MR. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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wiams, kow those with ftawm and expswleaae, and
way we
do uis
have. I've qm* over
. csu of Wis. I d it each year. and I have a
fealfag that this year we have roaoh*d a 40p" of OOMPSUMIGO t'
exceeds that of any fad' Y OW- That amobt to be so. We a to
got better each year, and I W" we have sum in that. The lot
s we do,
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.dies and gentlemen. no scripts, no Pis. nonericks, no
recitations, no ladies night, you lovely things, for two reasos? One*
the are no script writers who have time to devote to this sort of thing
this year, and I haven't. and I find that even the court jester needs to
make some preparation. The second reason is that I think last year we
forgot the real purpose of this meeting. The deco rations, those things
behind the portieres are part of the Christmas party, but from now until
five o'clock we have our annual OTR meeting. It's a meeting at which
,we hope to review what we have done in the past year toward doing it
better in 1 Those who will speak to you will, I hope, guide us in
rust that incise. Colonel %White's staff went through an exercise
recently, which was to come up with a piece of paper, each one of us,
with what we wanted the Director to talk about at his monthly staff
meetings and on those occasion;, when he met with the DD/to' Staff.
were told specifically not to put down, ' %, all, we just like to hear
what he has to say. ` `o%,, e had to be specific about having him talk on
, [that. 11, tt t was the DD/S exercise, but as far as the
bare to see and hear + r. Dulles.
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corps is one of the most thrilling in the Agency. It`s from there that we
will build up, I hope, our future Directors and Deputy Directors, the
heads of sons and divisions. I have a chance to meet with them at
least once a Yom, and I hope it will be more often, and I can assure you
that 1955 is not going to get by, even the first half of it, without my
have been developing too, in the office of !raining, along modem
sometimes in the past we thought it was enough to have a good
lines. We have to be modern. V e have to give a bow to science, technology,
and all of the gadgets that make us more efficient. Of course, I think
and didn't realize that the marervmplicated the gadget, the more apt
must be the person that operates the gadget. I feel it's gotten way beyond
me now. I push a button occasionally and something I hope will come out
if somebody hasn't turned it off at the other end, which I find sometimes.happens ,
somewhat to my embarrassment recently, and I thought the jewels that
fell out of other mouths were all being carefully taken down but somebody
had tVtAtd thg switch somewhere else. But that doesn't happen often.
But we do require these techniques, The machine Can't do It alcene. It
takes the men, the women, that know how to run the machine, and the
more Sophisticated the machine gets, the more sophisticated must we be
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that.
th the age of scions. Out I don't want, in sayiM
to keep up w wed ,~gnnnY- We must be
to indicate that we should become a meahant
For the future, as in the past, we will need the
a very hum&'- A9un'~ ? suggested that, Maybe
human agent. Cicc $~~' in my s chss live we are getting a Litt out of the Diets Harl a
unf~ , lly trua-. The final payoff
into the we of science, but that 16 only F~
and will 0Ome, in the future as in the Past, from the
is going to come ingenious case officer
well-tca-invd+ highly"~' agent, from the able.
the agent and then how to see that the agent
who knows how to select
That we shall
t out of the s`F~ties that he has.
mos
akeS me
el and continua to stress , and in that work training is
continue to dev of
in ingenuity and resourcefulness is a vital, important
vital and training are doing
Pat And then I think we must also emphasize, I know you
it, the vital importance of training that Wings us to under r stand other
n I left college a good many Years ago, and I won't tall
People . When
a'--
an . I started out by te.king a Job teaching in India and
you how HaY
way around the world teaching. When I made enough teaching
worked my Y r .,e&
ll
y
ice I'd go on and teach in another place until fina
in one F
t ob and in China. It was Invaluable
aro"d, mastl
was in the days before the eirplan~- and it took me
experience. That Wit, but I think
while took mu almost two Yeats to make the cir
quite a as
vital isx
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tim? I ~rno~w I did, lid t
I learned at that ?
