JOVIAL MR. K., DULLES PROPOSE SPY-POOLING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2010
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• Publication Date: September 17, 1959
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Herald Tribune News Service
Allen W. Dulles, America's "we should buy our intell-
top intelligence expert, and
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev,
no slouch himself in the cloak-
and-dagger business,` have ex-
changed professional view-
points.
The scene was President
Eisenhower's White House din-
ner Tuesday night for the Rus-
sian visitor and his wife. On
being introduced to Khru-
shchev, Dulles, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
remarked whimsically:
"You, Mr. Chairman, may
have seen some, of my intelli-
gence 'reports from time to.
time,"
"I believe we get the same
reports," the Chairman of the
U.S.S.R.'s Council of Ministers
retorted quickly. He added:
"And. probably from the same
gence data together and save
money. We'd have to pay the
people only once."
At another point, the Soviet
Premier was discussing Amer-
ican civil rights with George
M. Johnson, Negro member
of the Civil Rights Commis-
sion. Apparently Khrushchev
misunderstood part of the
translation, thinking Johnson
was criticizing Russia's civil
freedoms.
"You have your concept of
civil rights, and we have ours,"
Khrushchev said. "What is
freedom to you may seem
slavery, to us, and what is
freedom to us` may seem
slavery to you."
At that moment - this was
during stand-up coffee drink-
ing President Eisenhower
came within earshot of the con-
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