came about we never made any prior arrangements with him about a possible payment or whether his piece should be copyrighted separately.

His foreword is about 1,000 words long, I would judge, and I think we should offer him $1,000 for it and then you can tell me whether we should copyright the introduction separately in his name.

I would appreciate it if you could let me know if such an arrangement is satisfactory – and whether we should copyright the piece separately.

REVISED-2/20/03

Foreword
by Henry A. Kissinger

America's relationship to its intelligence activities has always
been ambivalent. Secure behind two vast oceans for most of its
history, its margin of survival was so great that it felt liberated from
the need for precise information required by less fortunate nations.
Thus America's attitude toward intelligence was aloof, if not reluctant,
leaving it in embryonic form to the military services. "Gentlemen do
not read each other's mail" was Secretary of State Henry Stinson's
verdict in 1929 when he disapproved funding for the department's
code-breaking unit.

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World War II and the Cold War changed these attitudes. Long-range nuclear weapons shrank the American margin of safety and created the danger of surprise attack; Communist ideology merged foreign and domestic threats. Terrorism added a new dimension of privatized danger. Groups heretofore considered private or at least nongovernmental - such as political parties and, more recently, terrorist cells - were in a position to pose threats to the national security and to the global balance of power. Precise information became a condition of survival. And covert operations were needed to deal with threats in the gray area between diplomacy and military strategy - a type of intelligence in which the American government had no expertise and the American public no experience.

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Richard Helms was a key figure in the building of America's intelligence capability for this new world. He gives a gripping account of the 35 years during which he rose through the ranks at the Central Intelligence Agency, mostly in the Directorate of Plans, which recruits and trains foreign agents and conducts covert operations. Appointed Director of Central Intelligence by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966, Helms continued in office under President Richard Nixon until relieved of his position in February 1973 in a move of surpassing pettiness six weeks before he would have reached the automatic retirement age of 60.

After his death in October 2002, some obituaries snidely described Richard Helms as the holder of secrets, as if this inevitable aspect of intelligence work reflected his character or his predisposition.

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Those of us who observed Dick over the decades and who admired his
patriotism, his dedication, and his character, regretted that his sense
of duty prevented the nation from sharing his accomplishments. This
Helms has now remedied in this thoughtful book.

As National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State under
President Nixon, I consulted with Dick on a daily basis as DCI and
regularly, under President Ford, in his subsequent post as ambassador
to Iran. There was no public servant I trusted more or who
contributed more to the understanding of the challenges facing our
nation.

No department head has a more difficult assignment than the
Director of Central Intelligence. He wears two partly incompatible
hats: He heads the Agency, which is responsible for the collection of

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intelligence on foreign countries and the conduct of covert operations;
at the same time, he is Director of Central Intelligence for the entire
United States Government. In the latter capacity, he has to
coordinate the actions of his own department with the separate - and
occasionally competitive - intelligence activities of the State and
Defense Departments and other agencies charged with intelligence-
gathering by technical means.

All department heads are technically under the authority of the
President. But the Director of Central Intelligence, unlike his
colleagues, is not to have a stake in the political fortunes of the
administration in office; he represents "objective" truth on matters
where objectivity is itself often at issue. The DCI must be prepared to
challenge the favorite theses of powerful political personalities.

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Dick Helms navigated these shoals with remarkable skill and extraordinary integrity. Each administration presents a unique challenge to the intelligence community, reflecting differences in personality and political outlook. Helms' account is fascinating, acute, and subtle about the various administrations in which he served: the increasing reliance on covert operations in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Richard Nixon's ambiguous attitude toward the Central Intelligence Agency and its director.

President Nixon's view of Helms reflected his characteristic ambivalence. On the one hand, he considered the position of DCI nonpolitical, and when he assumed the presidency, he emphasized continuity by reappointing Helms. At the same time, he regarded Helms as a member of the "Georgetown social set," which Nixon

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believed - not incorrectly - to be more sympathetic to Democratic
administrations than to his own. He therefore coupled Helms'
reappointment with an attempt to insulate him from the policy
process: The DCI was to attend National Security Council meetings
only to give a briefing; once discussion turned to policy, he was to
leave the Cabinet Room. Helms accepted this directive, which it fell to
me to convey, with characteristic discipline albeit slightly raised
eyebrows. In the event, Nixon was so impressed by Helms' briefings
that he wanted to hear his views on policy - or at least the CIA's
assessment of the consequences of various policy options, which is
what policy discussions, in the end, are all about. Nixon solved the
problem after an early NSC meeting by inviting Helms after a briefing
to join the group for lunch.

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From that point on, Dick Helms was an integral member of the
NSC team. The Agency under his leadership was indispensable in
supplying analyses and - even when I thought they stuck too closely
to conventional wisdom - beyond criticism as to its motives. As time
went on, Helms was given many opportunities for private meetings at
the White House, most frequently with me, to make sure that all the
implications of his department's recommendations were available to
the President. It was also Helms' responsibility to report which, if any,
American agents abroad might cause foreign policy difficulties if
exposed. (For reasons of security and deniability, we preferred not to
know their names unless they fell into this category.) Helms' conduct
with respect to this sensitive issue was impeccable.

