DULLES HAS THANKLESS JOB

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140078-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: May 28, 1961
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LULLES HAS THANKLESS JOB
US Espionage Chief May Only Acknowledge his Mistakes
Well Paid, but no Medals
By Arne Thoren
New York ( ressen) -- Successful secret agents do not receive
medals; they must be content with the praise of their superiors and, pos-
sibly, good pay.
Unsuccessful espionage agents are traditionally men without a country,
without friends, and without protectors (one of history's most notable
exceptions to this rule is Gary Francis Powers, the U-2 pilot whom Presi-
dent Eisenhower personally defended).
But those who rely on the information and data collected by their
spies and agents as a basis for their decisions on government policy can
get into trouble. A recent example is the 68-year old Allen Dulles,
brother of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He is chief of
the supersecret CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), or the US intelligence
service.
Trouble with Cuba
The CIA and Allen Dulles suffer from the inevitable disadvantage of
being forced to answer for their mistakes and reverses without being able
to balance the account with successes and achievements. But even with
such privileges, Dulles & Co would have had difficulty in balancing debits
and credits in recent weeks: CIA bore the direct responsibility for the
tragic landings on Cuba, and moreover supported an anti-Communist action
in Laos, while "forgetting" to investigate whether there was any real po-
litical sympathy among the people for this action.
In the Cuban affair, President Kennedy personally took the main re-
sponsibility. But the CIA chief has not denied total misjudgment of the
situation and, above all, the grossest underestimation of Fidel Castro's
influence and military power.
Among the enemies of the US, there was doubtless rubbing of hands in
delight over the worries which Dulles and his assistants reaped, in ad-
dition to those they already had. The fact is that the CIA is without
doubt a very effective organization in many areas. The problem is that,
so far, it has not only been responsible for the collection of facts but,
to a large extent, has also taken part in policy decision based on such
facts.
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It Costs Money
The CIA was established in 1947. Its mission was to work in close
cooperation with the so-called National Security Council, which in turn
must advise the President for the purpose of coordinating domestic,
foreign and military policies.
The CIA was given the mission to coordinate intelligence activity
in all departments, to evaluate the result, and furthermore to be at
the service of the Security Council for such tasks as sabotage, espio-
nage, and counterespionage.
Allen Dulles has been head of the CIA since 1953, and he was the
first in a top post to be reappointed by President Kennedy after the
latter took office in January.
The CIA has access to enormous sums of money each year, but where
this money goes and what results the expenditures yield are matters of
absolute secrecy. There is no committee in Congress authorized in any
way to "audit" the CIA operation. Certain members of Congress now and
then receive some information about what goes on. But none is given an
over-all picture.
All told, the CIA is reported to have about 30,000 employees. Its
headquarters are in Washington, where it has Just acquired a new, huge
building. Only a few officials besides Dulles are identified as con-
nected with the CIA. The man next in line after Dulles is Air Force
General Charles Cabell. On the "espionage side," the work is directed
by Robert Amory Jr.; and the chief on the propaganda and guerrilla side
is Richard Bissell Jr.
Allen Dulles himself has occasionally complained that he is the
head of an "absolutely hush organization."
"?] Sometimes, I should perhaps have liked to advertise my wares,
but that is naturally out of the question, given the work we do. Our
dreams of public relations must give way to security in our work. ["?]
Even inside the CIA, secrecy is preserved as far as possible.
Secretaries and other subordinates are instructed to say that they work
for the "Army," and employees who receive inquiries from colleagues in
other departments must always ask themselves "does he need to know the
right answer?" before giving out information. ,
An Effective File
Just as very little information is available on the number of people
who work for CIA, who they are, and what they do, little is known about
their achievements. It is only the big reverses which are publicized.
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Among the CIA's known and most prized exploits was that of a communica-
tions expert who in 1955, while studying a map of Berlin, discovered that
the Soviets' main telephone cable, at one point, was only 300 meters re-
moved from a US radar station. A tunnel was quickly dug, and all Soviet
telephone conversations tapped for several months before the tunnel was
discovered.
New personnel are subjected to an extremely thorough investigation
before they are employed; for instance, it is an invariable rule that
everyone must take a lie-detector test. It has been found that the lie-
detector does not primarily serve to expose liars, but rather that the
presence of such an instrument automatically makes everyone tell the
truth.
The CIA has a file which is thought to be the largest and most ef-
fective in the world. It makes available everything from detailed in-
formation about persons in Germany, Iran,. or Thailand to information
about the quality of tractors in the Ukraine or guns from Bofors.
The events in Cuba and Laos caused President Kennedy to set up a
special committee to investigate all CIA activity. The President has
called upon General Maxwell Taylor to head the committee; Taylor's as-
sistants are Attorney General Robert Kennedy and CIA Chief Dulles him-
self.
It is expected that Taylor-Kennedy will come forth with a proposal
that CIA's purely political activity be sharply curtailed. And as soon
as President Kennedy has found a successor to Dulles, the latter is ex-
pected to retire.
The CIA has run into stormy weather, but it is only a matter of
getting the vessel back on an even keel; its activity is much too valu-
able to the US for it to be endangered by organizational weaknesses of
a series of faulty evaluations of available data.
Caption under three pictures accompanying the article:
Three key figures in the U-2 incident: left, pilot Francis Powers
in court during the great Moscow trial; center, Khrushchev waves the
evidence in the air; and right, espionage chief Allen Dulles, brother
of US's former Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
When an espionage agent fails, he is traditionally a man without a
country, without friends, and without protectors. Once it happened that
an agent was publicly defended by a statesman. That statesman was
Eisenhower, who personally came to the defense of Powers.
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