Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Significant Contributions." CIA is only one of nine agencies* in the U.S. intelligence community, but it is primus inter pares and the right arm of the National Security Council. Master Spy Allen Dulles not only sketched its functions but also the kind of men the nation needed to attract to...
No one better personifies that description than Richard Helms, the man who now heads CIA. Although he has been with the agency since its start, no CIA chief ever came into office with such a passion for anonymity and downright disdain for public acclaim. His predecessors assumed the directorship after...
A professor of international relations at Howard University who has known Viet Nam since 1953, Fall says-correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint...
Crucial Decision. The scheme was effectively killed on April 3, 1954, when Dulles and Radford met with eight legislative leaders to plead for Congress' support. Johnson, who was among the legislators, reportedly asked how many allies had been invited to join with the U.S. Because of the shortage of...
Born in Paris, reared in New York and Boston, and by his mid-20s a veteran of diplomatic service in World War I Europe, Christian Herter was equipped as few other statesmen to revivify the crumbling Atlantic Alliance. Yet when he succeeded John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in...