Richard Helms quotes

Richard Helms quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.”
-- Richard Helms

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

Source : Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.

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“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

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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

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