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Richard Helms may be the closest thing to a master spy that America can claim. He was not a James Bond, roaming the world in exotic machines, wooing (and always winning) dazzling women, vanquishing villains beneath the sea and in the air. Perhaps he came closer to "M," Bond'...
Though Helms retired from the intelligence business in 1973, his mind and his heart still explore the world, striking flinty sparks when they encounter in the newspapers old adversaries from the Kremlin or East Germany or Cuba. For 31 years Dick Helms fought the silent war with terrorists, killers, subversives...
So in the warm, moist nights of last week, Dick Helms sipped a little Iranian vodka (straight over ice) and played a little bridge with his family (he made four spades with ease). He lunched with old agency colleagues, who gave him a long, standing ovation and, over his protests...
What neither Congress nor the bureaucracy could take away from Helms was three decades of memories, challenge and exhilaration-a record beyond the grasp of people like Senator Frank Church, an unrelenting Helms critic. Helms helped tug the strings that toppled the left-leaning Mossadegh in Iran and brought 25...
Helms worked on the U-2 project, which brought us our first aerial photographic views of Soviet military capability and later warned us of the Cuban missile crisis. He was part of the undercover seduction of Soviet Spies Oleg Penkovsky and Pyotr Popov, the former passing along a manual on...