Richard M. Helms, 89, the quintessential intelligence and espionage officer who joined the Central Intelligence Agency at its founding in 1947 and rose through the ranks to lead it for more than ...

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, quote, "who ...

The book explores the relationship between President Richard Nixon and his CIA director Richard Helms in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon’s humiliating resignation from ...

Washington, DC: Former CIA Director Richard Helms, right, talks with Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, chairman of the select committee on Intelligence Activities 6/13.

The declassified documents shed light on a program shrouded in secrecy since then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered most of its records destroyed in 1973.

Tim Weiner won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles he published in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the CIA’s ...

Richard Helms, who ran the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and remained the gray eminence of American spies until his death in 2002, offered a pithy piece of advice ...