PRESIDENT'S BY GOLLYS' SHOW HE LIKES PHOTOGRAPHERS' WORK

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1954
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Preside y Gollys' Show.
r "Dwight David Eisenhower- I and smoke curled upwards., "Ha
He Lkes ~htogra plhers WOI March 31,1954,": and added this looks like a dissolute character
there ,, said Gen. Eisenhower.
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.. . in el-- "They are some darn fine plc= I part o _ e appropra ion or ostscript on the line below: ; MY
tures, aren't they?." ~i 4 aclrto ,the Treasury. I
This was President Eisenhow-
er's. comment as he' completed
inspection of some 550 pictures
in the White House News Pho-
tographers' Association's 11tH'
Annual News Photo Exhibit at
the Library, of Congress.; yes-
terday afternoon.
The President spent. 46.nin-
utes looking at the pictur s and
discussing some other = oXhibits
in the library with Acting Li-
brarian Verner W. Clapp.
When he came to the library's
exhibit of manuscripts and other
items associated with Abxaham
Lincoln, Gen. Eisenhower turned
to reporters `accompanying him,
and remarked, - "The turmoils,
and troubles in his life were
terrific."
M. Clapp took the President
to a balcony overlooking the li=
briiry's main reading zoom and
there'told him som, 'thing: of the
library's 'construction: He re-
marked that- the building..was
buzilt by thf. Army engineers and
o'if Tournariment and remat ecl:
lef6nse the '. Na 3pXial Celebes
That shows, how he's- really
4~ ed that chub through."
Yl President paused in front
e showingSecretary of ,
Wilson. during a hearing 1
efore the Senat9 Armed $erv--
ces Committee. A cigarette
firooped from Mr. Wilson's lips
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fight the'Presiden 's attention.
showed the youngster looking
rough his fingers at the cam-
a. "Talk about hamhning," the
eri now, the President
remarked,
As he looked over the photo
exhibit, the President had some-
thing to sayabout many of the.
He paused for a moment be He also showed an Interest
fore a picture adey John.. pictures reflecting his favorite
Horan, of Th Star, showing ports-golf and fishing. One
Chief Justice Warren and? his icture `showed liim netting a
wife and daughters attending tje rge fish on .t] last day of his
inaugural concert last Year. }inn in Colt arln last, year
.
claim- e "Justioe warrejl~A home "Colorado, I think-_i can tell
ought to be popular., with the y the fish."
young bucks. Aren't they good Hei looked 44 -picture of Barn
looking girls?" nead blasting,- out of rough
graphs of him looking- at the
exhibit Gen., .,Eisenhower said
`. Let's be sure to get this one
its my favorite," and 'walked
over to stand beside- pictui e
showip g his six year-old grand
son (avid? bowing as' he.,shook
hands with him.
He signed the library's register
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 I t was March 5th, 1953. In Wash-
ington, D. C., top government
officials had just received the
Al
Ainorictis Master Spy
We've learned, we no longer, regard spying "dirty business."
Today, our CIA is beating the Russians at their own game
cli Ijillies.-.
by Martin L. Gross
startling news. Joseph V. Stalin was dead. The White
House and the Pentagon were paralyzed. Excited officials
asked each other: What does it mean? Would it set off a
new Russian revolution? Or would pudgy Malenkov's
bombers soon be leveling New York and Detroit?
All eyes turned to Allen Dulles, head of our super-secret
Central Intelligence Agency-the man responsible for
knowing what is going on behind the Iron Curtain. No one
could act without his intelligence report.
It wasn't long in coming. Soon after the first newspaper
extras hit the stands, one of our agents left Allen Dulles'
private office at CIA headquarters. He clutched a sealed
envelope under his arm. A few minutes later he strode past
White House guards and was hurriedly ushered into the
inner confines of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He placed the
envelope on President Eisenhower's desk.
It was the CIA's top-secret "crash report" on Stalin's
death. Included in the portfolio were last minute espionage
reports from our undercover agents in Moscow, Prague,
Warsaw and East Berlin. Copies of stolen Russian docu-
ments, notes on Red' Army troop movements, political re-
ports from men close to the Kremlin. It was everything the
President had to know.
The vital report was the result of the fantastic CIA co-
ordination. Seconds after the news of Stalin's death flashed
on the teletype at CIA headquarters at 2430 E. Street, Allen'
Dulles sprang into action. Word was sent to hundreds of
regular CIA agents and anti-communist spies on our pay-
roll throughout the world. Dulles' orders were blunt and
simple: bring in every scrap of information on the strength
of the new Communist regime and its war plans.
His orders were immediately transformed into action.
In West Berlin, a newly-arrived East German "business-
man" cast a nervous glance over his shoulder. He stepped
into a phone booth and dialed the number of his American
(,IA contact-another supposed businessman.
"The machinery is still in the same warehouse," the
German said into the phone. The CIA agent understood.
It meant that the Russian tank division in the East Berlin
suburbs had not been moved since Stalin's death.
In Prague, an important Communist official out for an
evening's stroll brushed past one of Dulles' agents. Their
hands met for a split second. Safely stowed away in our CIA
man's pocket was the latest Kremlin directive to satellite
leaders. These scenes were repeated
across the length and breadth of
the Iron Curtain.
In Washington, the lights of the CIA's 34 buildings
burned late into the night. Incoming cables from overseas
offices were quickly decoded. They told the full story of
Soviet armament shipments, purges, morale behind the
Iron Curtairn, the state of Russian fifth columns, and Red
Army troop movements. Usually jovial CIA chief Allen
Dulles grimly called a hurried conference with his top
aides, including Lieutenant General Harold R. Bull and
Professor Sherman Kent of Yale. The last-minute reports
from the field were evaluated. They were then compared
with background material oii Malenkov and the new Soviet
leaders.
