ALLEN W. DULLES, C.I.A. DIRESTOR FROM 1953 TO 1961, DIES AT 75

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Allen Dulles's apprenticcship!1 "England ought to be cont.cnti
Allen W. ,tulles, C.I.A. Director for the spy in chief post includ-!if she owned the mines whcrc
p~ ed his work as head of the Of- .,old is, but no, she, wants to
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Froin 1953 to 1961, Dies at ? '?' flee of Strategic Services in'h.l.ve the land too," , he wrote.
Switzerland in World War 11.,"She is all the time. picking!
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led to the. surrender of the Ger off with Venezuela and now
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intelligence from 1953 fore the total collapse of the Boers, but she it finding it
Central hard work to do it; all her,
to 1961, died last night in Third Reich. The venture crack soldiers ire being cut
iGeorgetown University Hosp- earned lwho g Coated -saaup by the Boers."
tai, He Was 75 years old. of the Russiane e` dxt~3 tY~k?~ separate peace, and brought A close relationship between
Mr. Duffles had suffered from about a celebrated bitter ex-; Allen and his brother Foster,
s?:, change between Josef Stalin who was 5 years older, began
arthritic ^tout for several years, >r, when they were young. It lasted
but doctors attributed his death z f and President Franklin D. Roose- until Foster's death in 1959.
to influenza complicated by t volt, which foreshadowed the
Allen followed his brother to
pneumonia. He had been ill a cold war. princetnn, where his easy friend-
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Some Notable Setbacks 1liness contrasted with the stiff
few weeks.
In a statement, President t x V In that remorseless struggle mteli:ctualism that Foster had
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his task, his achievements were 110 set ou; to see the world.
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cause of him-the world is a 8a heralded, But the setbacks re-
.safer place today. cowed spectacular treatment. The year was 1911. He was
11 Paris when Archduke Fran-
"The death of Allen Dulles ~` t g Among these were the Soviet i5 Ferdinand was assassinated
came at a time when his qua! ~> >> capture of Francis Gary Powers .at Sarajevo, setting off the
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ever those on which free men 1 t s y Dulles, who read tale new.
1;iscnhower and his Govern-
a sidewalk cafe while s}piling'
mu t rely. He served his coun r h x ; ment, and the attempted inva
} an an~ritif, it did not seem par-
ities of deliberation, integrityand his U reconna-ssanc vents that led to World War
and intelligence are more than ? sa> ?t plane in 1960, n episode that I But to the young Allen',
everel embarrassed President i
"1"u1a1,y v,uu.v.ca.
family and with unstinting de f x~ rya A ~y dent that seemingly benefited' He went on to India, where
votion to duty. She New York Times Fidel Castro more than it di
he taught English at a mission!
"He was a man who brought Allen W. Dulles the United States. Not to 1 school in Allahabad. Later he
civility, intelligence and great after the Bay of Pigs failu visited China and Japan. The
everything he Led Spy Network President Kennedy, who tools y
dedication to ear of travel ended back at
the hlame for it, appointed a Princeton, where he won an
did." By ALAN S. OSER new C. I. A. director. 'M.A. degree in international
Former President Dwight D. To the task of running the Even then, Mr. Dulles re- law in 1916 at 23 and joined
Eisenhower, in a statement re-,nation's intelligence establish- mained philosophical and. re- the diplomatic corps.
leased through his Gettysburg, strained. "I don't spend my First he went to the United'
Pa:, office, said: "I am deeply meat during the height of the time worrying about things IIStates Embassy in Vienna and
t.Dullesd ba the news of Allen cold war in the nineteen-fifties, can't do anything about," helwas given the task of making
iulles's passing. He was a do- Allen Welsh Dulles brought all once observed. "If somethingi
engaging manner, a liearty goes wrong, that's too bad. If'contact with the dissident
voted public servant whose out- (garforces in Austria that were try-
ing to upset the Auere un-
standing ability will be greatly gregariousness and a proles it goes right, I just hope we,
? sorial appearance enhanced by; can keep it a secret as long
missed by the nation. as possible." ian wartime alliance with
a high forehead, gray hair Germany.
