Richard Helms, former CIA director, passed away. Known for his intelligence career and controversies, he played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. espionage.

Former CIA Director Richard Helms, who ran afoul of Congress for failing to fully disclose the agency’s questionable activities at home and abroad, has died. He was 89.

Richard Helms, who died last week at age 89, was described by his biographer Thomas Powers as a “gentlemanly planner of assassinations.” The epithet captured the essence of the former CIA ...

WASHINGTON — CIA Director Richard Helms misled the FBI in June 1972 to cover up his agency's role in helping to smear the reputation of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked a secret history of ...

A LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency. By Richard Helms with William Hood. Random House, $35; 478 pp. AT dawn we were caught sleeping -- again. The World Trade Center ...

Richard Helms was director of Central Intelligence during some of the CIA's most tumultuous years. He was appointed by President Johnson in 1966 as CIA Director, the first career officer to get ...

When asked about the role of the CIA in the Watergate affair, Senator Howard Baker famously said, “There are animals crashing around in the forest. I can hear them but I can’t see them.” As ...

Richard Helms, the legendary director of Central Intelligence, once described his job in chillingly succinct terms: “It’s not enough to ring the bell,” he said, referring to foreign threats ...

Son of late CIA director warns there is ‘no excuse’ for far-right extremism in US ‘Those people have no idea, the history and foulness of that,” says Dennis Helms, the son of World War II ...

In a January 1963 memo, CIA Deputy Director Richard Helms informed the FBI that Gibson had told an agency source about the ideological direction of the magazine—further left—and how it planned ...

Richard Helms, shown during a White House meeting in March 1968, believed he was asked to resign after refusing to permit the CIA to be used in the coverup of the Watergate break-in. Sign up ...