Son of late CIA director cautions against far-right extremism in the US
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#6C2R5)
In 1945, then OSS agent Richard Helms sent son a letter on Hitler's stationery saying there can be nothing that's worse' than Nazism
A man who was three years old when his father - an American intelligence operator - sent him a letter on a vanquished Adolf Hitler's stationery has declared himself disgusted by US extremist groups who still admire the former Nazi ruler.
Those people have no idea - the history and foulness of that," Dennis Helms, the son of the late Richard Helms, the CIA director from 1966 to 1973, said of the presence of neo-Nazis and antisemitism in the US. There can be nothing that's worse ... I can't say enough bad about that."
Continue reading...