On the other hand. Toss. the t mustache, rim-. The, man of affairs was born A year later he was in Bern,
Soviet press agency, denounced and full gray on April 7, 1893, in Watertown,
M Dulles to a man who less glasses, rumpled tweeds, N Y into a family of af- Switzerland, gathering informa-
, almost perpetually, ta he I tion on Germany, Austria-liun-
and r
"fiercely hated the Soviet pipe. All of which masked the fau?s. M. Dulles s father was,Rary and the Balkans.
the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, a ? In 1919 Mr.
Dulles was at
Union and was the advocate zest for conspiracy stirring' Presb terian minister and the thI Part Peace
Conference, re
p-.-lous ideological and' within. ' nephew of John Welsh, Am-
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his propaganda activity by the'Foster Dulles,1 ebwasl a,diplo Britain during ist he
Rut!eford Hayes worked
United States." ' mat and a lawyer. But while and financial problems while
Mr. Dulles is survived bye Foster moved into the policy- tion; His mother , the the dough- Allen specialized in political of-'
his widow, the former Clover' Edith Foster, was
i making role of Secretary of fairs. Next came Berlin, where
ter of John W. Foster, Secre
Todd; two daughters, Mrs. Joan, 0
State under President Dwight tar of State under President lie helped open, the first post-
Buresc i of Zutirich, Switzer- D. Eisenhower, Allen's career y war. United States mission; then
land, and Mrs. Jens Jcbsen of, branched off into cloak and Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Fosters Constantinople (now Istanbul)
New fork; a son, Allen Macy of dap ; son-in-law, Robert Lansing, be- 1922,
rs, Wash- and e work in World War II cane Secretary of State under and finally, in , Washing-
gton; three siste and reached its apex with his. President Woodrow Wilson. ton, as chief of the State Do-
Eleanor Lansing Dulles of Wash- appointment as Director of nartment's Dmsiork the of Near'
Ryeye, , Mrs. Dean Edwards of Central Intelligence in 1953. of the Span sh and Boerowa sre Eastern Affairs.
R, N. Y., and Mrs. James While Foster moved the poi-. A year later President War-
Seymour of New I-Ihildrrd, Mr. Dulles once wrote. He lis- . ren G.
Y., and six grandchildren, icy pieces on the ioard, lion-. tened to hot debates between , (larding died. Mr. Dulles
al diplomatic chessboard, Allen his grandfather and Mr. Lan- emerged from a Late dinner
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A funeral service will be held commanded the vast clandes? Boer !art to car It n
Saturday at 11 A.M. at tine operations and evaluation sing on the merits of the 1. c,ing "Extra! rushed " to He read the news
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the Georgetown Presbyterian network of the Central Intelli- and British causes and, at the
Church in Washington. Burial, age of 8, he formed his ownla artment~ the State Dc
in Church
ore, will be private, Bence Agency in what to both opinion p Only a clerk was on duty.
Duileses was little less than la,e was for the Boers, an di d d the 4n
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a crusade against a worldwide he wrote' a lengthy tract about
'Communist conspiracy of con- jit, full of detailed battle e formation chief of the State
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(Evans }Iuihes and brought hiri The channel for his contin-train was about to depart, the movement that began even be-
,a'k to ih Stile Drparl.mcnt..uing intense interest in inter-
Gestapo war man was lunching at
roi,i there they reached thenational affairs was the Coun? book, The Secret Surrender,"
;s1ecn'n7 V r I'recklent, Calvincil on Forei^n Relations, a, nearby bar. In an impas-be described the clandestine
'Coolidge, at his father's houseformed in the late nineteen-sioned speech in French to the operation that the to the Sur
in Plymouth Notch, Vt. twenties by a group of Amer- gendarme, Mr. Dulles invoked 0t of that le yy's armies in
There was no piione 1hrir,icans who had been active at the names of Lafayette and Italy on May 2, 1945. 1
and it took in hour to fcich tbl-the Paris Peace Conference in Pershing and was allowed to The central figure in that,
Vice President to a neighbor's 1919. In collaboration with procee julles organized a far- operation, known to the Ameri-I
phone. Mr. Dulles used the hourHamilton Fish Armstrong, edi- Mr. cans as Operation Sunrise,(
to unearth a copy of the Presi-tor of the council's quarterly reaching American espionage was the commander efI
dential Oath in The World ,U review, Foreign Affairs, T,qi, center in Switzerland, mixing 'I'taly, 11 SS (Elite Guard) forces in
manic, and Mr. Ilughrs die-Dulles wrote two books, "Can circumspection with daring and Gen. Karl Wolff. Mr. Dul-
tated it over the telephone LoWe Be Neutral?" in 1935 and cultivating the habit of silence les et him secretly and then
Mr. Coolidge's father, a notary"Can America Stay Neutral?" and the art of drawing others set up the first meeting between
public, who administered it to in 1933. out. high-ranking Allied officers-