The result, the CIA emergency "crash report," was finally
in the President's hands for action. Allen Dulles-backed
up by a fabulous staff and 15 hard-won years of intelligence
experience-had assured President Eisenhower that Russia
was not ripe for either revolution or an atomic war. Wash-
ington breathed easier.
The cloak and dagger CIA is something new in Ameri-
can life. For a long time, "spy" was considered a dirty word
in our vocabulary. In fact, back in the 30's, Secretary of
State Henry Stimson cut out the super-secret "Black Cham-
ber" division because "gentlemen don't read each other's
mail." But the heroic adventures of our undercover OSS
agents (luring World War II taught Washington a lesson.
Today, somewhere between 3,000 and 10,000 American
CIA agents, spread out from Germany to Singapore, cajole,
buy, and steal information of all kinds for Uncle Sam.
The CIA is a secret agency. It is so secret that less
than a dozen men know its budget or how many employees
it has. Estimates of its budget (a good clue to CIA strength)
vary from $10,000,000 to $500,000,000. But only a few care-
fully chosen Congressmen know the exact figures. CIA funds
are cleverly hidden away in the budiets of other govern-
ment agencies.
Dulles' agents are spotted in some 30 foreign nations,
where they pose as "insurance salesmen" or "importers."
They operate under dozens of different covers and their
true identity is kept secret, even from trusted American
officials in the same country.
CIA men never carry important documents. These are
sent to Washington by a special top-secret courier service.
 Communists claim CIA conspired with Laszlo Rajk (left),
Hungary's Foreign Minister, and Rudolf Slansky (right),
CPYRGHT
When a CIA agent is hurt in an accident out of town, Allen
Dulles quickly whisks him out of local hands. Those who
crack under the strain of espionage work are cared for by
the CIA's own doctor-agents. In a coma, or under the
influence of drugs these men might reveal secret irtfornta-
tion.
CIA office trash-from Dulles' office clown to the lowliest
clerks-is shredded and burned daily, The charwomen who
clean up are thoroughly screened. Even typewriter ribbons
used on secret documents are taken out of the machines and
locked uli for the night.
Employees of the CIA go through Washington's most
severe security check. Out of every 1,000 job applicants,
800 are quickly weeded out. Of the remaining 200, only
90 lucky ones come through after being screened to see
if they talk too much, can't carry their liquor, or have rela-
tives behind the Iron Curtain.
Secrecy has been the motto of the CIA ever since it was
first organized by President Truman in September, 1947.
A CIA official once said: "Art intelligence officer who talks
about his work ceases to be an intelligence officer." Officially,
all the Agency will say about its work is: "The main func-
tion of the C[A is to coordinate intelligence activities....
CIA's security responsibilities are limited to the area out-
side the United States and no one connected with the CIA
will discuss them in any manner.... Employees of the CIA
will never tell what their duties are, how they work, with
whom they work. They will say they are employed by the
CIA, period."
The man who runs this close-mouthed, secret agency for
America is lanky Allen Welsh Dulles, Washington's official
master spy. Not too long ago, Dulles was engineering minor
revolutions, outwitting the highly-praised Gestapo, and
stealing Nazi secrets from under Hitler's nose.
To find out what makes a 20th century master spy click,
CAVALIER arranged an interview for me with Mr. Dulles.
I met himn. at CIA Headquarters in Washington, D. C.
The nerve center of the CIA is housed in a cluster of
about 10 old buildings on a small hill on the outskirts of
Washington. During World War II, it served as OSS head-
quarters. The entrance to the property is plainly marked
"Central Intelligence Agency." The driveway bears uphill
then bends right and left up to the Administration Build-
ing where Dulles works. I got no further than the lobby.
A uniformed guard stopped me. 'Then a ruddy faced mili-
tary-looking man suddenly appeared from a little ante room
off the lobby and introduced himself. "I'm Colonel Stanley
Grogan," he said, "one of Mr. Dulles' assistants."
I was given a preliminary briefing by the Colonel. He
warned me not to ask' certain questions, and told me to
avoid certain topics because of security.
About an hour later, Mr. Dulles arrived back at CIA.
Headquarters after a mid-day plane trip to New England.
I interviewed him in his inner office where he was seated
Party head in Czechoslovakia. Both men were executed
for treason. Center, trial scene of Rajk and accomplices.
behind a large desk Flanked by flags of the United States and
the CIA. Hd rose to say hello, and for a man who is known
to operate on a split second schedule, he seemed completely
relaxed as he spoke.
Dulles is a tall, well-built man of about 190 pounds.
He looks younger than his 60 years and bears only a slight
family resemblance to his famous brother, John Foster
Dulles, our Secretary of State.
He wore what is considered an Allen Dulles "uniform"-
a tweed suit and a pipe that he kept putting in and taking
out of his mouth. With his bristly mustache and bouncy
youthful manner he reminds a lot of people of the old
Roughrider, Teddy Roosevelt, in his slimmer days, Yet
Dulles looks more like a prep school headmaster than the
wily master spy history has proven him to be.
in reply to my question, "How good is the CIA?" Dulles
bit on his pipe and thought a moment.
"Well, that's a tough one.. It's hard to say how good
the Central Intelligence Agency is; but I can say that we're
always improving. I can't say that I'm satisfied. If I were, it
would be time to hang up and quit. In this business, you
can never be satisfied that you're doing enough. There's
always another idea you haven't thought of."
The next question was a touchy one. "The American
people," I said, "have always been afraid that we can't hold
a candle to the rest of the world in espionage and intelli-
gence work. Is that true?"
"No, it's not," Dulles said firmly. "Our intelligence work
is not inferior to other countries-although we have one
great. fault. We talk too much for our own good. We're
improving all the time," he repeated, "but you see it takes
years for a man to learn the very complicated intelligence
business. We have ten years experience counting the OSS
(luring World War IT. In ten more years, our career men
will be that much better."
Next, I asked Dulles about training agents. "Does the
CIA have a special school for its agents?"
