WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Helms, the spymaster who led the CIA through some of its most difficult years and was later fired by President Nixon when he refused to block an FBI probe into the Watergate ...

Richard “Butch” Helms peacefully passed away on Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, in Sacramento. He was born Nov. 22, 1945, in Rockmart, Ga. After high school, he graduated from Reinhardt College in 1965. In 1966 ...

The Central Intelligence Agency, which tries not too successfully to stay out of the news, makes it big when it has something that it wants to tell. So it was last week when Richard Helms was named to ...

The Washington Post dubbed it “the smoking gun tape.” It was the recording that doomed the presidency of Richard Nixon. The transcript of a conversation that took place on June 23, 1972, when made ...