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Kissinger has a long record of pronouncements on nuclear issues; it was in this field that he first made his name. Yet his work has at times been open to varying interpretations. In his first major book, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, he said that limited nuclear war was containable...
Dulles presided over two major disasters during his tenure as director. One was the Russian capture of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, which enabled Nikita Khrushchev to gain a propaganda victory over the U.S. (since then, a system of spy satellites initiated under Dulles has much surpassed the U-2s...
The CIA became involved with causes aimed directly at countering Communist propaganda, like Radio Free Europe. There were more intellectual ventures, among them an open $300,000 grant to the M.I.T. Center for International Studies. The agency also helped finance the National Student Association for just over 15 years, until...
At the austere CIA headquarters, a bas-relief plaque with Allen Dulles' likeness bears the inscription: "His Monument Is Around Us." It has been 40 years since Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the only U.S. code-breaking operation then in existence with the scornful remark, "Gentlemen do not...
Died. Allen Dulles, 75, former director of the CIA (seeTHE NATION).