"Yes," Dulles answered, "but I'm afraid. Fin not free to
say much more about it." The exact location of the CIA
school is secret, but we do know that many of Dulles' agents-
in-training spend up to two years learning to speak, read,
arid write a variety of languages.
"Is the CIA as good as the Russian intelligence network?"
I next asked.
The CIA chief pondered this a bit. "Well, let's say that
we still don't put as much emphasis on intelligence work
as the Communists do."
Mr. Dulles was just being modest, at least if what the
Russians say about him is true. According to the Kremlin,
the insidious spy work of the "imperialist warmonger"
Allen Dulles is threatening the entire Communist world.
His agents, they claim, have wormed their way bohind the
Iron Curtain from East Berlin to Shanghai.
There have been a number of reports tying'Allen Dulles'
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As soon as Hitler was dead, Field
Marshal Erwin von Witzleben was to
assume control of all German land, sea
and air forces. The Replacement Army
was to restore order throughout the coun-
try. General Kortzflcisch, Nazi Command-
ing General of the Berlin Area was to be
arrested and replaced by General von
Thungen. Lieutenant General Paul von
Hase, Commander of Berlin itself, was
one of the plotters. Count Wolf von
liclldorf, Police Chief of Berlin, was to
hold his men ready until the Replace-
ment Army arrived to arrest the chief
Nazis and disarm the SS troops.
The conspirators' ace-in-the-hole was to
be the age-old blind obedience of the
Prussian officer. Scaled orders under the
code name "Walkure," had already been
sent out to every German command in
Europe by the conspirators in Army
Headquarters. At the signal that Hitler
was dead, orders to open them would fol-
low. The "Walkure" envelope contained
detailed instructions of the location of
secret Gestapo headquarters and orders
that martial law was to be enforced and
all Nazis arrested. The plotters had
guessed correctly in that no one had
opened the "Walkute" envelopes in ad-
vance to tip their hand.
Those generals who were irrevocably
bound to the plot-Field Marshal Rom-
mel; General Count Heinrich von Stulp-
nagel, Military Governor of France;
General von Falkenhausen, Military Gov-
ernor of Belgium; and Field Marshal.
von Kluge, Commander in Chief of the
Western front-were to arrest all SS and
Gestapo leaders and make preparations
to surrender to the Allies.
General Beck was to speak over the
official radio station, Deutschland Sender,
and announce that he was Chief of State,
There would be a three day state of emer-
gency, during which the Nazis would be
eliminated and a new governitient
formed. The new cabinet would immedi-
ately enter into armistice negotiations
with the Allies.
In Berrie, Dulles anxiously waited for
news of Hitler's death. Washington had
refused to take the plot seriously. But
the OSS Chief knew that if Stauffenberg's
bomb were well placed, there would be
no need to defeat the Germans in battle.
The night of July 20th, the news hit
Switzerland. The plot had failed. Hitler
had spoken on the radio.
"Air extremely small clique of ambiti-
ous, unscrupulous and at the same time
coolish, criminally stupid officers hatched
a plot to remove me and, together with
me, virtually to exterminate the staff of
the German High Command," Hitler
said.. "The bomb that was placed by
Colonel count von Stauffenberg ex-
ploded seven feet away from me on my
right side. It wounded very seriously a
number of my dear collaborators. One
of them died. I, personally, am entirely
unhurt, apart from negligible grazes,
bruises, and burns."
Hitler was not telling the truth.
Stauffenberg had placed the bomb just
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a few feet from him, but it had been After a while though, the Gestapo But one day the best source of informa*+"
movedbyAppyUt uft?akrgl} 'iko06 /03 "rGfAL ? }0n8 o0fop ca had during World War II
ing the briefcase. It ended in front of a isevius, but almost as soon as t ley ound Ius O TA into Dulles' office.
thick wooden table leg which acted as it, it somehow disappeared from their It was August 23, 1943. Dulles was
a shield. The bomb exploded as planned. files and ended up in Dulles', office. working in his upstairs office in the Amer-
Hitler was partially paralyzed on his right The material to be copied had finally ican Legation annex in Berne when one
side, and four Nazis were killed instantly. been assembled. Immediately it was flown of his lieutenants walked in. There was
But Stauffenberg, who had left the room, to the London OSS office where skilled a Dr. 0., a tall Prussian-like German with
thought Hitler was dead. He had one of printers worked furiously to forge the crew-cut grey hair downstairs, and he
.the plotters call ITilhelnrstrasse. escape documents and Gestapo badge. By wanted to see Mr. Dulles. "Arid here,"
h I' t ant said as be )laced three
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Thinking Hitler was dead, the plotters
launched the coup. But the Replacement
Army was turned back from Berlin by
orders countermanding those of the con-
spirators. Major Reiner, head of the bat-
talion sent to arrest GQebbels, was instead
put directly on the phone to Hitler in
East Prktssia. "I'm alivel" Hitler shouted
into the phone. He gave the major au-
thority to clean up the revolt. "Shoot as
many people as you like," he screamed.
The night of the 20th, the Nazis took
~"their vengeance. Under Scorczeny, the
`ruthless`-SS hatchet man, the round-up
went'on all through the night and into
the': `next morning. Dulles feared for
tisevius, who was in Berlin at the War
,h14nistry, during the thick of the ill-fated
flan. '.
tiles gambled that Gisevius had sur-
vived"the Gestapo terror of the 20th and
2t'st and was hiding somewhere in Ger-
many. - He circulated a rumor that
Gisevius had made his way back to Switz-
erland The Gestapo swallowed it and
combed that country up and down. But
of course, they never found Gisevius.
In August, Gisevius smuggled out word
to Dulles with 'the address of his hiding
place in Berlin. He was one of the few
who had escaped capture and execution.
Dulles was overjoyed. He was determined
to rescue his friend.
