Word: mcgarrah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...