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...explosion of Red China's first nuclear device, its brilliant success in wiretapping Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time revelation in 1962 that Russian missile bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even more mysterious to most Americans than CIA itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate and crucial posts in official Washington-and whose name has yet to appear in Who's Who in America. Dick Helms has been, in Washington parlance, a "spook" for nearly 25 years...
...mystery was soon explained: Raborn, a retired Navy vice admiral, had gone to Texas to see President Johnson - and to hear himself named director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, replacing John A. McCone. At the same time, the President announced the appointment of Richard McGarrah Helms, 52, an experienced CIA cloak-and-dagger man, as Raborn's top deputy...
Died. Gates W. ("Silent Gates") McGarrah, 77, massive, granite-jawed financier of the old school, once chairman of the great Chase Bank's executive committee, first president of the Basel Bank of International Settlements, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the panic of '29; in Manhattan...
Starting with six banks, the B. I. S. now represents 26, and of them only France is still on free gold. Last week's meeting was to elect a successor to heavy-set President Gates W. McGarrah of Manhattan, re- tiring. Normally there would have been no question of the election of his alternate and chief adviser, Boston-born Lawyer Leon Fraser, Reparations expert at the birth of the Young Plan in 1929. In February B. I. S. directors so moved and appointed him (TIME. Feb. 27). But what about the sidestep of the U. S. from the gold...
...with conspicuous success, Gates W. Mc-Garrah hinted last January his intention to retire as President next May. Europe buzzed at first with rumors that a British subject would succeed him. Lately reporters changed their tune, asked Alternate Fraser if he knew he was going to be elected President McGarrah's successor...