Career
Helliwell was reported to have been instrumental in the purchase of the site for Disney World. Helliwell joined the United States Army during World World War World War II Later he transferred to the Office of Strategic Services (Office of Strategic Services). In 1943, with the rank of Colonel, he became head of the Secret Intelligence Branch of the Office of Strategic Services in Europe.
William Casey eventually replaced him in 1945.
Helliwell then became chief of the Far East Division of the War Department"s Strategic Service unit In 1947, Helliwell joined the Central Intelligence Agency. According to Daniel Hopsicker (Barry and the Boys), Helliwell ran Red Sunset Enterprises in Miami.
Hopsicker claims it was a Central Intelligence Agency front company set up to recruit frogmen and explosives experts for Operation Mongoose. Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.
Helliwell, suffering from emphysema, died of a collapsed lung at his home in Coral Gables, Florida on December 24, 1976.