his son. The books reflected a turn- Caution did not eliminate then Maj. Gen. Lyman L. Lem-
In Washington Mr. Dulles at-ing away from the pre-World blunder. In a dimly ,lighted nitzer and a Briton, Maj. Gcn.1
tended law classes at night at War I attitude that there could hotel corridor one night a Terence S. Airey-with a Ger-
George Washington Univcrsity,be such a thing as a "strict" stranger approached Mr. Dulles man general, Wolff, to discuss,
and in 1926 he received an and "impartial" neutrality, and and asked him, "I beg of you, a German surrender, The meet-'
LL.B. degree. Then, when betook the more pragmatic posi-,where is 11.0?" That happened 'ing was hold in Ascona, Switz-
iwas reassigned to the post of tion that neutrality was merely to he his secret intelligence erland, at the villa of Gero von
counselor to the United States a policy that a country agent's number and Mr. Dulles S. Gaevernitz.
Legation in Peking at a salaryat peace adopted toward ted toward a blurted out, "You are talking Hesitation by German gen-
of $8,000 of a year, the e same as country at war. to him. I'm. 110." Too late he orals and political complications
his pay as division chief, he But as World War 11 neared, realized that the stranger was in Washington set the opera-
quit government service. Mr. Dulles grew increasingly merely looking for his room. tion back, and when the Rus-
quit of the chances that signs got wind of it they v -are
His resignation letter, a po- ' Nazi Documents Obtained
war could be avoided or that furious. In March, 1945, they
low lite sal but rie }p the esta diploma' ieclthe United States could stay In Bern Mr. Dulles made con- angrily protested to Washing-
profession, appeared in the out once it came. In May, tact with a man known only as ton that the Americans ware
profession, e11941, in fact, he urged the George Wood, an employe in 'negotiating with the Germans
press The caused small stir. United States to enter the war the German Foreign Office in behind their hack, and in April
in The New York k World on for reasons of "enlightened Berlin. Over a two-year period Stalin wrote an accusatory let-
Oct. 3, 1926, Mr. Dulles cot selfishness." "George" directed more than ter to President Roosevelt, who
forth, in a characteristically ,England and the United 2,000 Nazi documents across replied, "1 cannot avoid a feel-
dry style with close attention States together can survive," he the border, making micro ing of bitter resentment toward
didetat, the lacks indep the observed to a a Republican com- films of them in an operating your informers, whoever they
diplomat, who lacks ~m mittee. It might not be pos- room at Charite Hospital in the are, for such vile misrepresen-I
ent means. sible for them to survive German capital. tations of my actions or those
"I have always endeavored separately. Through this contact Mr. 'of my trusted subordinates."
0 to live modestly," be wrote, At Sullivan & Cromwell Mr., Dulles reported the presence' Admiral of the Fleet William
"hut one is compelled to es- Dulles drew upon and expand- of a clandestine radio trans- D. Leahy called the episode
tablish contacts, to accept and ed his wide acquaintanceship mitter in the German Embassy, "our first acrimonious alterca-
return entertainment and de- in Europe, traveling there ire' in Dublin that was used to tion with the Russians since
port himself generally in a way guently. He became a director direct submarines for raids on they joined the Allied cause,"
that will be a credit to hint- of the J. Henry Schroder Bank- Allied shipping. Plans to trap For his part, Mr. Dulles
self and his Government, ing Corporation of New York, an American troop convoy were justified the operation on the
"This does not mean," he the American branch of an old uncovered in time to reroute, ground that perhaps thousands
went on, "that Foreign Service British banking house of Ger- the ships. of lives could be saved, and
officers must be 'pink tea' art- man origin. And he was in- "George', Italian industry in northern
ists. That is a silly notion. It Another tip from
v his firm's work for exposed the valet of the Brit- Italy saved from destruction at
is a well-known fact, however, such uch German clients as Ver- ish Ambassador in Ankara as the hands of the retreating
that a great deal more can be einigte Stahlwerl;e (the Fritz a spy . Nazis, if the war could be
accomplished over the dinner Thyssen steel trust) and I. G. ended there sooner. He also
table or during a social call Farbenindustrie, te chemical l.. Mr. Dulles also made contact suspected that the real cause
in the evening than in an trust. ,with Hans Bernd Gisevius, a of the Russians' anger was their
office." German diplomat who was one fear that an early settlement
Joining the O.S.S. of the group of conspira- in Italy might allow Allied
From Washington Mr. Dulles
went to Wall Street and the Colonel (later Maj. Gen,) Wil tors who attempted to assas forces to drive on to Trieste
law firm of Sullivan & Crom- liam J. Donovan was looking sinate Hitler with a bomb on and Venezia Giulia before the
well, where Foster was already for men with just such broad July 20, 1944. Through Gisevius .
