Didn't Nixon's CIA director, Richard Helms "resign" too?

[NNN0LHI]

I am pretty sure.

Don

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Seems like it

but there have been other CIA resignations during Pres. terms. It's just with the Bush etals, you just KNOW it's not to spend more time with The Family.

Whole lot of speculation on this one...Hookergate, Secret Prisons, maybe even not giving Bush the "right" intelligence on Iran. (or maybe all of them!)

[hughee99]

4. Woolsey and Deutch both resigned during Big Dog's admin. n/t

[robbedvoter]

2. Was it Watergate hookers then too? Just checkin'

:shrug:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Maybe Bush will totally disband the CIA now. This way he won't have

todeal with their argumentative agents and intelligence that counters his god-given right to invade whatever country he decides to invade!

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Actually, Nixon canned him

From Wikipedia:

Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities. In 1977 he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remains a revered figure in the intelligence profession. CIA Historian Keith Melton describes Helms as a professional always impeccably dressed and had a "low tolerance for fools" . . . .

The ease of Helm's role under President Lyndon Johnson changed with the arrival of President Richard Nixon and Nixon's national security advisor Henry Kissinger. After the debacle of Watergate, from which Helms succeeded in distancing the CIA as far as possible, the Agency came under much tighter Congressional control.

In 1972, Helms ordered the destruction of most records from the huge MKULTRA project, over 150 CIA-funded research projects designed to explore any possibilities of mind control. The project became public knowledge two years later, after a New York Times report. Its full extent may never be known.

Nixon considered Helms to be disloyal and fired him as DCI in 1973. Helms then served from 1973 to 1976 as US ambassador to Iran in Tehran.

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