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  Richard Helms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973.
Helms' ultimate undoing was the CIA role in the subversion of Chilean democracy and the overthrow, under Nixon's orders, of that country's president Salvador Allende in 1973.
Helms' answers to Congress on the CIA's role in the Chilean affair were proved to be false and he was prosecuted and convicted in 1977.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Helms   (585 words)

  
 Richard Helms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (The head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency) from 1966 to 1973.
Helms was born in Philadelphia (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) in 1913.
Helms' ultimate undoing was the CIA role in the subversion of Chile (A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast) an democracy and the overthrow, under Nixon's orders, of that country's president Salvador Allende (additional info and facts about Salvador Allende) in 1973.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_helms.htm   (542 words)

  
 Helms Dead
Richard Helms, the spymaster who led the CIA through some of its most difficult years and was later fired by President Nixon when he refused to block an FBI probe into the Watergate scandal, is dead.
Helms defended his testimony by maintaining that his mission was to protect intelligence secrets and that he'd not been obliged to tell the truth to Senate committees that held no CIA oversight power.
Helms was forced out of the agency in 1973 by President Nixon, who considered him insufficiently cooperative in providing C.I.A. support to the Watergate cover-up, although the agency had been criticized in Congress and in the press for having been too cozy with Nixon aides in their quest to silence or destroy political enemies.
www.mindcontrolforums.com /news/helms.htm   (2276 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Richard Helms
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 –; April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Richard Helms, who has died aged 89, is the only director of the Central Intelligence Agency to have been convicted of lying to Congress about the organisation's undercover activities.
Helms rejected the approach, but then the Navy Department was asked for a German-speaking officer with a journalistic background, and in August 1943 Helms was posted to the OSS.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Helms   (2306 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Richard Helms
Helms maintained to the last that he had had no choice, that his overriding responsibility was to US national security.
Helms was convinced that the new body's often naive entanglement with émigré organisations threatened the life and work of the far more effective agents employed by his OSO.
Helms was made Raborn's deputy but, when Raborn quickly demonstrated that he was wholly out of his depth, Helms assumed effective control.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,817803,00.html   (1732 words)

  
 HSCA Testimony of Richard Helms
HELMS, Well I think one of the more compelling reasons was that since it had had through the years the responsibility for carrying on liaison with the FBI, that it was in a better position and used to dealing with that Agency and therefore it was sensible to have them continue to.
HELMS - No. I believe that it was in 1967 that the decision was made or I made the decision if you would prefer that, that the case simply could not go on in that fashion it had to be resolved.
HELMS - I think the conclusion which is logical is that in trying to wrap up the case and come forward with a recommendation that a polygraph test and all other kinds of investigative techniques would have been brought to bear in an effort to make a good tidy package.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /russ/jfkinfo2/jfk4/hscahelm.htm   (21879 words)

  
 Richard McGarrah Helms, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy & Director of Central Intelligence
Helms was the first career intelligence professional to serve as the nation's top spymaster, and he was among the last of the remaining survivors of the CIA's organizing cadre, operatives who earned their espionage stripes as young men during World War II.
Helms' directorship, as the war in Vietnam and the antiwar protests were both escalating, Johnson asked the CIA to determine whether antiwar activity in the United States was being financially or otherwise backed by foreign countries.
Helms and Nixon was never smooth, and in November of 1972, shortly after he had been elected to his second term, the president summoned his CIA chief to a meeting at Camp David and asked him to resign.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rmhelms.htm   (6734 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Richard Helms
Richard M. Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 22, 2002) was head of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1966 to 1973.
Helms was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1913.
In 1936, a year after he graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, he was sent by United Press to help cover the Berlin Olympic Games; he had spent two of his high school years at the prestigious Institute Le Rosey in Switzerland where he learned to speak German and French.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Richard_Helms   (546 words)

  
 Richard Helms
DCI Allen Dulles commences MKULTRA at the instigation of Richard Helms.
Richard M. Nixon fires Richard Helms, after Helms is loyal to CIA and not Nixon, over Watergate issues.
Richard Helms dies from multiple myeloma at his home in Washington, DC.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/richard-helms   (322 words)