a partner. European connections when he Mr. Dulles kept the Govern , Soviet Army could get there.
I the staff of thelment informed of the plotters' : Later, some tellies contended
poster had a reputation for was building activities. that the operation helped to
legal brilliance if a rather se- wartime intelligence agency,
were personality, but Allen was
the Office of Strategic Serv- He urged Washington to en- I destroy hopes, of postwar to be remembered as it man I ices, after Pearl Harbor. Mr. courage and assist the German .operation with the Russians and
who "bubbled over with en-Dulles, an acquaintance from underground, but here as i strengthen the impression that
thusiasm, laughed a lot, had (both Washington and New in other activities Mr. Dulles 1Mr. 'Dulles was as much an
myriad friends, was always York days, was one to whom ran up against skepticism in architect as a prosecutor of the
talking, always gay." he turned. Washington and also the in- cold war.
Mr. Dulles was of that breed I Mr. Dulles was assigned tolisistence on unconditional sur- The spy network that Mr.
of lawyer who shuffles between Bern with orders to gather in render, a slogan that he said Dulles established also succeed-
private practice and Govern- formation on the enemy andlIthe Nazis were able to use , ed in obtaining information
mcnt service. In 1927 he served assist the anti-Hitler under- to "prolong a totally hopeless labout the Nazi V-weapon pro
as legal adviser to the Three- ground. But in November, 1942,1 war for many months." The gram. This led to the bombing
Power Naval Conference. In half the fun was getting there. unconditional - surrender policy of the research center at
1932 and 1933 he was adviser toy At his train's last stop in made it impossible to promise 1Peenemundc, which was said
the United States delegation at occupied France before the German dissidents less rigid 1to have set back the Nazi
the Geneva Disarmament Con- Swiss border, Mr. Dulles's pass- terms for peace if Hitler were rocket-development program by
fcrencc. And in an unsuccessful port was examined by an ap- overthrown. at least six critical months,
brush with politics, he was do- parent Gestapo agent. Soon a In the book "Germany's Un After the war Mr. Dulles re-
feated in a primary race fora French gendarme told him he derground," published in 1947, .turned to New York to prae-
Congressional seat ink tQv ' to he c}~~j< ~ to the histor B fore long he was
in 1938. rfO" ~~'r"'`'" ;o"'eeli 8Ar 100 0~ # A'aft the legislation
 to set up the Cc+QII IPrf qpi N t4ra ~34J~/9& tg~At Q,ti75 ~~ QQ94, Q140A procedures and
ligence Agency. and a year this was no small matter for face is tho Connnwnist peril."personnel of the agency, and in
later he headed a conunittee tlir. head of an agency under he once said. "']'hat is the onlySeptember he appointed Jolla
to report on the effectiveness suspicion if only becau~;e of the.peril to our frecdmns, to ourA. McCone to succeed Mr.
of the agency as it was organ- secret nature of its t: s!c. institutions, to everything we Dulles.
