HE SCORED MANY TRIUMPHS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040137-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 137
• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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troops in Italy before the actual end of the triumphs.
'Allen W. Dulles, often called the nation's ' war in Europe. lie got a copy of the secret
top spy, is dead at the age of 75. speech Khnischchev made denouncing Stalin
Mr. Dulles headed a controversial agency before the speech was delivered..:'
and ironically his triumphs were little known Mr. Dulles was immensely' proud of the
but his failures were trumpeted to the world. bitter criticism Pravda heaped on him in 1951.
Few have forgotten the U-2 case in which a The Soviet newspaper said:
spy plane was shot down over Russia on the "Even if the spy, Allen Dulles, should arrive
eve of a proposed conference. between in Heaven through somebody's
President Eisenhower and Premier absent-mindedness, he would begin to blow
'Khrushchev. But the most heralded mistake up the clouds, mine the stars and slaughter the
was the tragic Y3ay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in angels."
which the CIA played a major role. This, coming from a hostile newspaper in
Soon after that mistake Mr. Dulles retired. .an unfriendly country, was accepted by Mr.-4
But the, CIA chief also achieved many Dulles as a great tribute. Probably he agreed `.'
triumphs about w cl'f-little publicity has been that one can best judge a man by the type of
given. His men ferreted out information of enemies he has.
world-shaking importance and Dulles helped Mr. Dulles no doubt made many mistakes
plan the policies. He knew in advance of the for he headed an agency that worked in a.
plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944, He knew and shadowland shrouded with secrecy. But he
reported to this Government the Nazi rocket. also. scored many triumphs that. kept the
experiments and about V'-2 bases being set up. government informed and better prepared to
for the bombardment of England. He act before the events occurred.
negotiated the surrender of 1,000,000 Nazi His mistakes should not overshadow hiss
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