"A Look Over My Shoulder begins with President Nixon's attempt to embroil the Central Intelligence Agency, of which Richard Helms was then the director, in the Watergate cover-up. Helms then recalls his education in Switzerland and Germany and at Williams College; his early career as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, during which he once lunched with Hitler; and his return to newspaper work in the United States. Helms served on the German desk at OSS headquarters in London; subsequently, he was assigned to Allen Dulles's Berlin office in postwar Germany." "A Look Over My Shoulder focuses on subjects such as intelligence collection, covert action, the uses and misuses of intelligence, and the problems secret intelligence encounters in an open society."--Jacket.

A Smoking Gun -- Lunch with Adolf -- Signing On -- London -- Wieder Berlin -- Getting In -- Getting Under Way -- The Gehlen Organization -- Fabrication Factories -- Mr. Dulles Takes Over -- The Noisy Side of the Street -- Breaking the Ice -- Digging In -- Within the Gate -- Soldiering On -- Call It Hubris -- Fallout -- A New Man -- An Agile Mammal -- Facing Off -- Khrushchev Blinks -- The Heart of the Matter -- A Bone in the Throat -- Moving Up -- The War We Won -- Looking Down -- J. Edgar's FBI -- Beyond X-2 -- "Forging" Ahead -- Six Days -- Are the Lights On? -- Turbulent Times -- Off Campus -- Talk Radio -- Going Public -- President Nixon -- Sihanoukville -- Nixon vs. Allende -- Handshake at Camp David -- Trick Questions? -- Once Persia -- Unzipping the Agency -- Storm Warnings -- Welcome Home -- Browsing.