OUR MASTER SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200120057-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: September 28, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Aced crises of 2'ra1'e detrec during his ai,gthy
-? : to of ur nation's nrty% u'k.
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t,activities is known to 1;:ii;' trade ser.vus criicisin
~~~ tic internal organization of (..IA. these cri:icisnts,
STAT.INTL
Put Mr. Dulles, although he maititained close secrecy
I' n Cl '\ activities, newer, shunnetl personal publicity. In
fact, it was because he was known as the chief intelligence
atetlt of the U.S. in Switzerland in World War II that
German informants carte to him in 1944 with information
about the plot by highly placed anti-Nazis to assassinate
Adolf Hitler. -And again the following year the Gcrtn:an
military came to him to assure him that the Gcrm:.n army
it is said, reflected, upon. Mr. Dulles'.' methods a s . , in Italy was ready to surrender.
executive C~ffi ss+ ''tithe C~o~ #i tt xhut ce led him. to reply to critics of the
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com r, red
him in this ;respect with It rot? e t TC new,
lohn l~ oster Dul1e3, whb,'tried to rust th rate ~, , "N .t ' nceal what.'cannot or need not be
in the Eisenhower administration as is ire m
The CIA directoz'' refused, hotdc
co-tnmittee's recorrunendationis and l 1
declined to force them'ipof hier:; ~'c
And, in the last year and a
his agency went through two'pvb
ou'}.y
Went Through wa.gw'.#ahe,
Two Rig Crisps cident
"Dulles i i
l1clt ?reflet i
cm. The fir
to U-2 iii-
ring of 1Poo
collapse of the
Paris summit conference and-brought an unsurmoun
rift between President' Eisenhowcr"Ud``'Sdt4iet;Prein' `t
Khrushchev. The second was the unsuccessful attempt last
April to back an. invasion of Cuba b anti-Castro rebelst,
sponsibility for this 1nikalculls66n he;drdeted)"a` v i
investigation of the CIA, which hwd beea.in charge-of
the planning and training of -tha invasion io .:
In both inatancq,.,id1r, DuU.e"Loff* d Ito tb1a:#td ,qgp
goat and resign,, but both Presidents;; EtscalWt~rtr,td+
Kennedy refused the offers. Both-tames po*orful'friettds..
in Congress rallied to assure:. Mr. Dtalleq he would i
able to end bis long..t r of government ,service with'
honor. Thus he was rib to ,lsta.y long enough to ? fulf ilL
ore of his f des fee Of ^. iai. staff., ltp,-:
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Mr. Dulles instituted 'at.least one drastic change in
'p-; procedures. When he became the 'nation's chief In.
.w' d,, ~-in Swittctt y
a
World War II,
Institut d Change . l
)I In Si roeed tires the ol "fashioned persoit-
py to - person, word-of-mouth
method still was the basic mode of operation. The tradi-.
t ,n of secrecy still was so strong at the, time that 'the
serf of British intelligence was known only as "The
Brigadier'"and his real name, Menzies,, was not even
mentioned at cahiriet meeting's.
*,,'Switzerlandduring the war,
U ish intelligence agent, l tit
Or t?. Jnited States: That
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