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"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...
Dulles had a major role in writing the 1947 law that set up the CIA, and in 1950, its director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked him to come to Washington to talk over revisions in the agency's structure. "I went to Washington intending to stay six weeks," Dulles remembered...
When it seemed that political advantage could be gained, Dulles sometimes risked operations that he supervised with cheerful confidence. In 1953, the CIA helped to depose Iran's leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, making way for the return of pro-Western Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi from exile in Rome. The...