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...Felt and Miller separately from Gray, partly because they claim that they acted on Gray's orders. It appears that Felt and Miller will go to trial, but since prosecuting Gray would bring out very sensitive national security information, the Justice Department now concedes that the ex-director may never be tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When Are Secrets Best Kept? | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Helms' sympathizers argued that the ex-director was the victim of a change in the rules in the middle of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Helms Makes a Deal | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

William E. Colby, ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, defended the CIA's involvement in Chile and Vietnam last night before a crowd of over 300 at the Harvard Law School Forum and defined the current role of the CIA as intelligence-gathering rather than "spy and adventure...

Author: By Jennifer A. Aron, | Title: Ex-CIA Director Colby Defends Agency at Forum | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...secrecy from all but a handful of CIA officials. Church committee staffers are investigating reports that the CIA prepared detailed plans to poison Congolese Radical Leader Patrice Lumumba in 1960 and even shipped an undetermined quantity of poison, possibly the shellfish toxin, to the African nation. Richard Bissell, ex-director of covert operations for the CIA, told a reporter last week that the agency had investigated "the feasibility of an action of that kind" but abandoned the idea "for various operational reasons." He insisted the CIA was not involved in Lumumba's assassination by Congolese rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Of Dart Guns and Poisons | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...present little economic adjustment. They make up the champagne casualties - the affluent walking wounded. Sandy Campbell is an ex-vice president of a mutual fund, shot down with the market. Jack Carmody is an ex-ad-agency ace, gone up in smoke with his TV cigarette accounts. Sam Deitsch is a dress manufacturer who laid it on the hemline for the midi. Harry Price is all the has-beens rolled into one: ex-movie star, ex-producer, ex-director - ex-box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase II Fallout | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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