Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1953 Dulles ya zama DCI na biyar a karkashin Shugaba Eisenhower. John Foster Dulles, ɗan'uwan Dulles, shi ne Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Eisenhower. A karkashin DDP Helms an ba shi takamaiman aiki a cikin kare hukumar daga barazanar harin da Sanata Joseph McCarthy ya yi, da kuma ci gaban "maganin gaskiya" da sauran magungunan "kula da hankali" bisa ga CIA na MKUltra mai rikitarwa. Daga Washington, Helms ya kula da Ramin Berlin, aikin leken asiri na 1953 <unk> 1954 wanda daga baya ya zama kanun labarai. Dangane da ayyukan CIA, Helms ya yi la'akari da bayanan da aka samu ta hanyar leken asiri ya zama mafi fa'ida a cikin dogon lokaci fiye da aikin da ya fi haɗarin da ke tattare da ayyukan ɓoye, wanda zai iya haifar da siyasa. A karkashin jagorancinsa kuma mai ba da shawara ga DDP Wisner, CIA ta gudanar da irin wannan aikin da aka yi a asirce, wanda ya haifar da sauye-sauyen tsarin mulki a Iran a 1953 da Guatemala a 1954 da kuma tsoma baki a Congo a 1960. A lokacin rikicin Suez
da Hungary a shekarar 1956 DDP Wisner ya zama damuwa da rashin biyayya ga abokan tarayya da kuma asarar wata dama mai mahimmanci na Cold War. Wisner ya tafi a shekara ta 1958. Ta wuce Helms, DCI Dulles ya nada Richard Bissell a matsayin sabon DDP, wanda ya gudanar da jirgin leken asiri na U-2.