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Established in 1947, CIA was assigned by Congress to correlate and evaluate raw intelligence data gathered by various military intelligence departments and to advise the National Security Council on such matters. It was also given the responsibility of engaging in and performing such "additional services"-e.g., espionage, sabotage-as the...
Much of Dulles' operation is routine and even tedious. A large part of intelligence gathering consists of reading technical publications, monitoring radar and radio, interviewing travelers and refugees. With this material, and from military intelligence as well as from CIA's own cloak-and-dagger specialists, the agency...
In many ways Allen Dulles, 68, is an unlikely sort of man to head CIA. The amiable, scholarly younger brother of John Foster Dulles, Allen got his Phi Beta Kappa key at Princeton, taught for a year in India, joined the Foreign Service in 1916. He was in Switzerland when...
During World War II, he joined the OSS, helped nail the famous Nazi spy, "Cicero" (who was memorialized in the movie Five Fingers). In 1950 "Beedle" Smith called Dulles to Washington for what was supposed to be a six-months' tour of duty. He never left.
Though Dulles, more than his predecessors, has allowed himself to become a public figure, most of the agency's exploits are actually a matter of hearsay. Despite expected denials, CIA was chiefly responsible for toppling Jacobo Arbenz' Red regime in Guatemala in 1954, and privately takes credit for...