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Ten days before the 1967 war in the Middle East, Helms sent Lyndon Johnson a memo saying that war was coming. At one of L.B.J.'s Tuesday lunches the next year, Helms quietly told the President that Soviet forces on the border of Czechoslovakia had topped off their gas tanks, issued ammunition and would soon roll to crush Dubcek liberalism. The only thing Helms did not know was the exact moment the men in the Kremlin would make up their mind to move.
They did that night.
Helms was involved in putting up the first photo satellite after the U-2 had been discovered and downed. In his time the Glomar Explorer, the ship designed to raise the sunken Soviet submarine and its nuclear secrets in the Pacific, was conceived and put into motion. And there was lots more.
So in the end it cost him two thousand bucks. Probably a bargain as things go in the spy business.