ized under the law. His strong positign helped hold dear." His View of Invasion
17% 1 In 1P30 the C.I.A.'s director, him withstand the challenge The alarms lie often sounded Air. Dulles himself spoke
N%W Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, in- of McCarthyism. When Senator 1)'11Y net roily in file
vited Ali-. Dulles to Washing- Joseph R. McCarthy of Wiscon- ideological area. 1'he Govern-little in public about the Cuban
ton to "discuss the report" with in was weakening g Washing- ment turned to the C.I.A. for'affair, but when he did do so
him. Mr. Dulles stayed for I I ton agencies and destroying'national estimates, and in 19591 it was not to acknowledge that
years, first as deputy director, c:,reers with sensational charges Mr. Dulles estimated that the the plan might have been mis-
then as director, of Communist infiltration, Soviet growth rate was suffi- "More than any other indi-~Mr. Dulles successfully fought lent to double industrial out-conceived. Once, when he was
vidual, Allen Dulles is respcn- Ili!,,, off. 'rh:! Senator got no- ut in well under a decade. He'asked whether the invasion at-
sible for the C.I.A. as it is to'where with attacks on Willi, sternly warned against fallingitempt was not both immoral
day," Russell Baker of The New P. Bundy, a high C.I.A. aide victim to any "false tranquil-land illegal, he replied that thf'
York Times wrote in 1958. "In and later an Assistant Secre- izer" about Soviet growth. question was whether the Un!q
one way or another, he has l,arv of State. Mr. Dulles reso Ironically, one of the great! States involved with the creation lutely refused to release Mr. intelligence achievements of?,ed States should have told t1Y
of the agency almost from its Bund denouncin charges b the period ended as an interns-'Young men of the anti-Castii
inception and over the last five the Senator as false. y,ticnal political setback. This brigade, "who asked nothing
years has put his personal , That political skill was help- was the U-2 incident in 1960.Iinore than the opportunity to
stamp on jr." ping efforts by some in Con-.taking detailed pictures from a The country" and were ready.
The Dulles C.I.A. was con-'~gi?ess to establish a joint Con--height of more than 70,000to risk their lives to do s4,
sidered a "happy shi ".at least gressional committee to watch feet was shot down over th
p- cl that they could expect no syr~ --
until the Bay of Pigs failure.;over the activities of the C.I.A. Soviet Union. 1 athy or support from tl-.
The agents looked upon the His4 argument that agency se-, The U-2 flights had been pro?Unied States.
director as a colleague, and the eras would be susceptible to:;viding the United States w,tY, The Bay of Pigs affair was
director bore down on opera-,, "`leaks" through such a com-,vital information about the So
Jnal activities and natinal mitteovercame the concern viet missile development pro!generlly considered a water-
tiu,atin# processes, leavinabout the fact that the among other things. Buhshrd in the history of the
ministrative details other:was immune from the ordinary! when the plane was broughllC.IA. The era when`Mr. Dulles
his Subordinates ir rras forms of Congressional checlcs.ldown an angry Premier Khru.Iran the agency pret y much as
reat white case officer" be-.I In 1956 the Soviet Premier,;ishchev called off a summitihe saw fit, and
use of his interest in the de? Niki when through
I..ta Khrushchev, made . aconference that had been;
tails n operations. his publicly prominent person-
,
rrle',rrted snecrh to the 20th' scheduled for Paris in the hope alitY stayed very much in the
of into the ns. He always public it eye, juicy ones," one Conbgress of the Communist of easing world tensions. publ came to an abrupt
g j halt. Its operations came under
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associate remarked, party denigrating Stalin. The. Mr.
There were many juicy ones. speech marked an important that Premier Khrushchev had far more rigorous surveillance,
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Was there a 20 per cent chance turn in Soviet life, the end of 'merely seized' upon the U-gland its directors tended to stay, to overthrow a "leftist" regime the Stalin personality cult and incident as a pretext to scut- discreetly six in years the after his background.
retire-
in Guatemala? Mr. I')ulles the start of a broad program tie a conference he had no wishli?lent, the curtain was lifted on
thought so, and President l i- that came to be known as de to attend. But skeptics con- mother of Mr. Dulles's C.I.A.
senhower took the chance. And Stalinization, but the speech' tinned to feel that the episode policies, the secret subvention
on June 30, 1954, the Govern- was not made public. Mr. Dul- had served to exacerbate ten- of the National Student subvention
of
llidd it sioris at a time when they
of President Jacobo Ar-es aways consere one ?
might have been eased. flog. We obtained what we
benz Guzman was overthrown of the coups of his career that wanted," he said in justifies=
the C.I.A. was able to obtain The biggest blow to the ~.