His plan `:was daring, but if it could
be pulled off, it would cut the vaunted
Gestapo down`to size. "I-Iimmler's secret
police and intelligence service," Dulles
maintained, "are reckless and cruel, but
they are neither very skilled nor really
subtle." Here was a chance to prove it.
What was-.the best way of eluding the
(estajiv? Why not, Dulles decided, make
Gisevius. 'one of them? Gisevius knew
Gestapo mannerisms and techniques.
With the right set of papers he might
make'it-to Switzerland.
to beeline "Dr. Hoffmann," a high- from Switzerlariu.
ranking functionary of the Gestapo on a During the sumnnt y of 1943, bits of
special mission to Switzerland, They information about "strange structures"
would need one of the thick metal badges the Nazis were building on the Baltic
carried by important Gestapo officials, coast near Peenemunde started filtering
and a special Gestapo passport with into his office. Dulles, followed up the
Gisevius' own picture. As an added touch, leads, and when he was sure something
Dulles decided they would forge a letter important was going on, he asked the Air
from the main Gestapo Headquarters in- Force to make a photo reconnaisance
structing all officials of the Nazi Party to flight. The developed pictures showed
assist "Dr. Hoffmann." the "strange structures" to be launching
Fortunately, the Gestapo had not un- sites for the new V-rocket. Peenemunde
covered every anti-Nazi conspirator. was the hidden research. center for the
Dulles made contact with one of Gisevius' program.
friends in the German Embassy in Berne Armed with Dulles' intelligence, a
who supplied him with cosies of various heavy air strike was called on Peene-
Gestapo passports and official documents. munde. The rocket sites were damaged
But Dulles had no picture of Gisevius. and the program that almost won the war
As it turned out, neither did the Gestapo. for Hitler was set back six months.
Gisevius had skillfully removed all his The OSS usually had to work hard for
photographs from all Nazi files. whatever intelligence it bought or stole.
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October, the papers were rea
All Dulles needed was a courier to take documents before Dulles. "He brought
it through hundreds of miles of Nazi ter- these with him."
ritory into Berlin. Again, Dulles thought, Dulles studied the papers. They were
we'll use one of them. headed "Geheime Reich Sache"-Secret
Dulles spread the word through some State Document. They were all addressed
German contacts. An old anti-Nazi friend to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign
of Gisevius, Henry Goverts, a Hamburg Minister of Germany. Each of them was
publisher and liaison officer for the from a different German ambassador.
Abwehr, volunteered for the job. He was Dr. O. told him the rest of the incredi-
to meet an OSS messenger at Constance, ble tale. "These are not the only papers,"
on the German-Swiss border where he the Doctor said. "I am merely an inter-
would pick up the forged Gestapo papers. mediary. The man who brought them
'Twice, lie came to Constance and is here now in Berne as a special courier
missed the OSS messenger. But finally, on to the German Embassy. Actually,
the third try, the dangerous papers were though, he is a trusted employee at the
transferred to Goverts. Auswaertiges Amt-the Foreign Ministry.
A few days later, the door bell rang He has much more important inforina-
in Gisevius' flat. But when he answered, tion, but he wants to meet Mr. Dulles
he saw no one. A blacked-out car was just personally."
milling away from the curb. Then lie no- This is preposterous, Dulles said to
tired a bulky package had been put iii himself. Intelligence work wasn't that
his mailbox. It was Allen Dulles' package easy. Perhaps, Dulles thought, this is a
from Switzerland-his Gestapo badge, trap-a German plan to break our code
passport, and official letter. by intercepting the message as it is sent
to Washington. Or perhaps Dr. O. was
a member of the Swiss Police. Espionage
On January 23, 1945, at 6 a.m., a dis- was illegal in Switzerland, and this could
Beveled giant of a man wearing a light be a trap. It was a gamble, Dulles
spring coat, torn and badly in need of a thought, but one that had to be taken.
pressing, stood at the customs gate at An appointment was made to meet at
Kreuzlingen on the German-Swiss boarder. Dulles' assistant's apartment in the Kirch-
The guard and the customs official stared enfeld district at midnight. There was
at this strange "Dr. Hoffmann" who was little time lost on formality. The courier
on a secret mission for the Gestapo. His took a large brown envelope out of his
appearance didn't inspire confidence. pocket. The flap was open. On it was a
Gisevius' body froze with fear as his pa- swastika. seal in dark red wax.
pers were inspected. He tried to keep "I think you will find exactly 186 items
the outward calm of a. self-assured SS of important information in the enve-
chief. "Ach, these mad Gestapo bigshots lope." He spoke in German. -This is
wear the strangest costumes," the petty the additional material Doctor O. spoke
official mutt d. They opened the gate. of. It is not all. I am prepared to bring
"Dr. Hoffmann ;'gave the Nazi salute and more information whenever possible."
passed into friar y$witzerland. Dulles and his assistant stared at the
Dulles' coup rescuing Gisevius, who courier, incredulous.
jncident illy now, Is in America, earned "I. have no doubt youi are wondering
across my desk in the Foreign ministry
where I am the assistant to Herr Ritter.
My job is to sift the paper work and bring
only the important matters to his atten-
tion."
Dulles studied a few of the secret Rib-
hentrop papers. There was a revealing
report on German troop morale on the
western front, a detailed inventory of
sabotage done by the French under-
ground, a memo of the conversation be-
tween Ribbentrop and the Japanese Ain-
bassador. Dulles was sure he had struck a
gold mine.
Dr. O. told Dulles how he had first ap-
proaclhed the British. The British were
interested, but when he told them the
courier wanted no money, they laughed.
They asked if it was a joke. If so, it was
not a very funny one.
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 As European OSS Chief, Dulles helped plot attempted bomb was to take over German government. Dulles smuggled his
assassination of Hitler (center). Gen. Ludwig Beck (left), - chief contact man, Bernd Gisevius (right), out of. Germany.
