Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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His courtly yet convivial manner evoked the style of an old-fashioned prep-school headmaster, but Dulles was above all the man who professionalized the intelligence service of the U.S. Before him, American espionage had been at best the work of skillful amateurs whom their countrymen sometimes disdained as unsporting...
He was absorbed by the personal element of intelligence gathering. He often told his juniors of the time that "an insignificant little man" sought out someone in authority at the U.S. consulate in Bern, where Dulles was a minor official toward the end of World War I.
"I was dressed for tennis," Dulles recalled, "and I had no time for him." The man, it turned out, was Lenin, and the interview that did not take place might have changed history.
Early Surrender. Dulles did change history when he returned to Bern in 1942 as OSS chief in Switzerland. A contact known pseudonymously as George Wood, in the German Foreign Office, sent him more than 2,000 documents from Berlin. Dulles kept in touch with the ring of German officers who...
Dulles' greatest achievement in World War II was the negotiation of an early surrender of German troops in Italy, which he arranged through a secret meeting with the SS commanding general in a Swiss villa. That act doubtless saved thousands of American lives. It also infuriated Stalin, who did...