after a 12 day "civil war en
stature however Was tion of the subsidies. If we
CIA'
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a co of the speech and pub
-...,, gineered the chance pY I i turned back the Communists
Was there a chance to to licize it to devastating props- the calamitous attempt Ito in-
p and made then, milder and
Soviet communications lineslgarida effect. vale Cuba just after John F.
through a tunnel between Eastl r,asier to live with, it was be-
Not for this reason alone did Kennedy took office. There, all
g cause we stopped them in cer-
and West Berlin? There was, Mr. Khrushchev have reason to the worst fears of critics that ! tain areas and the student area
and the project was successful know the Dulles name, and the agency might come to mixltam one of them."
until the Russians accidentally when the Premier came to thel advocacy with execution in was Mr. Dulles was called out of
were dug into trying the to tunnel repair a when ltheeakyUnited States in 1959he_Was; a given intelligence operation
to serve
' beyond the conspiratorial. He: seemed to be realized, retirement for a year to serve
Commission
1,500
in their own cable tunnel. interested in meeting the Intel-' The landing by about the President's e
anti-Castro Cuban "freedom on the Assassination of Presi-
Was there a chance, in 1953,;ligence chief at a White House' dent John F. Kennedy, which
to overthrow Mohammed MOs fighters" took place at the flay was headed by Chief Justice
Ito
as Premier of Iran and dinner. ,of Pigs on April 17, 1961. From Earl Warren.
(restore to power Shah Moham-~ You know Mr. Dulles, don't the start the invaders suffered
you?" Vice President Richard, from insufficient ammunition. Otherwise, he lived quietly
th
med e United .tats a The of and inadequate air support, and at Highlands, his home on
the United States? The C.I.A. M. Nixon said to the.PremiCU , ! Wisconsin Avenue in Washing,
A crowd chanting over cigars after the dinner. within a few days the e Castro ton
There he wrote "The Craft
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pro-Shah slogans and an attack
e b Oh; yes, I read your re tort', taking the surviving in- of Intelligence" in 1963 and
,.y pis-Shah troops on the Pre- :n T .r. Khrushchev said to, vaders as prisoners.. "The Secret Surrender" in 1966.
pl
ans resiucncC came with well- Mr. , Dulles. The political repercussions Last year he edited "Great
planad precision one night in "I hope ,you get them legal- were at least as formidable as True Spy Stories," an anthology
August, and soon the Shah wasly," Mr. Dulles said. the military defeat. The coup- 1of modern espionage caper:. A
uyin,^^, home from Rome to set "'011,* yes," the Premier re- try's -allies seemed no less New York Times review liked
up a pro-Western regime.
Mr. Dulles loved these ?ad- Joined. "We get these reports shocked than the nonaligned it to "a special museum ex-
ventures, and in carrying the same sources and the states over Upited States par- ?hihit
same agents. It's a pity that Iticipation in such an undertak- We linger where we plerese,"
supreme them ,
out he placed sng conk- ."
dente in his personal judg-,wc don t get together and pay. ing, and President Kennedy's the notice said. "We come bat
meets. Colleagues recalled thatthese agents only once and, prestige was sharply undercut when we're in the mood. With
he would cut off debate about save money." after only three months in of such a gui a Jas Mr. Dulles]
,Well, this would he a kind five. and such a '!L '?~" )oitb Nt'"r'r?
the intentions of a foreign head
of state with the remark, "Oh, of sharing-the-wealth pro- Publicly Mr. Kennedy spared age reader
1 know him personally. He gram,, Mr.Dulles suggested. Mr. Dulles the wrath he was twill find rich rcwaras:
l{cnow known to feel toward the C.I.A., '-
would never do a thing like But the banter did not r?c-
that." ~~gqrovec~ ,ji Rol@ r
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But Mr. 1)ut!cs's slcfI s ran rc w uch ;
beyond the conspiratorial. liclthe Communist threat. I think, sion, plan. But, he. quickly acted
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From The Secret Surrender"
Mr. Dulles with Gero von S. Gaevernitz, at whose villa
he set up a secret meeting of Allied'and German officers
during World War 1I to discuss A. German surrender.
United Press International
President John F. Kennedy presenting National Security
Medal in 1861 to Mr. Dulles, outgoing C.I.A. director..
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