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Director, Mr. Casey, to call Angleton and ask him to help out. Hathaway: We may have to go that route. What about the defection of the daughter of Joseph Stalin? This comes during your period. Helms: Right, what about that do you want to know? Hathaway: I'm curious whether you were involved in that at all? Helms : Yes, I was involved in that. Hathaway: Can you relate your involvement? H e l m s : When she defected in New Delhi--this is Svet1ana.--I .''-!" . * -<ut L..' believe that the then ambassador was Chester Bowles, and that he decided that she had to be handled by someone who could speak Russian in the and the only person that spoke Russian, I believe, was a CIA officer whose name now eludes me. In any event, it was decided to--by the Ambassador, I believe, staff, I essentially--that she would have to be got out of India. Arrangements were made to have this officer go with her I I I l w h e r c she would be held for a period until detailed arrangements could be worked out about bringing her to the United States. I believe it was in an afternoon that I got a call from Secretary of State Rusk, saying that he had just learned that she was being taken out of India, and that he wanted the whole operation halted. That he didn't want her to leave India, that he wasn't at all 19