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The CIA's role in covert operations became controversial at the end of Helms' tenure. Traditional diplomacy seeks to affect the conduct of states; military force exists to sustain the balance of power. But during the Cold War – and now again in today's war against terrorism – the threat often comes from non-state actors, such as political parties or terrorist groups, financed from abroad.

The CIA did not deserve the opprobrium various investigations heaped on it. Most of its operations were designed to prevent radical forces from taking over countries considered important to American security and interests and where our adversaries had instruments of action not available to us. Not all were well-designed, but all were approved – and, in the most controversial cases, ordered – by the

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presidents of every Cold War administration, even when the paperwork
was conducted to provide deniability.

After Helms left office, he and some of his colleagues came
under attack for having been assigned to defend these new and
intangible frontiers - which their superiors had defined for them - on
behalf of a society accustomed to more conventional enemies. The
men and women who undertook these thankless tasks, veiled in a
secrecy imposed on them by their superiors, were deprived of credit
and, as it turned out, the protection to which they were entitled. Their
actions were often challenged well after the event when the necessities
that had given rise to them could be recalled only with difficulty by a
new generation.

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Dick Helms became one of the most prominent victims. He was
charged with having committed perjury while testifying before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee during confirmation proceedings
for his appointment as ambassador to Iran. Following established
procedures, Helms had denied covert operations before a committee
not authorized to receive such information. But in classified hearings,
he had already briefed the members of Congress in the House and
Senate designated by the congressional leadership for that purpose -
including the SFRC member who had posed the incriminating
questions. It was a grievous injustice, rectified to some extent when
President Ronald Reagan awarded Helms the National Security Medal
in 1982* and later came to dinner at his house.

* This needs to be checked.

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Helms discusses this episode that was to blight his life for many
years without self-pity. He was proud of all aspects of his service, as
he had every right to be. His lodestar was a sense of duty, his
motivating force public service. There was no public servant I
respected more. It was an honor to be Richard Helms' colleague; it
enhanced my life to be his friend.

Theresa Cimino

From: Jessee Incao [jincao@kmaglobal.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:38 PM
To: 'Theresa Cimino'
Subject: FW: Kissinger Foreword

Helms
oreword.doc (28 KB)

Just so you have it.

-----Original Message-----

From: Jody Williams [mailto:jiw3824@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:46 AM
To: jincao@kmaglobal.com
Subject: Fw: Kissinger Foreword

Jessee -

Just sent this off.

Per Chris, they were going to get on the road around 10:30 - I don't envy him being the driver...

Hope your commute wasn't too ghastly. I'll try to give you a call in a bit.

xxx
Jody

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Jody Williams <jiw3824@juno.com>
To: dtroiano@randomhouse.com
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:40:36 -0500
Subject: Kissinger Foreword
Message-ID: <20030218.104038.-438041.0.jiw3824@juno.com>

Dominique,

Dr. Kissinger's foreword for the Helms' book is attached - 12 pages.

Please call me at home, 703/941-4072, should there be any problems in the transmission or you have any questions.

I am also e-mailing a copy to Jessee Incao in our NY office (759-7919) - who will be in eventually today, if she isn't already.

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## Foreword

by Henry A. Kissinger

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World War II and the Cold War changed these attitudes. Long-range nuclear weapons shrank the American margin of safety and created the danger of surprise attack; Communist ideology merged foreign and domestic threats. Terrorism added a new dimension of privatized danger. Groups heretofore considered private or at least nongovernmental – such as political parties and, more recently, terrorist cells – were in a position to pose threats to the national security and to the global balance of power. Precise information became a condition of survival. And covert operations were needed to deal with threats in the gray area between diplomacy and military strategy – a type of intelligence in which the American government had no expertise and the American public no experience.

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After his death in September 2002, some obituaries snidely described Richard Helms as the holder of secrets, as if this inevitable aspect of intelligence work reflected his character or his predisposition.

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President, even when the paperwork was conducted to provide
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* This needs to be checked.

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REMINDER: You SAID YOU WOULD DO THIS
THIS WEEK.

RE: **Foreword for Richard Helms' book, *A Look Over My Shoulder***

Mr. Helms' publisher has called to say they are nearly ready to go to print and need to have your foreword quickly if you still want to do it (as you told Mrs. Helms you would).

You took the manuscript to Kent a bit ago, but I can request another copy if you need one.

They are looking for "a short appreciation of Helms and the book itself" rather than a substantial critique of the book.

How would you like to handle? (If you provide some language, perhaps Suzanne can draft something today.)

Have Suzanne draft something using the following language: I'll do it next week

Get me another copy of the ms.; I will draft something myself

Prefer:

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From Bill Hood:

Kissinger should read:

Preface — lets reader know it's not a history and hints at the flavor of the book

Chapter 2 — Helms studies in Germany

Chapters 10 and 11 — talks about covert action Kissinger might be interested in

Chapter 16 and 17 — discusses Bay of Pigs

Chapter 22 — talks about directive of intelligence

Chapter 30 — last few pages discusses Israel and the atomic bomb

Chapter 36 — Important — talks about Nixon and Allende, Kissing played role

Chapter 39 — talks about Kissinger asking Helms what exactly happened at Camp David

Chapter 41 — details Kissinger's visit to Tehran

Chapter 42 — some references to Kissinger