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Richard Helms

Richard Helms
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United States Ambassador to Iran
In office
April 5, 1973 – December 27, 1976
President Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Preceded by Joseph S. Farland
Succeeded by William H. Sullivan
Director of Central Intelligence
In office
June 30, 1966 – February 2, 1973
President Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Deputy Rufus Taylor
Robert E. Cushman Jr.
Vernon A. Walters
Preceded by William Raborn
Succeeded by James R. Schlesinger
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
In office
April 28, 1965 – June 30, 1966
President Lyndon Johnson
Preceded by Marshall Carter
Succeeded by Rufus Taylor
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans
In office
February 17, 1962 – April 28, 1965
President John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Richard M. Bissell, Jr.
Succeeded by Desmond Fitzgerald
Personal details
Born Richard McGarrah Helms
(1913-03-30)March 30, 1913
St. Davids, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died October 23, 2002(2002-10-23) (aged 89)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place Arlington National Cemetery
Education Williams College (BA)

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) served as the United States Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from June 1966 to February 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) he rose in its ranks during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations. Helms then served as DCI under Johnson, then Nixon.

As a professional Helms highly valued information gathering (favoring the interpersonal, but including the technical, obtained by espionage or from published media) and its analysis. He also prized counterintelligence. Although a participant at planning such activities, he remained a skeptic about covert and paramilitary operations. Helms understood the bounds of his agency role as being able to express strong opinions over a decision under review, yet working as a team player once a course was set by the administration. He saw it as his duty to keep official secrets from press scrutiny. While DCI, Helms managed the agency following the lead of his predecessor John McCone. In 1977, as a result of earlier clandestine operations in Chile, he became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress. His last post in government service was Ambassador to Iran, 1973–1977. Yet he was a key witness before the Senate during its investigation of the CIA in the mid-1970s, 1975 being called the "Year of Intelligence".


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