}e with whom I was living ? In fact, whorl
understanding the P
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teaching in India I did learn the language. It's not difficult then
fartutely. It's not one of the high-price language
It's one of the medium-price languages- I learned lin
well. In the middle of the year I was approached by a group of Indian
students and asked whether I wouldn't lead a revolution against the
paritish Empire. I thought that I was hardly qualified to do that and
suggested they'd better stick to their studies for a bit and time would
probably work out their problems, as it did. But I've never forgotten
the experience that I learned then and learned later when I wasn.'t quite
so successful. In 1 1 7 , I've told this story I think before, but maybe
not to you, I hope not, when I was in the American legation in Switzerland,
I was asked one day early in the year, I've forgotten exactly when it was,
must have been around March of 1517, I had a tennis date. But someone
came to rte and said they were going down to Montreux on the Take of
Geneva and there was a funny, long-haired man down there that had a
new theory that he was propounding and that he was quite ready to tell
to anybody who wanted to listen to him. I said well, I had a pretty
good tennis date and I thought I'd play tennis. The man I didn't see was
Lenin, and Lenin, a few weeks after that, was put in the sealed train, one
Of the cleverest p3yChologic4 operations that was ever pulled off by an
gonce service, the Germans did it. and he Was put on a train and
sent through Germany up to Finland and from Finland into Moscow and he
was there in time to lead the November revolution. Since that time I've
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lot of queer people. Sometimes in the office they tell me, "You
haven't got time to see that person. " Well, if he's a queer' one, I'm
going to see him. He's got something now or novel. I find it takes a
,lot of time and I don't necessarily recommend it to you all to see everybody.
You've got to be a little choosy here and there. but just don't neglect to
make contacts that may be a little out of the ordinary but which may turn
out to be extraordinary. Since that experience I've learned my lesson,
and I have tried to develop by making as many contacts as possible. I
have to be quite careful in telling that stay. I was up speaking before
the overseas writers in a very informal group. It was a group talking on
Russia and my co-speakers were Irving Don Levine and people of that
kind who knew Russia pretty well. I told this story, but I put my lark
of meeting with Lenin I remember in August of 1917. A few days later
tary brought in to me with some surprise on her face a letter,
type-written letter, but signed Lenin, and thought this was rather extra-
ordinary that Lenin should be writing me. It happened to be a damsel
who was present at this gathering and writing as Lenin she said, IT
did me wrong and you are going to get me in trouble with my wife, because
I told my wife I was in Finland in August 1 18, not in Switzerland. " I
t it UP, She was right and I was wrong. Lenin }eft
Switzerland in April 1517, excuse me, 1 1Z not '18, so I couldn't have
seen him there in August 1 9 1 7. But I know you are paying attention to
those things. It's tremendously important to understand other people.
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W -a have ar...a a book that I d &t like Vim' m l
rim. in fact, I've read about f+ ar five chapters of It. I We
the authac is not here today. I t htak he's not a member Of the training
wouldn't have written the book if he had been. I didn't like
the book very much so I haven't read it all, but there is some little truth
in it. There are too many of us, I don't say of us speaking of you, but
goad
too many Americans have been too apt to conduct themselves/in a way
at times and not show a proper understanding of the customs and mares,
religion and habits of other people. And as you go abroad, as many of
just recommend that to you. Try to learn all you can. and
you are getting a good advance knowledge here of other people.
That, of course, brings me to one of my favorite subjects, the
question of language training. `v a have been pioneers, I feed, in that
and I was later than I should have been because I found I
k, and just before I was leaving, in fact one reason why
got beyond the four o'clock hour and found I had to go all around Washington
to get here instead of coming the straight and narrow path. Just as I was
leaving
and Welt-we, fir. Flemming, a great personal friend
came in and brought me a letter and said, "Here's
your speech. It was a letter front the Secretary of Health, Education
read this or not. Does it turn on? I don't need it. I can read it without
it. The light looks a little purple. No, that's all right. Don't bother.
this Agency. I haven't got any light here so I don't know whether
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December 17. It was most thoughtful of you to send me a mnd
the Camel Intelligence AAency's Language Development ham - I
have read this with great Interest and congra
ss you have made since #ektcus y W57. N
have, but this goes to other people sitting around here.
of a meaningful incentive system was a brilliant idea which I hi
credit
be initiated eventually by other agencies. Sure of their interest, I have
forwarded your memorandum to those specialists in the Office of Education
who a moat concerned with the foreign language aspects of Public Law
85-864. As you know, one of the explicit purposes Of the National
Defense Education Act of 1 5a is to serve the needs of Government.
Our specialists have interpreted the intentions of the Congress as
esent but also future needs. Obviously in the
future needs the close cooperation between the Office of
Education and the Central Intelligence Agency is indispensable. It is
reassuring, theref
you have already seen fit to take the first
p. There's another paragraph here not so interesting, and Matt, I
give that letter to you to answer.
