DULLES HAD SUPERABUNDANCE OF CHAR,M, CHARACTER, COURAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040084-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: February 8, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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with a . supe~
abundance
kIr I'd S1C his in a kV k e u
card at close range when II
,tngaged in' man-to-man co
rsation, he fairly radiate
od will toward all peoph
CJ Among obit writers, who
monumental figure fro
once and espionage pass
it is customary to mall
en through a glass dark]
,terms of -affection, doe
Inevitably; his activities
secret agent and as he
Alan n-of the century's large
1 rote and enigmatic to tl
hey read about characte
4 ueh as Richard,., Sorge ai
14ounted among the beautif
Ilan for his task. He detest
ubterfnnn double talk a
!friendly game, of convers
~lerredTrto ^talk: ~anything b
a 'bup r.
hath,Ch'aracter
ge,
tour-? GEN. S.L.A. MARSHALL
figure, or even a nit playerq by the fact that after retire-
was counter to his nature. In still selling. Fie went at writ
only plausible explanation of j'jhe would have continued to
why he stayed with Intelli produce, for his talgnt was
gence is that he'was good at considerable,:'he had quickly
ernment. have possessea a ers ective; recollection did
e,.,,.,4- t_T., had 11 . p ?p .
the size-and the look of the things while -diminishing
big-time operator ' combined others.:;'
of I the gentle professor.1!1his books, I alluded to him.
hemently when roused, he 1'';llIe promptly wrote nle 'ask-
,liar, The mind was orderly his it good, or bad?" He did
'particular course,. his 'mind l Several pictures of him re'.
cation were broad streaks of to the top of-Mount Surabachi
sociation with 'military peo-I (spotlight 'There'he;.kz elt,aiid
him comprehending the fac-
tors that were written into
the plan for the Bay of Pigs.
;Though he was the top man
i -~#n'rtlvefiasco' had to fall part
had to take someone else's
1Isufficiency of what was being
I. undertaken,
The odd part 'of, that 'epi-
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