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Recognizing that the Rio Pact and the OAS Charter, with their focus on "armed attack" and "aggression," could not cope with Communist subversion in Latin America, an American conference in Caracas in 1954, under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, voted to broaden the concept of...
Cause to Howl. Pundit Lippmann's cup of wormwood spilled over: "President Kennedy is in grave trouble. If, after the appalling mistake of judgment in the Cuban venture, he allows himself to be sucked into the quicksands of Laos, he will have compromised, perhaps irrevocably, his influence on events...
What Bobby's official post is going to be is still undecided. The President has offered him the job of heading the CIA, but Bobby has balked at that. He feels that the post is too sensitive for a President to assign to his brother, and that the appointment...
Allen Dulles, head of CIA: down in an ambiguous way. His standing as an intelligence chief inevitably dropped, but his standing as a man went up because he did not try to shift blame from himself (in the Eisenhower Administration, Allen Dulles also had offered himself up as a political...
In the rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted...