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A look over my shoulder
a life in the Central Intelligence Agency
By Helms, Richard & Hood, William
- ISBN
- 978-0-37550-012-1
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2003
In a readable account that can be teamed with Thomas Powers's The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (now over 20 years old), Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1972, has provided background information about some operations but no real secrets. Helms spent most of his life in intelligence work, having met Hitler as a cub reporter in the 1930s and worked on propaganda with the OSS during World War II. When he became head of the CIA, t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
