Paul Lional Edward Helliwell

Paul Lional Edward Helliwell was born in 1915. He was a lawyer before he joined the United States Army during the Second World War. Later he was transferred to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) where he served under William Donovan. In 1947 Helliwell joined the Central Intelligence Agency. When Mao Zedong took power in China in 1950, Helliwell was sent to Taiwan. In 1960 Paul Helliwell was transferred to provide business cover for the CIA’s Cuban operations. Helliwell worked with E. Howard Hunt, Mitch WerBell and Lucien Conein on developing relationships with drug-dealing Cuban veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was during this period that Helliwell met Ted Shackley and Thomas Clines. Helliwell later became CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE. In this way, Shackley was able to finance unofficial CIA operations against Cuba.