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CIA in with espionage and sa atoge e m E11 C tron -
tain. Our agents have supposedly been thoroughly trained
to use such innovations as plastic explosives that are put
on a building as easily as chewing gum, and microfilm that
will hide a complete four-page document under a postage
stamp.
But this is only penny-ante stuff, the Communists say.
According to them, Allen Dulles has been using American
cash and a tremendous network of "spies, informers,
'kulaks,' reactionaries, fascists, and Wall Street stooges" to
foment revolution behind the Iron Curtain.
Using a plan masterminded' by Allen Dulles, the Reds
say, CIA agents behind the Iron Curtain are cutting com-
munication wires,. slowing down factory production, dis-
rupting civilian morale, and worst of all, plotting with dis-
gruntled Communist satellite bosses to overthrow Russia's
puppet governments in Eastern Europe.
This is one Communist claim that doesn't sound like a
Vishinsky fairy tale. The Reds connect Allen Dulles with
every Eastern European leader who has gone to the gallows
for "cooperating with the imperialist west." His name has
become a curse word in the hallways of the MVD secret
police in Moscow.
The Dulles plan, against Russia, according to the Coin-
munist New York Daily Worker, is officially called "Project
K." One of Dulles' boldest schemes-a daring plot to over-
throw the Hungarian Communist government of Premier
Rakosi-was recently described iii' detai, in a series of
articles in the Daily Worker and called "Espionage, Inc."
It was also discussed in detail in a British Communist
pamphlet, "Cloak and Dollar War."
Allen Dulles set the fantastic scheme into operation
back in 1944, when he was still in the OSS, the Communists
claim. Dulles was worried that Eastern Europe would be
gobbled up by the Reds. He made contact with six impor-
tant Hungarian refugees in Switzerland. One of them was
Dr. Tibor Szonyi, a prominent pre-war politician.
The refugees returned to Hungary right after the war.
Under orders from Dulles, the Kremlin says, Szonyi and his
friends, now agents of America, became active members of
the Communist Party. Szonyi rose to the strategic position
of Personnel Chief of the Communist Party. After a few
years, Laszlo Rajk, the powerful secretary of the Hungarian
Party, was brought into the conspiracy. He was to become
head of the government after Rakosi was kicked out by
their revolution.
In time, the CIA reportedly took over activities of the
OSS. According to the Communists, our CIA contact man
was Lieutenant Colonel Kopscak, the American military
attache in Budapest. He was later kicked out of Hungary
by the Communists. They claimed he had photographed
secret military installations on the Hungarian-Yugoslav
border and had worked with 40 anti-Communist collabora- Gen. Karl Wolff, World War II Nazi Chief of SS in Italy,
tors. [Continued on page 44] arranged with Dulles the surrender of 600,000 troops.
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By 1949, the plotters were ready to
make their move. Dulles supposedly
helped plan the details. The plot was
bold but simple. Gyorgy Palffy, a pre-war
Hungarian officer and one of the con-
spirators, was named head of the entire
Hungarian Army. Rajk helped engineer
the appointment. His job was to organize
a Hungarian People's Army battalion
equipped with all the heavy weapons al-
lowed Hungary by the Allies. At the right
time, his battalion was to take over all
important government offices.
The date for the coup was set for early
June, 1949, but the Hungarian Secret Po-
lice got wind of it and swooped clown on
Rajk and the other conspirators. The
plot was killed. At the purge trials,
Rajk, Szonyi, and the others gave de-
tailed "confessions" of their collabora-
tion with Allen Dulles.
Dulles, the. Communists complain, has
also been using every trick of modern
psychological warfare in his campaign
against the Kremlin. One morning, Hun-
garians reading their newspaper found
a full-page insert that didn't read much
like the rest of the official party organ. It
was a fervent plea calling on the United
Nations to deliver Hungary "from the
boot of our Russian overlords."
One CIA plot to breed revolution be-
hind the Iron. Curtain is still going
strong, the Communists say. We are sup-
posedly right in the midst of a plan to
overthrow the Hodza regime in Albania.
According to Albanian reports, dozens
of Dulles' agents, armed and equipped
with short-wave transmitters, have been
smuggled into the country by land, sea,
and air. With local anti-communist help,
these "agents" are supposedly staging
guerilla raids, sabotaging Red military
projects and organizing a pro-western
underground.
Dulles and the CIA have gotten fea-
ture billing at the biggest purge trials be-
hind the Iron Curtain-Kochi Xoxe in
Albania, Kostov in Bulgaria, Gomulka in
Poland, and Slansky in Czechoslovakia.
At the Slanksy trial, the Kremlin
claimed that Dulles had plotted with the
former Communist leader to overthrow
the government. But when the plot
looked doomed, the Reds say, our secret
CIA headquarters in Frankfurt, West
Germany, made arrangements with
Slanksy to smugglr him out of the coun-
try. The CIA had secretly delivered a
letter to Slanksy, outlining the escape
route. Further messages were to be sent
to hini in code over Radio Free Europe.
But Slanksy never got out alive. The
Secret Police arrested him before the CIA
plan could be put into effect.
At Slanksy's trial, the Communists also
claim that Czech agents on the CIA pay-
roll are recruited from refugee organiza-
tions throughout Western Europe and
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financed by a secret $75,000,000 fund for
"Project X," controlled by Allen Dulles.
One million dollars of this CIA "revo-
lution fund," the Daily Worker claims,
was recently handed over to W.I.N.,
a group of Polish underground fighters
ranking with the best behind the Iron
Curtain.
Communist complaints like these fill
the pages of Pravda and the satellite
press. In fact, Allen Dulles' name is prob-
ably better known behind the Iron Cur-
tain than here in America.
Dulles came to the CIA with a list of
espionage credits that makes the Coni-
rnunist claims about hire sound tame.
Born in 1893, he was one of five chil-
dren of a Presbyterian minister, Rev.
