Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Helms

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Richard McGarrah Helms was an American government official and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 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 presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973.

American - Celebrity | March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002

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Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

Richard Helms

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

Richard Helms

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard Helms

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

Richard Helms

I would assume the case will never be closed.

Richard Helms

I have one president at a time. I only work for you.

Richard Helms

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

Richard Helms

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.

Richard Helms

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

Richard Helms

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

Richard Helms