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Running Into an Irate Jerk, Er, Jock Sounds Risky to Us, but Not As Dangerous As the Life of Top Running into an irate jerk, er, jock sounds risky to us, but not as dangerous as the life of top. spy William King' Harvey. Cavil C. Marlin profiles Harvey and the frustrations he had with his boss, the Federal Government, in The American James Bond: A True Story, from the book Wilderness of Minor, due soon from Harper & Row. • _t . VERTHROW OF CASTRO is possible," Oval Office when suddenly he remem- Bobby Kennedy . told Richard bered something. Reaching behind O Helms amid the controlled chaos him, he whipped out a .38 Detective of his fifth-floor office at the Justice Special from a holster snapped to his Department. An aide to the CIA clan- belt in the small of his back and - destine services' Helms wrote rapid- handed it to the startled Secret Serv- ly to keep up with the Attorney ice agenti. General's staccato cadence. "A solu- The President left no record of his tion to the Cuban problem today car- reaction to the sight of his American ried top priority in U. S. Government. Bond—this red-faced, popeyed, bullet- No time, money, effort—or manpow- headed, 'pear-shaped man advancing er—is to be spared. Yesterday .. , the on him with a ducklike strut that was President had indicated to hint that part waddle and part swagger. Har- the final chapter had not been writ- vey's deep. gruff voice must have re- ten—it's got to be done and will be stored the President's faith in 007 done." - • . somewhat, but Ian Fleming would President John F. Kennedy was still never read the same again. •smarting from the Bay of Pigs fiasco • and, as his brother had told Helms, William Harvey's father was the was determined to settle the score. most prominent attorney in Danville. Helms's response was to place Wil- Indiana, a small town 20 miles west liam King Harvey in charge of what of Indianapolis, and his grandfather - would be known within the agency as was the founder of the local news- Task Force W. Two-gun Bill Harvey, paper. In 1936, on the strength of his foil of Soviet spy Kim Philby, fore- father's name and the endorsement MUM man of the Berlin tunnel, was the of his grandfather's newspaper, Har- CIA's heaviest hitter. Harvey's ap- vey himself ran for prosecuting attor- pointmertt, more than anything else ney in Hendricks County while still Helms could do, would convince the JAMES ONO: a student at Indiana University law Kennedy Administration that the CIA school. Despite The Danuille Gazette's to spy william harvey meant business. promise that "Billy is a keen student uncovered kim philby, Brigadier General Edward Lans- and his election would be a great AMIE tapped the berlin dale, Kennedy's "Cuba Commander," benefit to the people of Hendricks was suitably impressed. He intro- County," Harvey was a Democrat in a tunnel and conspired duced Harvey to the President as the staunchly Republican county, and he against castro- American James Bond. lost by 880 votes out of 12,000 cast. SEMI The President's enthusiasm for Ian Staying in Indiana only long but his own Fleming and the improbable- esca- enough to collect his law degree, Har- government gave pades of his British superagent, 007,- vey and his young wife, the former him thefiercest fight was well publicized, so Lansdale must Elizabeth McIntire—called Libby by have been more than a little flattered her friends—moved to the small Ohio : when John Kennedy remarked to him River town . of Maysville, Kentucky, one day that he was America's answer where he opened a one-man practice. to Bond. Lansdale, with all due mod- Harvey went through the motions, esty, demurred, suggesting that the joining the Rotary Club and working real American 007 was this fellow with the boy scouts, but he never Harvey, whom Helms had just put on - really made a go of it in Maysville. the Cuba case. Naturally, the Presi- "In a small town, you have to be nice dent wanted to meet the man, and to people and senile," said a local - before long, Harvey and Lansdale insurance broker, one of Harvey's were sitting outside the Oval Office, friends. "He didn't meet people waiting to be ushered in. , – _ well-.:. He didn't indulge in small , story, he As Lansdale told the talk. He could walk down the' street turned to Harvey and said, "You're and not speak to anybody." Harvey not carrying your gun. are you?" Of did little more than "sit around in course he was, Harvey replied, start- the office and fiddle with his collec- ing to pull a revolver from,his pants tion of guns and knives."