Word: dulleses
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To Allen Welsh Dulles, who died at 75 of pneumonia in a Washington hospital last week, the gathering and interpretation of intelligence was vital to American survival in a threatening world. He modestly described his risky, arcane calling as a "craft" but pursued it with an unrelenting enthusiasm and expertise...
Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy offered Davies a chance to resign, though nine security hearings produced no evidence that he was disloyal. Davies replied: "I guess you'll have to fire me." In November 1954, John Foster Dulles did just that, charging Davies with "lack of judgment...
In retrospect, Davies shows no bitterness. He recalls with astonishment that after firing him Dulles telephoned to offer the use of his name as a reference. "What could I say?" asks Davies. "It was so bizarre." As Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting...
(3 of 10) of previous involvement in diplomacy-several German papers referred to him as an unbeschrie-benes Blatt (blank page)-is not a drawback as far as Nixon is concerned. He intends to be his own policymaker in foreign affairs; most Presidents are. Nixon has often called diplomacy his...
Abel is a good advertisement. For nine years he ran a network of KGB spies in the U.S. so skillfully that, when he was finally caught, CIA Director Allen Dulles wistfully observed: "I wish we had three or four like him inside Moscow right now." Abel kept in constant touch...