Allen Macy Dulles. His grandfather,
John Watson Foster, was Secretary of
State under Benjamin Harrison and his
uncle, Robert Lansing was to become
Secretary of State under Wilson.
By the time he was 23, Dulles had an
M.A. from Princeton and :one year's
teaching experience in Allaliabad Chris-
tian College in India under his belt.
Then in .1916 he joined the State De-
partment's Foreign Service and was as-
signed to Vienna, the seat of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire. When America en-
tered the war against Austria in 1917,
Dulles was quickly whisked out of enemy
territory and sent to neutral Switzerland.
It was there that he first wet his toes in
the queasy business of "intelligence."
Dulles' appetite for secret intelligence
work was whetted. But it wasn't until
World War [1 and the'OSS, after spend-
ing 15 of the 20 intervening years as a
Wall Street lawyer, that he developed
his masterful talent for espionage.
Soon after Pearl Harbor, President
Roosevelt formed the OSS, an undercover
agency that was to handle jobs we
couldn't assign to either Army or Navy
G-2. Brigadier General "Wild Bill" Don-
ovan was named to head the new organ-
ization. He grabbed Allen Dulles out of
law practice and made him one of his
top assistants.
Dulles was first sent to Bolivia where
lie kicked the Nazis out of the airlines
business. Then in November 1.942, he
was dispatched to Switzerland, nominally
as the Special Assistant to the U. S. Min-
ister at Berne. but actually as European
Chief of the OSS.
Dulles began operations on the Her-
rerr.gasse, a street in Berne, with only
vague instructions from Washington. But
before long lie turned his OSS Bureau
into a center for all kinds of political
refugees from Hitler.
Dulles soon got his first important as-
signment. He was to contact the anti-Nazi
underground in Germany. He made dis-
erect inquiries among German refugees.
One of the clues led to the German un-
ally a member of the Abwehr, the seer t
Nazi intelligence organization.
Gisevius, who hated Hitler, had bee
assigned to Switzerland by General Oste ,
the deputy leader of the Abwehr. Ost
was one of the heads of the anti-Nazi co -
spiracy in Germany. Gisevius was to coy -
tact Dulles and through him seek Amer -
can help in a plot to kill Hitler.
The plot was no idle dream. The u -
derground leaders, Gisevius told Dulle. ,
included Colonel General Ludwig Bec ,
former Chief of Staff of the 1Fehrmach
:Admiral Canaris and General Oster
the Abwehr, General Haider, Count FIel -
dorf, Chief of the Berlin Police, an
dozens of high-ranking officers of th
I4'chrmacht.
Gisevius asked Dulles' help. Could h
get a promise from Washington that the
would welcome a new anti-Nazi govern
nient should their Hitler coup succeed
Dulles sent a number of coded tel
grams to Washington stressing th
urgency of the plot. Then one clay ii
February, 1943, Gisevius made contac
and suggested another meeting.
"We have to stop seeing each othe
immediately," he told Dulles. "The Nazi
have broken your code."
To prove his point, Gisevius reache
into his pocket and Nom a small not
book he read a digest of several message
Dulles had recently sent to Washington
He had seen the decoded telegrams i
the Berlin office of the Abwehr.
Dulles listened, then assured Giseviu
that "Breakers"-as lie called the anti
Hitler plot-was still intact. He had use(
.another code to transmit the secret infor
mation about the conspiracy.
In April, 1944, in the hope of arousin
Washington's enthusiasm for the plo
against Hitler, Dulles wired a summar
of the conspirators' position. But Wash
ington made no promises to "Break
ers." For weeks the Germans brok
off relations with Dulles after hearing th
discouraging news from Washington. Bu
then on July 12, 1944, Gisevius was or
dered to Berlin. The conspiracy wa
going ahead without Washington. The
date of the coup had been set for Jul
20th. Hitler was to be assassinated in hi,
East Prussian headquarters by one of hi.s
trusted aides, Colonel Count Claus von
Stauffenberg, the one-armed Chief of
Staff of the Germany Replacement Army.
Dulles learned the news from Gisevius.
Fie wired Washington the details. The
plot was amazingly simple. Colonel
Stauffenberg was to report to Hitler's se-
cret headquarters on July 20th. But in-
stead. of staff plans, his briefcase would
hold a new British-designed bomb to be
detonated by acid eating through a re-
lease wire. Stauffenberg was to place the
loaded briefcase near Hitler at the con-
ference table, and then leave the room on
some pretext. The second the bomb ex-
ploded, General Erich Fellgiebel, Chief
of the German Army Signal Corps, was
to call the plotters at 14"ehrmacht Head-
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was born, as General Eisenhower later
said, one of the Allies' most valuable in-
formants.
During the next two years, "Wood"
made five trips from Berlin to Berrie,
often at the risk of his life. In all, he de-
livered to Dulles 2,600 documents.
Through "Wood," Dulles learned of
the secret radio in the German Embassy
in Dublin that was directing Nazi U-
boats; of the Laval plan for the arrest
and possible execution of relatives of
soldiers who joined General deGaulle.
It was "Wood" who discovered the
identity of Cicero Diellio, the Nazi spy
who was a butler in the home of the
British Ambassador to Turkey-and later
became the subject of the film Five
Fingers.
One of. "Wood's" most important bits
of information was a message from the
German Embassy in Buenos Aires. It re-
ported the impending departure of a
large American convoy from an Atlantic
port. But as soon as Washington received
the news from Dulles, the shipping date
was changed. A number of U-boats were
highly disappointed.
Dulles' cables to Washington became
highly-awaited events. The German
courier received no money, or medals for
his heroic work. All he had was Dulles'
assurances that the free world would
never forget his contribution.
By February, 1945, the Allies had re-
captured most of Western Europe and
were pushing their way into Germany.
