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Richard Helms, currently our Ambassador to Iran, was around Washington last week, a shadowy figure in the corridors of power. The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency was once again defending himself and the agency against charges of overstepping authority. Helms, now 61, moved about in the best traditions...
Nobody who has been that long in the spy business can be a saint. Helms knows his list of errors and misjudgments better than anybody else. At the same time, many of his successes and triumphs are not known and never will be. But the current charges of massive surveillance...
Helms sat at Lyndon Johnson's Tuesday-luncheon table, where the big decisions were made, and one of the handful of regulars there has said that it was Helms who kept them all honest. When L.B.J. would begin to perceive the world as he wanted it to be and...
It was in 1967 at that same luncheon table that Johnson began to order the CIA to pay more attention to the Viet Nam War protest groups and their foreign contacts. Johnson was convinced that the Communists were pouring money into the antiwar movement in the U.S. Helms kept going...
There was the time Helms and L.B.J. had a shouting match outside the Oval Office. Johnson had made up his mind how a certain situation had come about. Helms told him it was not so. Helms would not yield, and though Johnson walked away from that encounter sore, he developed...