_ pocket_ Aghast at what the Secret Service might do if this strange-look- No one was very surprised in De- ing man were suddenly to draw a cember of 1940 when Harvey left gun, Lansdale quickly told Harvey to Maysville and joined the FBI, start- keep the damn thing in his pants ing in the Pittsburgh field office. By until he could explain to the agents 1945, he had made his way to FBI that the gentleman would like to _. headquarters in Washington as part check his firearm. Harvey.turned over of a small vanguard of three agents7,- 132 the gun and was about to enter the himself, (continued on page 198) article eV DAM C. Merle ••••■■■• ILLUSTRATION BY THOMAS $NOHAM drove his car through a large puddle of AMERICO' JAMES 001111 (continued from page 132) water just as another car going in the opposite direction hit the puddle, and the engine in his car stopped. He coasted "Harvey resigned `with deepest regret,' wisely cir- to the curb but was unable to get his car cumspect given Hoover's appetite for revenge." started again and accordingly he went to sleep in his car and slept until approxi- mately ten A.M., when he awakened and Robert Collier and Lith Whitsun—tar- surveillance had begun, Hoover was proceeded to his home." Harvey insisted geted against America's ostensible ally, forced to report that his agents had that his drowsiness was not alcohol in- the Soviet Union. We were the first turned up nothing but "repeated incon- duced, and his colleagues hacked him ones to be fighting the Soviet side of it," sequential contacts" among suspected up. "Mr. Harvey stated that lie had Collier recalled. members of the spy ring. about two cans of beer, and from the It wasn't long before Harvey found An unbroken string of 18- and 24-hour recollection of others at the party, there himself sitting in a small room in New ' days spent tracking down Bentley's, leads, was no indication that Harvey was drink- York City, listening intently as a plump. had not produced a single prosecutable ing any more or any less than anyone dowdy, brown-haired woman named case of espionage. The FBI—and Har- else," the summary said. Elizabeth Bentley confessed that she vey—could proceed no further. Eventu- Nevertheless, FBI regulations required had been a courier for a Soviet spy ring. ally, a very crude and uneven sort of an agent to be on two-hour call at all If she was telling the truth, Bentley retribution would be exacted. Harry times, either leaving a number where he represented the bureau's first big break Dexter White. Assistant to the Secretary could be reached or phoning in every in combating Soviet espionage. Harvey of the Treasury, would die of a heart two hours. Harvey had violated regula- left the interrogation to other FBI agents attack in 1948, after Bentley publicly tions. The Draconian Hoover directed while he sat quietly and simply tried to named him as a member of her network, that a memo be written: "It is recom- get a feel for this woman who would and Hiss would be convicted of perjury mended that Special Agent Supervisor consume the next two years of his life. in 1950. But Harvey could foresee none William K. Harvey of the Security Divi- During 14 days of questioning, Bentley of that, and in the summer of 1947, his sion be transferred to Indianapolis on reeled off the names of more than 100 exhaustion and frustration boiled over general assignment." Hoover scribbled people linked to the Soviet underground in an incident that resulted in his being "OK" at the bottom. in the United States and Canada. "Fifty- dealt with more harshly than any of Rather than accept the transfer, Har- one of these persons were deemed of Bentley's suspects. vey submitted his resignation "with the sufficient importance to warrant investi- Thundershowers, heavy at times, had deepest regret," citing "personal and gative attention by the bureau," an FBI fallen throughout the evening of July family considerations" and speaking of memo stated. "Of those 51 individuals, 11. It was past midnight and another the "pride and personal satisfaction" of 27 were employed in agencies of the downpour washed over the city as Har- having been an FBI agent—remarkably vey headed his car across the Potomac U. S. Government." One of those 27 was restrained, considering the circumstances, River into Washington. A second car named Alger Hiss. but wisely circumspect given Hoover's In a few years, the name Hiss would splashed along in Harvey's wake, follow- ing him home from an FBI stag party appetite for revenge. be on every tongue, but to Bill Harvey Cast out from the inner sanctum of in 1945, Hiss was only one of several in a Virginia suburb.
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