RETIRING DULLES GETS UNHERALDED SEND-OFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200110036-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 29, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON sf NOV 2 9 1961
AN>tprvadjq-fteIease 1999/09/16: CIA-RDP70-00058R000
Retiring Dulles Gets
I Unheralded Seud'Off
Edward T. Folliard
'Mari' R~orter
ennedy flew by and how in the long s~veep of
Dulles has had an extraor-
h Goer from the White history how significant yourl dinary and adventurous life.
,angley, efforts will be judged." After being graduated from
e n or an unhre- John A. 'McCone of Cali- Princeton in 1914, he taught
T2riy t4 honor a re fornia, former chairman of I
tb servant Allen English in Allahabad, India:
t~ c the At nlic Energy Commis- He returned to Princeton to
e sworfi in at the
g lion, study for a,.?master's degree,
21 year dras the new which ? he received in 1916.
2ftur a a A4 White ouse today hi p post tod y
00 a
a leaves t ems.- rector-Qf the (That saxe year he joined the
W. e CtA Unite' Statee Diploma tc
No ,#dvance public an :Corps end s u k-Sque h t l
Cis pol is director of the served in Vienna, Bern, Berlin,
nouriee`]~ Ot
Central teil'igecutut Agency. t was made of 1 i Constantinople and 1, Berli g
the, f Exec y's intention '
ive award- Presideft' Xenned
ed Duif s the National Secu to give pulles a send-off at'i tan. Ile was a member of the
the o,","IA headquarters in lAmerican Commission at the
Meal for distinguished 'Lh ? la'our White House F
` Peace" Confere'ril e' ` in
i
ar
s
service in the field of intelli ret5 chosen on short
Bence. He also praised him as a pool! L018-10 and Tdater r~as assigned
ti erve"under
i11 nternational conferences
no
t
all
o
d e and Hoover
"an almost unique, figure in our country," C~rrt, we P flown to in tlit m
a man who has Lori just ahead of the Admli~~lstration, ""'
served the United States un- -? . Secretary pf De `
Prelt, Wk ,.. In Wnrld''at WDulles had
aer seven ime chi c11 f a? a d r and pen Maxwell Tay1 r He
lornat, Wartime cef of under- tegic Ser ice was chief of
vltzend
e4vgl tons and head OSS 'in
plate. farewell e took t German
of place in the lobby of f t the tna11 the sitd rte a and t for
the I given Nft s off" t e credi
} CIA ,buildlT I with some 700 know o no man who officials e~ l?1oyes looking troops Tri n,ortihefn Italy in
l u gs. a greater sense Of per- on In the *1q. I
a fierui ,too, were 1945. He had h"und'eds'of spies
a o in in i t iii e n t to his Attorney General Robert Fworking under him all over
4v~rk," Mr. Kennedy said of Kennedy and his wife, Ethel.'
Dulles, "who ?has Tessp The President, in,, awarding the continent.
ride i
:
in office than he bias IV I Dulles the National` Security
The President also had tyords Medal, noted that' T illes had
p# praise for the ankanil file won many otherlheti '1 eSe
of CIA, saying: ' include the MCOR131 3 Merit
"Your su c c e s s e s e un- and Presidential. Citation, the
Italy's
heralded-your failures trump-, Medal - of Freedom,
eted. I sometimes have that) Order of Maurizin F. Lazzaro,
feeling. myself. But I am sure!' France's Legion of honor and
you realize how important V our -_-_-
work is, how essential it is Belgium's Cross of the Order
of Leopold.
Dulles thanked the Press
dentsfgI' ,his constant support
of the Rd A aril"for his under-
standing of`the agency's prob-
lems and possibilities. He said
the agency wouldbe in good
hands under. "]ny old friend;''
McCone. Then he thanked the
CIA employes 'for the help
they had given him through
"good times and bad."
This last.,could have been
an VJjusion, to the Cuban 'in-?
vasiOri that went wrong, rmis?
adventure for which the Pres
idept took full blame.
1 Dulles, who is 6B, issued a
I formal statement annotYncin
ithat he would return to the
practice of law,' serving as
cpunsel, to the firm of Sulli-,
van and Cromwell of New
York City. Like his brother,
the late John Foster, ('Tulles,
h had been with this flt I for
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lie service.