Dulles had. dor;e an ingenious job of in-
telligence, and his work seemed behind
him. But one day he received a visit from
Major Max Weibel, Intelligence Officer
of the Swiss General Staff.
He had come on behalf of SS General
Karl Wolff, Gestapo Chief of all Italy.
Wolff's proposition, as relayed by Wei-
bel, was startling. Both he and Field
Marshal Kesselring, as Commanders of
the SS and 1Vehrniacht armies in Italy,
were willing to negotiate with the Allies
to surrender 600,000 German troops then
in Northern Italy. The surrender had
nothing to do with Hitler and would be
accomplished without his blessings.
Wolff wanted to arrange a meeting
with Dulles in Switzerland to discuss the
surrender.
Dulles' first reaction to the fantastic
offer was one of skepticism. He told
Major Weibel he would think about it,
but could do nothing at the present time.
But as the days went by and the Allies
pushed forward, Dulles reconsidered. He
had read OSS reports on the increasing
defeatist attitude among the German offi-
cer ranks. Kesselring's reported agree-
ment to Wolff's plan made it sound more
authentic. Dulles decided it was too good
an opportunity to pass up. He contacted
Weibel and said he would agree to meet
with one of General Wolff's personal
representatives.
Late in February of 1945 General
Wolff, sent an SS officer, Dollman, to see
Dulles; but Dulles decided to have an
assistant handle this stage of the talks.
THE OFFICER WORE DIAPERS
Tere's a chance that Samuel Barron
may . the hitched up his diapers and
flashed proud smile as his famous uncle,
James Ba on, cooed into his ear, "You are
now a mi iptnan."
That is, i e knew what "midshipman"
meant. For muel Barron was just a
frail three-year our-month-old kid when
he was advised his United States mid-
shipman rank. Ev since that date, April
11, 1812, Samuel iron has kept his
name in the naval t cord books as the
U. S. Navy's youngest fficer.
Among the outsta ing beginners
young Samuel bettered this age-or
lack of it-contest were vid G. Far-
ragut, hero of Mobile Bay d "Darren
at 9r/2 years, Duncan N. ingrah , who
risked war with Austria by rescu g an
American citizen from an Austrian rig
and who had more courage at the ag of
petitor to Samuel's title of youngest naval
officer in American history was Louis M.
Goldsborough, who hooked up with the
Although he threw considerable s igh.t.
around his uncle's home, little muel
Barron had nothing to do wi his ac-
with half pay and allowats. It seems
that the Barron family s s always rep-
sion of naval Barron got a severe jblt
when the famed Je es Barron was sus-
pended because o Xis part in the Chesa-
peake-Leopard air in which the British
frigUncleate L?eopa . made a surprise attack
on Ja es' frigate, the Chesapeake.
The stri court-martial suspended the
veteran mes Barron for five years. Baby
Samue Barron had been born on No-
vem; r 28, 1808, and was only two years
of when his father died from "Asiatic
f. ver." He was then adopted by James.
With the stigma of suspension hang-
ing over the Barron family head, some-
one still unknown to history got a bril-
liant idea and wangled a midshipman's
warrant for young Samuel. Some fast
maneuvering brought baby SamueV his
rank and his first pay check when ,$,e was
barely able to stand. But even a mid-
shipman he probably fared Arse than
many kids today. He was a49 to receive
given to sailors jhose days.
dered to reporfto the Norfolk Navy Yard.
By tl?e time Samuel had reached 14
fter 15 yearsieiVice as a midship-
B y 1861 tthh remarks about "the officer
in diapers" hak completely disappeared.
Then shortly after hat he resigned from
the U. S. Navy to Cite conunand of the
Virginia Navy. Hew captured by the
Union forces but later ' as paroled and
exchanged on the prisone 'st. Back with
the Confederate naval forces a closed. his
career as a flag officer in Eu ie. When
the war ended, he retired to Vi inia.
Samuel Barron, the "diaper nr Ship-
man," died at the ripe old age of 79 Nilrs.
It seems very doubtful that his record
as the U. S. Navy's youngest officer will
ever be dunlicated
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"As a sign of his good faith," Dollman
said, "General Wolff is prepared to free
two of our most important Italian parti-
san prisoners, Professor Ferruccio Parri,
the partisan chief in Northern Italy and
Major Usniani, one of your collabora-
tors."
The two men worked out the details
for a meeting between Dulles 'and Gen-
eral Wolff. The elate was set for March
8, 1945.
"Both Kesselring and I wish to quit
this useless war so that we can avoid
further bloodshed and destruction in
Italy," the Nazi General told Dulles.
"Hitler has ordered a scorched earth de-
struction of Northern Italy when we re-
treat. I wish to avoid this at all cost. I am
therefore . prepared to discuss surrender
of our armies in Italy."
To show his sincerity, Wolff swore
that he would deliver several hundred
Jewish prisoners as soon as the surrender
was signed. fie would he personally re-
sponsible for: the 350 American and Brit-
ish POW's under his control. He also
guaranteed that the important ports of
Genoa and Trieste would be delivered
intact.
Dulles listened carefully to Wolff's
proposal. He felt certain that he was
telling the truth. At this late (late, the
Gestapo had nothing to gain by such
tactics. It was obviously a legitimate bid
to surrender. I f it could be worked out,
it would save thousands of American
lives.
Wolff departed with Dulles' promise
to contact Allied HQ at Caserta to ar-
range another meeting.
On March 13th, things started moving
quickly in "Operation Sunrise Cross-
word," as Dulles had dubbed it. Two
"sergeants" from Allied headquarters,
Nicholson and McNeely, arrived in
Berne that day. They went directly to
Dulles on the Herrengasse. For six clays,
the two men lived there behind drawn
shades, the reason for the security was
obvious. The two "sergeants" were really
U. S. Major General Lyman L. Lem-
nitzer, Assistant Chief of Staff at Caserta,
and British Major General Terence S.
