A LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency. By Richard Helms with William Hood. Random House, $35; 478 pp. AT dawn we were caught sleeping -- again. The World Trade Center ...

They Did Not Die in Vain: Venezuela and the Dream of Cuban Exiles Will Assisted Suicide Coupled with Organ Harvesting Come to the U.S.? When America Starts to Get a Little Motion Ten Quick Thoughts on ...

More than a year before Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy, the CIA received a tip that the Soviet government was plotting to kill the commander-in-chief, the latest batch of ...

The federal director of the new presidential library will use spying to tell a story. Presidents have peculiar relationships with the intelligence community. That is to say, most of them have only a ...

Richard McGarrah Helms was born March 30, 1913, in St. Davids, Pa., into a family of some means. His father was a corporate executive and his maternal grandfather, Gates McGarrah, was a leading ...

Richard Helms, the legendary director of Central Intelligence, once described his job in chillingly succinct terms: “It’s not enough to ring the bell,” he said, referring to foreign threats. “You have ...

Helms rose through the ranks to become the first career spy to head the CIA. After being appointed by then President Johnson, Helms led the agency through some of its most interesting, and troubled, ...

Steven Earls, former senior vice president and deputy chief information security officer at Fifth and Third Bank, has joined Ntrepid Corp. as vice president of information security strategy. Ntrepid ...

Presidents have peculiar relationships with the intelligence community. That is to say, most of them have only a faint understanding of how intelligence works. Richard Helms, the late director of ...