LETTER TO FRANK B. GIBNEY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05965415
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2019
• Case Number: F-2015-00892
• Publication Date: January 8, 1964

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January. 1964
Mt. Prank B. Gibney
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140 East 57th Street
New York 22, N. Y.
Dear Prank:
appreciate your letter of December 30
and I have read with great interest the Gibney-
Deriabin review of my book "The Craft of Intelliqe
gence". This will certainly rank, in my mind at
least, as the most interesting of all the reviews
that have come along.
If it is not too late, �I have gply one
or two suggestions. Page 1 of your typed copy,
third line from bottom of first paragraph: the
use of the word "totalitarian", would much
prefer that you use a word like "secret", "covert"
"undisclosed" or something of this nature. As
you undoubtedly realize, there is an attack being
made on the Agency on the theory that all such
operations are UnAmerican, totalitarian, etc.
With regard to the Deriabin piece, I suggest
the title make clear that this is a "review" by
Deriabin2dwit now appears as if. Deriabin had Itritten
the book itself. On Galley 1, at the end of the Stb
paragraph, you will find the statement made that
Ivashutin is today the chief of the GRU (which, I
believe, is correct). At the end of paragraph 4
in the second Galley, you state that Ivashutin "has
probably been made" new chief of military, intelli-
gence. These two statements are inconsistent. At
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Mr. Gibney Page 2.
the top of Galley 2, Deriabin quotes me as
saying "American intelligence is young. It has
not had time to grow up." This is quite opposite
of what x really said if you would look at page 193
of my book. The essence of what X said is that
while American intelligence is young, it is a
well developed organization - as the review goes
on to say,
Thal* you very much for letting me see this
material and I shall look forward to its publication
in your March number.
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Faithfully yours,
Allen W. Dulles
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