This is about the time when Red White and I and many others,
pUU1y Caber % haw been wrest with the budget. It's always
good to get that out of the way by Christmas and I hope that the first
d us, more coming up as we deal with the Congress.
on the
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We've had to take a bit of a cut, not over last year but over what we
r "11v nod, what we ht we needed. It r i meal that will
probably have to do mom and do better with fewer peon. I think we
can do it. I don't mean that any drastic cut is to be Initiated at that
any of you need have any worries on that scare, I hope. I don't believe
so. I think I am going to cut off the old codgers like myself rather than
the young people. I think we're going to have to start at the top. I
don't know that there are many older ones around here. A few have white
hair on the front ranks, but youth will have its day. But in any event
to cut our r
t,
, and also by cutting to make way for the more ra
ithough it is quite rapid now,
promotion of those who
come in and make this a career. I was very heartened yesterday. We
had a visit from Senator Humphrey, who told us of his marathon talk with
dir. Krushchev. Before he started it, he remarked on the fact that he had
seen our representatives in various parts of Europe and he wanted to tell
us that he was greatly impressed with the training that these people had
had, the wway they conducted themselves, their competence and efficiency
in going about their tasks. Now this year quite a number of the leading
e l c of the Ci s s have been taking # in connection with their trips,
have been taking the time to spend a lot of time talking to oar people,
and I have been encouraging that. I have had frcnn several other Congressional
loaders who have recently corns back, I have had the s
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remarks, which has been most gratifying and I can't tell you how much
that is going to help when we start the next hurdle of getting ow budget
awed by the Congress.
as to the general problems as we look ahead -- we live in a
troubled world and we're probably going to continue to live in me.
world of challenge, it's a world where it is a peouticular challenge for
As I've mentioned to you before in these, as I appear
before you annually, there's hardly a day that we do not have passed
on to us some new and difficult assignment to cope with the
that are presented because we are faced in the world with the technique
of communism and the great power, military and subversive, technical
and other of the international Communist movement. A great share of
our work goes into developing
ques and the training to deal
with that particular threat. Matt, I hope maybe aornetir in the future
able to have as extensive training courses as they have. At
the present time they take a lot longer to do what we try to do in, what
is it, forty-eight weeks. I imagine that they would give twice or three
times as much time to training as we do. I frankly think that we are
they are and I think we on do it in less and will do it in
less. I don't see any real reason to be discouraged as we look around
the world. I have a feeling that what Krushchev has done about Berlin
sense, has been done from a little bit of frustration in view of
his lack of progress in western Europe where there has
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of the free world. With the situation in France when
the Communist Party has been, as far as its representation in the
Italy
a fraction, to ten from ISO. In
,unist Parties have been reduced to positions of political
s been reel progress made. In the rest of western Europe
impotence , although underground they still he ve subversive strength.
When we look to other parts of the world we do see disturbing signs.
can't expect, and should not have expected, that all the new
countries of the world could put into effect our type of d
republican government, a government whereby the people had a full
voice in the selection of their leaders and whereby the, and wherein
the party that was defeated accepted the role of the loyal opposition.
That will come. That will require education. .eve have had many military
dictators who have taken over. Those military governments have not,
for the most part, been pro-Communist. They've been anti-Communist
and been put in to help meet the Communist menace.
o through
changes and developments of that kind, but they are not all discouraging.
They are part of a new and evolving world. Never in the past history hav
so many countries been born as there have been in the last few years and
Aattrally th it rly childhood is roingo be a turbulent and a troublesome
one. B.
k more and more throughout the world there Is growing a
knowledge of what communism means, and I was quite encouraged by the
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s I had this morning, a round-up on what happened in the Amts
conference where they had representatives of several score of fee states,
of colonial areas, representatives of colonial areas, not official repre tativse
but unofficial, who met there and who,, by and large, despite all the
tions of dex gogt , who by and large produced a rea.sona
mode to resolutions and who seemed to have an ur standing of the
world problems far better than I would have expected.
A , oll, if I kept on talking about what's going on in the world, I'm
afraid I would keep you from other festivities much more important than
listening to me, but I wanted to thank you for your great contribution,
expMas again my sincere faith in the training systems that we are
developing and that we are going to improve year by year, and look forward
to cooperating with you in the year, and years I hope, to come, in the
common enterprise. Thank you very much.
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