PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
_County of Fairfax, ss_:
Richard Helms, being duly sworn says:
1. I am the Deputy Director for Plans of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
2. I base this affidavit on my personal knowledge of the affairs of
the Central Intelligence Agency and on detailed inquiries of those
officers and employees within my supervision who would have knowledge
about any photographs furnished by that Agency to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
3. I have personally examined the photograph which has been marked
Commission Exhibit No. 237, a copy of which is attached to the
affidavit of Inspector James R. Malley, dated July 14, 1964, and the
photograph attached to the affidavit of Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum
dated July 10, 1964.
4. Those photographs are partial copies of a photograph furnished by
the Central Intelligence Agency to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
on November 22, 1963. They are referred to as partial only because, on
information and belief, Odum and Malley personally trimmed or cropped
their copies of the photograph to exclude the background against which
the individual portrayed in these photographs is depicted in the
original photograph.
5. The figure portrayed in those photographs is the same individual
portrayed in the original photograph.
6. The original photograph was taken outside of the continental United
States sometime during the period July 1, 1963 to November 23, 1963.
Signed this 7th day of August 1964.
(S) Richard Helms.
RICHARD HELMS.