LETTER TO FRANK B. GIBNEY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05965184
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2019
• Case Number: F-2015-00892
• Publication Date: September 7, 1962

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September 7, 1962
Mr. Frank B. Gibney
Publisher
Show Magazine
140 East 57th Street
New York 22
N.Y.
Dear Frank:
Upon my return from a brief holiday, I found
your letter of August 28 and also due, I am sure, to your
kindness I have received several copies of your publication
Show, which both Mrs. Dulles and I found of real interest.
At the moment I have entered into more writing
commitments than I am able to carry out. This situation
may change in the future, but for the next six months I
am not able to take on any additional commitments.
I was glad to hear that our Russian friend was
getting alarigiaatitifictorily. � One of thy last -acts as Director
uf-Central Intelligence was to call him in and have a talk
with him, giving him encouragement, as I understood that
at that time he was rather down on his luck. I am glad that
you are continuing this help and keep in touch with him.
This is very important in helping people in his situation
acclimate to a new life.
In case you should be in Washington, it would be
a great pleasure to see you.
Faithfully yours,
Allen W. Dulles
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THE MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS � 140 EAST 57TH STREET � NEW YORK 22, N.Y. � PLAZA 2-6161
FRANK B. GIBNEY � PUBLISHER
August 28, 1962
Mr. Allen Dulles
Sullivan & Cromwell
48 Wall Street
New York, New York
Dear Allen:
It has been quite some time since I rang your
doorbell in Washington with my comments, complaints and
other observations in the case of our Russian friend. I
have been not unbusy since then. As you may or may not
know, I left Life well over a year ago and since December
I have been Publisher of SHOW. You may have seen recently
some of the stories about our acquisition of another
monthly magazine, USA*1.
I found SHOW a "Magazine of the Performing Arts."
I immediately widened its scope to include all the arts and
we have been widening busily ever since. At the moment it
has about the same scope, roughly, as Vanity Fair or The
New Yorker. I am adding a section on political and economic
affairs in our October issue, and only partly as a concession
to our 70,000 new subscribers from USA*1. For I do feel
that politics is the greatest of the arts, in a human sense,
and a magazine that sets itself up as a cultural arbiter
and/or reporter is remiss in not commenting, too, on the
policies and politics with which culture and the arts inter-
connect. Quite a mouthful. I am sending along a few copies
of the magazine plus an advance copy of our October issue
when it arrives.
All this leads up to my request. I wonder if you
have any leisure at all left for writing these days. I
should be very pleased to have you do a piece for us, if
you are at all interested. Originally I had thought of
something like "The Fine Art of Espionage,' (or possibly
"The Lost Art of Espionage"), which would be an interesting
subject about which I am sure you could write more
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authoritatively than anyone going. With our political
section aborning, there are obviously a host of other
possibilities which I would very much like to discuss
with you. I am going off now on a quick two-week vacation,
but I shall be back in New York on the 10th. Would it
be possible to see you sometime and discuss this? I would
be delighted if you could have lunch with me or meet at any
other time at your convenience.
Whether or not you have any time for writing
at the moment, it would be very good to see you in any case,
I much enjoyed the conversations we had in the moments
when I was able to intrude on your time in Washington. And
I remain very grateful for your encouragement and assistance
at the time the business of the Japan Embassy came up. I
hope to be of use in that part of the world some day, in
any case, For one thing SHOW will soon be starting a
Japanese edition,
Sincerely,
Frank B. Gibney
P.S. Our Russian friend is getting along very well indeed,
I think. He has made a good marriage and rejoices in his
new son, and I find the morale seems to be up for a longer
period than I have known. I am seeing him in a few weeks.
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