Airey, the Combined Command's In-
telligence Chief. They were to meet with
Dulles and Wolff on March 19th to ar-
range the surrender.
On the 19th, the German and Ameri-
can delegation met near Locarno in two
villas borrowed for the occasion. The
American villa had a secret radio that
kept Dulles in constant touch with our
headquarters.
The meeting went off fine so far as
details were concerned. But a major hitch
had come up since the last meeting.
Kesselring had been transferred from
Italy and replaced by Colonel General
Heinrich von Vietinghoff, who was not
yet sold on unconditional surrender.
Nothing could be done until Vietinghoff
agreed.
Meanwhile our Army's advance was
cutting the line of communication be-
He could then radio Dulles in a secret
American code. Little Wally, a Czech
refugee, got the perilous job and he was
installed behind the enemy lines in SS
Lieutenant Zimmer's Milan apartment
overlooking Mussolini's secret hideout.
Dulles and Wolff kept in constant
touch, but Vietinghoff had not yet
changed his mind. To help persuade
him, Nazi General Wolff asked Little
Wally to radio Allied Headquarters and
ask for a slight "touch-up" bombing raid
on Vietinghoff's headquarters. Wally was
also kept busy directing Allied aircraft
to likely targets in the area.
Nothing much happened for almost a
month. Then.on April 21, Allied Head-
quarters abruptly told Dulles to cut off
his talks with the Germans. Dulles wasn't
told, but Stalin had become distrustful
of our OSS chief. Stalin had written both
Churchill and Roosevelt spouting fire
because he was sure Dulles was negotiat-
ing a separate peace with Germany.
President Roosevelt assured Stalin that
the plan was purely a military surrender.
A Soviet representative would be invited,
should anything concrete develop.
Finally, on April 24, 1945, Little Wally
sent news that Vietinghoff had agreed.
Wolff and his aides met .Dulles in Switzer-
land. They waited for news from Allied
HQ in Caserta. By April 27, the Russian
fears had obviously been soothed for
headquarters gave permission for the
surrender. Wolff's two representatives
were flown to Caserta where the docu-
ments were signed on April 29th. A few
days later, on May 2, 1945-five days be-
fore Germany capitulated-the 600,000
Nazi soldiers in Italy laid down their
guns.
Without so much as firing a single shot,
Allen Dulles had delivered a German
Army.
When the war ended, Dulles moved to
Germany as head of our OSS mission
there, then went back into private law
practice for a few years. But in January,
1951, he answered a call from the CIA.
By August of that same year he was
named the Agency's Deputy Director. In
February, 1953, he was placed in charge
of the entire organization.
When President Truman set up the
CIA in 1947, it was according to the
recommendations of a three man commit-
tee, one of whom was Allen Welsh Dulles.
The organization was put in charge of
all undercover work previously handled
by Army, Navy, and Air Force G-2 sec-
tions.
Whenever called to, the CIA makes
its important "crash reports" to the Pres-
ident and the National Security Coun-
cil. These National Estimates contain
not only information secured by es-
pionage, but a round-up of intelligence
obtained by analysis of foreign newspa-
pers, magazines, and radio broadcasts.
Once a week, the day before the Na-
tional Security Council meeting.`at the
White House, Dulles meets with the In-
telligence Chiefs of the F13I, State t fe-
lowing day Dulles makes his. weekly re-
port at the National Security Council
meeting.
Assisting Allen Dulles in running the
CIA is Lieutenant General Charles
Pearrc Cabell, Deputy Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence and former Director of
Intelligence for the Air Force. Robert
Amory, Jr., a 38-year-old former Profes-
sor of Law at Harvard, is in charge of the
vital Intelligence Division.
The CIA has a reputation for employ-
ing more super-civil servants ($12,000-
$14,000) than any other bureau in
Washington. The Agency's hush-hush
policy keeps the public from learning
much about its work. But occasionally
something happens that brings the CIA
to our attention. ~
Not long ago, for example, CIA agents
in Germany saved America a great deal
of embarrassment. A Soviet Guards Offi-
cer, Red Army Lieut. Colonel J. D. Tas-
soyev, crossed the Iron Curtain and ap-
proached American agents, saying he
wanted to desert the Russian Army. He
loved democracy, and had lots of secrets
to tell. He was a real find for an intelli-
gence agent, but something smelled
wrong to the sensitive nose of the CIA.
The orders were "Hands off."
The British, however, were more gul-
lible. They flew Tassoyev to London in
Montgomery's personal plane and set
him up in a fancy West Kensington flat
complete with blond female agent Betty
Wiggin. But instead of talking, the Red
Army "deserter" asked questions. What
was the route other deserters had taken?
How did Allied Intelligence learn so
much about Russia? The Tommies soon
learned that they had been taken. The
not-so-clever MVD Colonel was promptly
flown back behind the Curtain.
Another time, the CIA showed a curi-
ous American general the extent of the
Agency's knowledge. A high-ranking Air
Force official asked how much help the
Agency could give him in determining
bomb targets in a certain "Country X,"
a potential enemy. In five minutes, CIA
officials produced complete dossiers of
every significant target in the nation,
several thousand in all. The general was
deeply impressed.
Actually, things haven't changed too
much since Dulles' eventful years on the
Herrengasse. Today, Dulles' office is at
2430 E. Street, Washington, instead of
Berne, Switzerland. The aggressor is the
Soviet Union instead of Nazi Germany.
But the work of masterminding an intri-
cate espionage and intelligence network
for the United States is old hat to the
master spy with the innocent air.
Should we ever doubt it, we have only
to listen to the cackling criticism of
Dulles offered by Ilya Ehrenberg, the
Kremlin's best propagandist:
"Even if the spy Allen Dulles should
arrive in heaven through somebody's ab-
sent-mindedness, he would begin to blow
up the clouds, mine the stars, and slaugh-
ter the angels." ?
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