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The Man Who Kept Secrets: Richard Helms And the CIA
The Man Who Kept Secrets Richard Helms And the CIA Author:Thomas Powers Richard Helms is the quintessential CIA man. For thirty years -- from the very inception of the Central Intelligence Agency and before -- he occupied pivotal positions in that shadowy world: OSS operator, spymaster, planner and plotter, and, finally, for more than six years, Agency director. No other man was so closely and personally involved, o... more »ver so long a period, with so many CIA activities, successful and otherwise. His story is the story of the CIA, and in portraying Helms' extraordinary career, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Powers has in fact written the first comprehensive inside history of the CIA itself.« less