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Hathaway: He is the KGB illegal who was arrested in1 I 7 1 He was d e t a i n e d i l f o r a - I I couple of years and then returned to the Soviet Union in 1969. years, had become convinced that he was not bona fide, had i l w h o then arrested him. Do you have any recollection at all of this case? We had worked with 1 Ifor a number of Helms : No. You might tell me the reason you're asking, but I don't . . . maybe that will trigger something in my mind but for some reason I don't take exception to anything you say. I'm sure there was a case like this but I don't remember the details. Hathaway: This is one of the things I'm interested in. Many of these cases probably never even got to your desk. This one did, but it may have just been something that was mentioned in passing. The reason I ask is that it apparently came to your attention only at the very end, when the question became "what do we do with this guy?" He refused to confess. Eventually it came to a point where "we can't hold him indefinitely, 7 1 7 1 But 7 1 took the attitude all along.that "we're willing to do whatever you want to do." You sent the word out that this is really the 1 - 1 matter. "We' re going to have a completely 'hands-off' approach." Then somewhere at th,e very end--and this is where it gets . all murky, this is the reason for my q u e s t i o n s - u i 16