  
 Review | Joker Poker by Richard Helms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Helms seems to want to tell it all, and ends up including not just the kitchen sink, but the bathtub, the washing machine and the shower stall, as well.
Helms has a real knack for creating memorable characters and he introduces a slew of them here, beyond his main protagonist.
Helms may have some great stories to tell, and a deft hand at telling them, but he has to learn not to try to tell them all at once.
www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/jokerpoker.html   (1313 words)

  
 Helms, Richard McGarrah. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was one of the architects of the legislation creating (1947) the OSS’s successor, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and he became its chief expert on espionage operations.
Helms served as both CIA deputy director (1965–66) and director (1966–73).
The most controversial events overseen by Helms during his directorship were the Watergate affair and the U.S.-aided coup in Chile that overthrew Salvador Allende.
www.bartleby.com /65/he/Helms-Ri.html   (174 words)

  
 Studies in Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard Helms, the eighth Director of Central Intelligence (1966-1973) who died in Washington on 23 October 2002 at the age of 89, embodied those qualities.
Helms recalled that at meetings in the Johnson White House, “[t]he other people present had to be a little careful about the way they pushed their individual causes.
Helms said that although some aspects of the first operation “went too far,” he believed that refusing that presidential order was pointless; he would have been fired and the assignment given to someone else to carry out, perhaps with unhealthy zeal.
www.cia.gov /csi/studies/vol46no4/article06.html   (4919 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Richard Helms -- October 23, 2002
President Nixon removed Helms as director of the CIA in 1973, reportedly because the agency would not cooperate in the Watergate cover-up.
When Helms was the DCI, we had an aggressive war in Vietnam and deeply involved in ongoing intelligence on a daily basis about how the war was going and that set the tone while he was actually DCI.
Helms was unusual in the fact that he lived through the entire thing from day one to the last day and then ten years beyond.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/july-dec02/helms_10-23.html   (1278 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] Richard Helms, Former CIA Director, 89   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Helms was in declining health and died at his home on Tuesday.
After Helms resisted attempts by Nixon to involve the CIA in the Watergate scandal, which ultimately brought down his presidency, the CIA chief was not reappointed to his post.
Helms pleaded guilty and was given a suspended jail sentence.
slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-October/000275.html   (367 words)

  
 Former CIA Chief Richard Helms Dead
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Helms, the spymaster who led the CIA through some of its most difficult years and was later fired by President Nixon when he refused to block an FBI probe into the Watergate scandal, is dead.
Helms for poor judgment for destroying documents and tape recordings that might have assisted Watergate investigators.
Helms is survived by a son, Dennis Helms, of Princeton, N.J. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner.
www.mindcontrolforums.com /helms-dead.htm   (1752 words)

  
 Richard Helms and BCCI
BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi used Irvani as one of his front men in the acquisition of Financial General Bankshares, and the incorporation of Richard Helms' Safeer Company was initially a means to this end.
Helms, of course, was CIA director from 1966-1973, and then ambassador to Iran until January, 1977.
Richard Mullens, whom you met in Washington, reviewed the documents carefully and states that in signing them you are not running undue risks.
www.namebase.org /foia/helms.html   (843 words)

  
 village voice > news > Mondo Washington by Camelia Fard & James Ridgeway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Helms argues that foreign observers have forgotten conditions in the country following the war against the Soviets.
Helms has little regard for Osama bin Laden, whom she sneeringly refers to as a "tractor driver." She says he was inherited by the Taliban and is widely viewed as a "hang nail."
Acknowledging that Laili Helms does a lot of lobbying on behalf of the Taliban, this source said Helms does not speak to the Taliban for the U.S. In the realpolitik of Bush foreign policy, the Taliban may have improved its chances for an opening of relations with the rest of the world.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0124/ridgeway.php   (2249 words)

