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.

Helms served as DCI under Johnson then Nixon. Helms generally favored information gathering (whether covert or overt) and its analysis and counterintelligence but remained a skeptic about clandestine operations. In 1977 as an indirect result of earlier clandestine operations in Chile he became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress.