we will meet richard harms -- helms again.e does not know he is going to become director of central intelligence in 1966 and serve until 1973. one of the more remarkable women who served with oss was virginia hall, a baltimore native who served as a clerk in the state department in the 1930's, with various postings. warsaw, visit -- venice, turkey. while in turkey, she had a hunting accident. the trigger of her weapon caught and discharged the weapon into her left foot. gangrene eventually set in and the doctor was forced to take her leg below the knee. she also had a wooden leg. she had been with state for about five years and was eager to join the diplomatic corps, but back then, there was a regulation that states would not post officers abroad who were missing major limbs. in frustration, she resigned and decided to travel in europe anyway, and got caught in france when world war ii broke out. she had studied in france and was fluent. so she stayed. she drove an ambulance for a while. then british special operations executi

he had been stationed in tehran briefly and richard helms was director as the cia by richard nixon 1973eared what he knew that he was sent as the ambassador and insisted if he would be taking the job as ambassador of the rand he wanted to bring ames with him. him only spent six months then transferred to kuwait where he was station chief.ç he did not know farci which is the arabic language specialist and had the usual prejudices' to the persians and vice versa. and in the book guy make clear he would make fun of the shot and would joke about him. and i don't know this but after the revolution i know what he thought it shah given a shot -- asylum but ames was sent back to tehran on a highly secret mission september 796 months after the revolution touche try to create a relationship with the of moderates of the do revolutionary regime so looking at the foreign minister at the tip -- at the time, it is a highly ironic story that ames had authorized to try a to entice the new regime into restore a normal relation to offer intelligence's about specifically the intelligence that we were seei

the core of intelligence and i'll quote from richard helms, it's putting analysis in front of policymakers to help them make decisions. >> the only good show about intelligence i've ever seen in the 1980's, there was a british series called "the sandbaggers." so much about it is about bureaucratic policy. >> so i have a slightly different take. i think people have always been interested in intel. my mother loves james bond, and james bond has been around quite some time, ian fleming's series. so what i want to point out, what's changing is technology. we have new forms of information we didn't have before. social network analysis never existed before. the types of information we can get from data mining couldn't be done before. tracking people as we move through public space using facial recognition technology. this is new technology. unfortunately all of our jurisprudence comes from the 1970's, a time when maxwell smart was talking on his shoe phone and it was being mocked. it's when "star trek", the plot lines were based on losing the communicator, not being able to communicate with the