WASHINGTON SCENE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100080043-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP79-00058R000100080043-5
1 WASHINGTON. SCENE
C PY B GEORGE DIXON
o goes around
trying to look so lynx-eyed we're afraid he'll
scare. all our lynxes, is-AUM nlrothe
of John Foster Dulles. He's head of the
hush-hush organization called the central
intelligence agency.
"Allen Dulles-public eye!" television
whodunit fans call him here in Washington.
Dulles, he sees all, knows all. He's as
uncanny as Sherlock Holmes before he took
to the needle.
The big cloak-and-dagger man not only
knows all the secrets of this country, but
of every other country on earth, and we
hear he's got a couple of undercover agents
planted on Mars.
Recently he journeyed to Europe to make
a recheck on his ferreting. After draining
every country dry of its intelligence, he
decided to rest his mighty brain in Switzer-
land for a spell.
But when he got to his vacationing place
he found himself without so much as a
disguise to change into. He had shipped his
baggage to one mountain resort and himself
to another.
The great mantracker, from whom nothing
is hidden, couldn't find the right mountain.
Can't Find His Head
This is utterly irrelevant,. but somehow
I've been reminded of a fellow who worked
up a reputation as a great solver of mysteries
in New York some years ago. Whenever
Manhattan had a mystery case that got
a lot of newspaper space this wizard used
to offer possible solutions.
I never heard of any of them panning,
out, but nevertheless he enjoyed quite a
following until he was destroyed by a barbed
witticism from a bona fide copper. Describ-
ing the amateur, this working gendarme i
said:
"He couldn't find his head in the dark!
with both hands free."
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But, getting back to Allen Dulles, I would
say that the CIA is probably no more inept
under him than it was under his predecessor, :
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, who now works'
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secretary of state.
"Beetle" Smith, as he Is called hereabouts
was consistently able to find his head I
the dark, but I hear he had to call in FBI
agents to check that it was really his. head
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Before Beetle was booted upstairs, the
IA covered itself with glory by contacting
member of the "anti-Communist under-
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out of a sum said to be approximately
$1,000,000.
But, after getting the million, and also
a super-secret document, the Pole dis-
appeared. It occurred to CIA, rather belated-
ly, to run a check on the fellow.
GiIA found the answer in its own files.
It had a dossier on the Pole identifying
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