THE HEADLINER:8:10 PM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140166-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 166
• Publication Date: April 30, 1961
• Content Type: PREL

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WCBS & CBS Network
New York
THE HEADLINER:8:10 PM
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DOUGLAS EI ,b RDS: "Hello everybody. This is Douglas Edwards with our head-
liner of the week.
"Today, we'd like to tell you about America's master spy, the man behind
this week's headlines. America's number one spy looks more like a scholar than
a secret agent, and considers his work undramatic. He says he's never been
shot at,_and no one ever tried to kidnap him.
"We'll tell you more about this week's headliner in just a moment."
EDWARDS: "Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
is today's headliner. Currently, Mr. Dulles and the CIA are the center of con-
siderable attention, over what they did or didn't do in the Cuban invasion.
"Allen Dulles is an intelligence chief who grew up in the business, and
that's a rarity in the United States. Allen Dulles got his first espionage
assignment in World War I, when he was a member of the American Foreign Service.
He was assigned to gather political intelligence on Southeast Europe in Swit-
zerland. And as a result of not seeing someone then, Dulles has made an effort
to try to see anyone who wants to talk with.him now.
"In Switzerland, a bearded foreign journalist wanted to discuss European
politics with him. U. S. officials said it was a waste of time. And young
Allen Dulles did not meet Nikolai Lenin, who was just about to leave for Russia
to help make the revolution.
"Allen Dulles was born in J~atertown, New York, the son of a Presbyterian
minister, the grandson and nephew of two Secretaries of States. At the age of
eight, Allen Dulles was already interested in international relations. He
wrote a 31 page history of the Boer War, criticizing the British policy.
"Between wars, Allen Dulles became chief of the State Department's Near
Eastern Affairs Division. With a wife and three children, Allen Dulles left
the diplomatic corps to make more money. He joined his older brother's Wall
Street law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell.
"In World War II, Allen Dulles went back to intelligence work in Switzer-
land for Wild Bill Donovan, OSS. Dulles became involved in, and encouraged,
the general plot to kill Hitler, and uncovered the first evidence that someone
in the British Embassy in Turkey was selling Allied secrets to the Nazis. This
led to the discovery that the British ambassador's valet, Cicero, was a German
agent, which made a sensational spy thriller in at least five languages.
"Allen Dulles also received. a medal for getting the German armies in Italy
to surrender before V-E Day. Allen Dulles went to law after the war, but his
heart was still in intelligence work. He drafted the original plans on which
the Central Intelligence Agency was eventually created in 1947?
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"When General Bedell Smith took over the CIA in 1950, he drafted Dulles
back into the intelligence work as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
"Allen Dulles does not consider himself a cloak-and-dagger type, nor do
any of his associates. V=e'l1 bring you more of our headliner of the week in
just a 'moment."
En1A:RDS: "Allen Welsh Dulles is husky, six feet tall, weighs 200 pounds.
His booming laugh, bouncy enthusiasm, and love of competitive sports reminds
friends of Teddy Roosevelt. Sixty-eight years old, he still plays a sharp game
of tennis, he golfs in the 90's, and works from 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. daily.
"Pipe clamped between his teeth, wearing rimless glasses, in conservative,
well-rumpled clothes, grey-mustached Allen Dulles looks more like a British
headmaster than a super spy.
"After Allen Dulles joined CIA, Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, said, 'If
the spy Allen Dulles should. arrive in heaven through somebody's absent-minded-
ness, he would begin to blow up the clouds, mine the stars, and slaughter the
angels.'
"All that Allen Dulles says about his CIA operation is, 'We're not as good
as want to be, but we're better than a great many people realize.'"
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