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From wartime Britain to Nixon's America and beyond, Cynthia Helms was see for some of the seminal occurrences in our time - Vietnam, Watergate, and especially the demoralization of the CIA in the 1970s for political purposes. Starting with her feminist "epiphany" in 1968 (the annus horribilus as she explains it) that led her to get rid of her first matrimony of 24 years, this memoir discloses a global where appearances always needed to be questioned, where rumours and gossip carried the weight of intrigue. Helms was raised on a plantation in Maldon, Britain and served among the original Boat Team Wrens during World Battle II. She arrived to the United States after the conflict with her first husband, a physician. Her later matrimony to Richard Helms released her to a global previously known only to her in catalogs, not only the physical world from Mexico to Fiji to Iran, but also the world of a spymaster who savored the confidence of some of the most crucial leaders of the overdue twentieth century. Her time as the ambassador's wife in Tehran on the eve of the Iranian Trend is especially informing, as she witnesses the charming but deeply flawed Shah slowly but surely lose his way along with his own people. Her "inside the beltway" observations are no less captivating, especially when her husband had been vilified by ambitious congressmen for occurrences that happened way back when and far away and in a completely different countrywide security context. A fascinating narrative, An Intriguing Life is a screen to our latest history.
