Richard Helms
✓ Source-basedstableDirector of the Central Intelligence Agency (1913-2002)
United StatesLived 1913 to 2002 · aged 89Fame54.0
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Richard McGarrah Helms was an American government official, intelligence officer, and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973 as well as United States Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976.
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Helms wrote a letter to his son Dennis, celebrating V-E Day, on stationery which had belonged to Adolf Hitler.
William Colby ran the Far East and Soviet desks at the CIA under Helms and administered the Phoenix Program under Helms.
Vietnamese peasants detained on suspicion of Viet Cong affiliation as part of the Phoenix Program.
Helms repeatedly expressed skepticism over the official Israeli explanation for the USS Liberty incident.![During the final years of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency, Helms became a trusted advisor and participant in weekly lunch meetings.[152]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Richard_Helms.jpg)
During the final years of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency, Helms became a trusted advisor and participant in weekly lunch meetings.[152]
Operation CHAOS was the investigation of alleged foreign infiltration of the anti-war movement via tactics which were dubiously legal under the CIA charter.
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger supplanted Helms as chief intelligence advisor to the president.Awards 1
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Lived 1913 to 2002 · aged 89
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