  
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During the 1940's, "Richard Helms," according to biographical materials now available, is reported to have been working for naval intelligence on a special basis (involving unusual concessions, privileges and secrecy re: his records).
As "Helms" at CIA, Hughes would also have been in a position to favor new and previously dismissed reports that the war could be won in a matter of months, had he chosen to do so.
Remember, "Richard Helms'" father worked for the Mellons… One irony in this case is that Mellons, along with Rockefeller and Morgan interests, were competitors of the Du Pont family in supporting JFK’s attempt to reduce Du Pont ownership of GM from a 23% interest to a 19% interest.
www.newsmakingnews.com /helmslobuono.htm   (9569 words)

  
 MURDERS IN THE VIEUX CARRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Richard Helms was taught to read at age four by his mother, and was devouring every book he could get his
Richard’s writing pursuits were sidelined in his teens, when he deliberated between becoming an actor or a
Richard Helms is a regular panel presenter at SleuthFest, Bouchercon, the Deadly Ink Mystery Conference,
hometown.aol.com /murdvoocarre/MurdVooCarre.html   (656 words)

  
 Richard Helms
With the death of former CIA director Richard Helms, the corporate media is offering a rare glimpse into the CIA's use of political assassinations.
Although 32 of the 98 recent stories on Richard Helms (found using a Google media search) mention the term "assassination," not one of these articles mentions any of the following terms that are equally relevant to CIA operations: torture, murder, arrest.
Only 4 of the 98 recent stories on Helms mention the term "coup." In one case, the article uses the term to praise Helms, saying he scored a "journalistic coup" when he interviewed Adolph Hitler in 1935.
coat.ncf.ca /articles/links/richard_helms_october_2002.htm   (4791 words)

  
 Richard Helms - Joker Poker
Helms is obviously a fan of the Chandler, Hammett, and Spillane version of the PI novel and he's captured the genre well.
"A promising new private eye was unleashed in Richard Helms' JOKER POKER in the guise of Pat Gallegher...an engaging and promising debut...
It was not designed to revolutionize the art of the hardboiled novel, nor was it an attempt to enlarge the PI territory and its ethics.
www.murderexpress.net /richardhelms/joker.htm   (346 words)

  
 Richard Helms and the Pat Gallegher Mystery Series
Richard Helms and the Pat Gallegher Mystery Series
Richard Helms is proud to announce the release of the second book in his thrilling Eamon Gold PI series,
Richard Helms was an accomplished racing driver - for 28 years!
hometown.aol.com /murdvoocarre   (253 words)

  
 prima facie: Richard Helms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thomas Powers, "The Rise and Fall of Richard Helms; Survival and Sudden Death in the CIA," Rolling Stone, Dec. 16, 1976.
The Shah had been put in power by the CIA in a bloody coup engineered in Washington, DC, in part by Helms himself.
In recent years the aging Helms has kept a low profile, save for some rather chalky remarks at the time of the curious death of his successor at the CIA, WILLIAM COLBY.
www.subliminal.org /mugbook/spooks/helms.html   (290 words)

  
 Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power
Helms went on to work closely with General Reinhard Gehlen, the notorious Nazi spymaster who was hired by US intelligence
Although Helms held the post of Director of the CIA during the height of this mass serial assassination program, none of the 98 recent stories on Helms, found with the google search engine, even mention Phoenix.
It is astonishing how many tough-minded men in American government have been convinced by the regular spiel that the CIA has a deeprooted antipathy to proposals for political murder.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/51/217.html   (4444 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Richard McGarrah Helms (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Richard McGarrah Helms (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Richard McGarrah Helms 1913–2002, U.S. government official, b.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Richard McGarrah Helms
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Helms-Ri.html   (243 words)

  
 AMATAS - Richard Helms
Well it seems that even Dick Helms was human after all, a fact many questioned until now, when his life came to an end.
As the Director of CIA during the Nixon years, he oversaw the overthrow of Allende's Chilean government and previously had played roles in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Mongoose and was the first person appointed DCI to have risen through the ranks at Langley.
As the Man Who Kept The Secrets, he now appears to have taken them to the grave, as Harold Jackson reveals…
www.uclan.ac.uk /amatas/media/boys30.htm   (90 words)

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