A Look Over My Shoulder, by Richard Helms, begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles’s Berlin office in postwar Germany. On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carryover operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947. At CIA, Helms served as a division chief; as chief of operations for Frank Wisner; as deputy director for plans (operations); as deputy director; and, ultimately, as director, from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year, and he retired from government service in January 1977. A Look Over My Shoulder focuses on subjects such as intelligence collection, covert action, the uses and misuses of intelligence, and the problems secret intelligence encounters in an open society. Helms discusses • working with Allen Dulles in Berlin in the early days of the Cold War. • the amazing results of CIA’s Berlin tunnel operation, code name GOLD: “[Soviet officers’] unvarnished comments on the quality of Soviet military equipment, the intellectual capacity of fellow officers, and the wisdom of Moscow’s military policies were in more than one sense priceless.” • the remarkable progress of high-altitude spying: “[The U-2 photographs] permitted resolution to some thirty inches—not quite enough to limn a football, as some press accounts have suggested, but quite good enough to spot a Soviet soldier perched on an open privy a discreet two hundred yards from [a guided missile] site in Cuba.” • his relationship with presidents and other key figures of the Cold War: After an Air Force briefing on the destruction of the electric grid in North Vietnam, LBJ’s only question to Helms was “Are the lights on in Hanoi?”; J. Edgar Hoover once offered Helms “a forty-five-minute uninterrupted history of the FBI in peace and war.” • how President Nixon attempted to embroil CIA in the Watergate cover-up: “The telephone call that set in motion the events that would eventually end my intelligence career came as I was preparing for bed, Saturday, June 17, 1972. . . . ‘I’ve just learned that the District police have picked up five men in a break-in at the Democratic Party National Headquarters at the Watergate.’” It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it is—revealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career.

A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

Biographies & Memoirs

Hood, William

Helms, Richard

Leaders & Notable People

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Malice and personal ambition clash tragically in this thought-provoking courtroom thriller.

Bobby J

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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Twelve years ago, Geoffrey Sterling played a small but critical part in the impeachment of an American president. In the process, he lost everything he held most dear.For twelve years, Sterling has hidden from life, as a student at a small Maryland college, working as a reporter for the college newspaper. He is assigned to interview Kenneth Boland, the author of a high-profile tell-all book outlining the activities of the world's most secret covert intelligence agencies.When Boland's house explodes, his dying word - AMADEUS - propels Sterling headlong onto the gameboard of international intrigue, as a major player!In order to stay alive, Sterling must discover the meaning of AMADEUS, match wits against the latest generation of a dynasty of assassins dating back almost a thousand years, and forestall the realization of a four hundred year old prophecy which could spell the destruction of modern civilization! Don't miss this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of THE VALENTINE PROFILE, and BOBBY J.!

The Amadeus Legacy

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Charleston psychologist Mark Lovell thinks that Judge Matthew Valentine would make a fine candidate for the US Senate. Then, he accidentally comes across a psychiatric file on a colleague's desk suggesting that Judge Valentine is suffering from severe mental illness-or is he?After the local media breaks the story of Valentine's psychiatric treatment, he commits suicide-or does he?Convinced that Valentine was murdered, Lovell sets out to discover who might have committed the crime, aided by a medical student and a conservative radio talk show host. As he delves deeper into the case, Lovell uncovers an insidious political plot to discredit Valentine and remove him from the race. Worse, Lovell realizes that the next target of this shady conspiracy is himself!It's a race against time, as Lovell tries to unmask the members of a top-secret political dirty-tricks organization, and uncover the secret of the information he carries in his own head-The Valentine Profile!

The Valentine Profile

A Look over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon’s attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles’s Berlin office in postwar Germany. On his return to Washington, Helms assumed responsibility for the OSS carryover operations in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe. He remained in this post until the Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947. At CIA, Helms served in many positions, ultimately becoming the organization’s director from 1966 to 1973. He was appointed ambassador to Iran later that year and retired from government service in January 1977. It was often thought that Richard Helms, who served longer in the Central Intelligence Agency than anyone else, would never tell his story, but here it is–revealing, news-making, and with candid assessments of the controversies and triumphs of a remarkable career.

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

Random House Publishing Group

Nominated for the 2003 Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award, Juicy Watusi is the third book in Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Set in New Orleans, Juicy Watusi features Helms' creation Pat Gallegher - failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, disgraced college professor, who now makes a living playing jazz cornet in a dive bar off Toulouse Street in the French Quarter. When his boss's girlfriend is murdered, and his boss is arrested for the crime, Gallegher investigates what becomes the sensational Stripper Ripper murders. The roles of predator and prey reverse, however, when the murderer targets Gallegher's girlfriend Merlie Comineau!

Juicy Watusi

Barbadoes Hall Communcations

First book in the Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Slacker jazz cornet player in New Orleans' French Quarter agrees to help a desperate woman find her lover, whom she thinks has been murdered -- by her husband!

Joker Poker

The fourth book in Richard Helms' Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Gallegher investigates the seventy year old murder of a man found entombed in a concrete floor next to Holliday's, and discovers that this murder is deviously connected with his own recent violent past.

Wet Debt

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First book in two-time Shamus Award nominee Richard Helms' new Eamon Gold PI series, set in modern-day San Francisco. Noted trial attorney Taylor Chu has been brutally murdered and dropped at the base of the Bay Bridge. The local media are filled with graphic accounts of his death. How, then, can he also be sitting in private investigator Eamon Gold's office near Hyde Pier, sipping Gold's Glenlivet single malt? As Gold investigates this puzzle, he will encounter ambitious Homeland Security agents, tong overlords, Marin County pornographers, unscrupulous attorneys, and an attempt to ignite a gang war in San Francisco's Chinatown Two-time Shamus Award Nominee (Juicy Watusi, Wet Debt) Richard Helms pulls out all the stops in this hard-hitting, knuckles-and-know-how debut of his exciting new Eamon Gold series, GRASS SANDAL If the first chapter of Grass Sandal doesn't hook you, give up reading mysteries. Highly recommended Jeremiah Healy, Shamus Award Winner, author of SPIRAL, and THE ONLY GOOD LAWYER Eamon Gold is clearly the rightful heir to the sacred territory of Sam Spade. More twists and turns than Lombard Street. Richard Helms delivers some of the smartest dialogue in the genre William Kent Krueger, Anthony Award Winner, author of BLOOD HOLLOW Both the initial entry and CORDITE WINE (September 2005) offer a return to classic dick lit (i.e. private eye fiction) in a classic location. Publishers Weekly Authors on the Ascendent November 22, 2004

Grass Sandal

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A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

Bobby J

The Amadeus Legacy

The Valentine Profile

A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency

Juicy Watusi

Joker Poker

Wet Debt

Bobby J

Grass Sandal