Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least clarity." There was also the danger of "floating authorization." Thus Richard Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1973, testified that as deputy director he had not informed incoming Director John McCone (1961-65) about the use of Mafia characters in the Castro plots. As Helms told the committee, Allen Dulles, McCone's predecessor, had approved the plan and further authorization was unnecessary...
...jelly beans as he works over his papers and speeches, which he writes in a personal shorthand on 4-in. by 5-in. index cards, or watches television. Favorite programs include The Waltons and reruns of Mission: Impossible. His best-liked authors include William F. Buckley Jr. and Allen Drury...
...known in the eleven years since the Warren Commission issued its 888-page summary and 25 accompanying volumes of exhibits and testimony. Headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission included Congressmen Gerald R. Ford and Hale Boggs, Senators Richard B. Russell and John Sherman Cooper, former CIA Director Allen W. Dulles and former Diplomat John J. McCloy. The mass of evidence was gathered over nine months and based on some 25,000 interviews conducted by the FBI, another 1,550 by the Secret Service. In addition, the commission's staff of 14 lawyers examined 395 witnesses and took...
...Allen Dulles, a former CIA director and member of the Warren Commission, was aware of the CIA attempts to kill Castro; but he never told the commission. Yet that possible motivation for a plot against Kennedy was something the commission was entitled to know...
...have created over the years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...