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 ...

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 ...

Richard Helms, a high-ranking CIA official at the time of the assassination who later rose to become agency director, also lied to the Warren Commission when he testified in May 1964 that the ...

On June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then-CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew "who shot John ...

But when prosecutor Earl Silbert pressed Helms on the CIA ties of the burglars, the canny director never mentioned the June 23, 1972 meeting where Nixon demanded his help in shutting down the ...

The declassified documents shed light on a program shrouded in secrecy since then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered most of ...

Earlier this year, a researcher at Concordia University in St. Paul was combing through declassified CIA records and discovered an intriguing stone legacy of the Vietnam War. At the height of the ...