THE MYSTERIOUS DOINGS OF CIA

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Dr. Hans Gisevius, former anti-Nazi double-agent, meets with CIA boss Dulles to recall the roles they played in the 1944 plot against Hitler's life
AMERICA'S SECRET AGENTS:
The Mysterious Doings of CIA
By RICHARD and GLADYS HARKNESS
There are few men more feared by the Reds than Allen Dulles, boss
of our Central Intelligence Agency. Here, in an exclusive Post re-
port are some of the strange adventures of America's "Master Spy."
C ONCLUSION
ERE is nothing in the relaxed composure
of Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, as he sits in the pri-
vacy of his library at home, to indicate his
concern with spies, saboteurs and sleuths. A tall, vig-
orous man of athletic build, clad in conservative
clothes, he sinks into an easy chair and puffs his pipe
with the airy manner of one who has no more devi-
ous schemes in mind than to beat his best friend at
a round of golf. He has sparse gray hair, a high fore-
head, blue eyes, a cropped mustache vaguely remi-
niscent of Teddy Roosevelt's, an open countenance
Dulles' easy air of dignity and authority is that of
a man of sixty-one who enjoys the pace he has set
for his late middle age. His booming laugh fills the
room as he explains the odd clay pipe on his desk. It
is an opium pipe which he claimed as a souvenir of a
raid he and fellow students made on an opium den
in China while touring the Far East.
"Master spy" is the accolade Dulles' confeder-
ates apply to him. His disarming smile and guileless
manner belie the words. But as his career is traced
over the last four decades, a picture develops of a
tough-minded, hardheaded, steel spring of a man
and a benign smile. The bookshelves which reach to withAn apti -"and zest for matching wits with an
the ceiling are lined with thick volumes of world ufiseen foe, tet World War -IL.Dulles received the
bistojy,, economics internaticmal banking and law. Medal for Merit, the highest award our Government
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President Truman, for his exploits as an OSS agent
operating in Bern from 1942 through 1946:
Mr. Dulles, within a year, effectively built up an intelli-
gence network employing hundreds of informants and opera-
tives reaching into Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Portugal and North Africa. . . .
Particularly notable achievements by Mr. Dulles were his
first reports, as early as May, 1943, of the existence of a
German experimental laboratory at Peenerniinde for the test-
ing of a rocket bomb, his report on the flooding of the Belgian
and Dutch coastal areas long before similar information came
from other sources, his report on the rocket installations over
the Pas de Calais, and his reports on damage inflicted by the
Allied Air Force as a result of raids on-Berlin and other Ger-
man, Italian and Balkan cities, which were forwarded within
two or three days of the operations. .
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es was made an Officer of
the Legion of Honor by France; was
awarded the Order of S. S. Maurizio e
Lazzaro by Italy; and the Cross of
Officer of the Order of Leopold by Bel-
gium. The War Department awarded
Dulles the Medal of Freedom, and he
was generally credited with shortening
the war through his clandestine nego-
tiations leading to the surrender of
German troops in Italy. But he treas-
ures, above his medals and ribbons, a
cablegram from an old-line Army gen-
eral, a veteran of the G-2 branch of the
service, which had bitterly fought the
entrance of civilians into intelligence.
The message read: " Countless parents,
if they were privileged to know what
you have done, would bless you. I have
a son in the 10th Mountain Division,
and I know what you have done. I do
bless you."
Since these World War II experi-
ences amounted to an education in in-
telligence by the case method, it was
only natural that Dulles should suc-
ceed Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as di-
rector of CIA when Smith became Un-
der Secretary of State. He was slated
for the post whether the Democrats
or Republicans won the 1952 election.
His life-long background would seem to
be preparation for this one assignment.
His father, the Rev. Allen Macy
Dulles, was pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Watertown, in upstate New
York. The Dulles family, including two
sons and three daughters, was a lusty,
uninhibited clan. After services on Sun-
day, the group would march home,
singing hymns at the tops of their
voices. It was the scholarly bent of
their preacher father and the lessons in
self-discipline from their strong-willed
mother, Edith Foster Dulles, which
pointed Allen and John Foster toward
careers in Washington.
The tradition of public service al-
ready was strong in the Dulles strain.
The boys' maternal grandfather was
John Watson Foster, Secretary of State
under President Benjamin Harrison;
and an uncle by marriage, Robert Lan-
sing, succeeded William Jennings Bryan
as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of
Woodrow Wilson.
Grandfather Foster, who had no
sons of his own, insisted that Allen and
Foster visit him frequently in Wash-
ington. Gathered around the dinner
table, the boys listened as Secretary
Foster and Lansing argued the rights
and wrongs of the British and Boer po-
sitions in the Boer War. Allen, who was
eight at the time, decided that the Brit-
ish were to blame for the conflict. So
he wrote a book upholding the Boer
cause ?a book his doting grandfather
had published, juvenile expressions,
misspellings, errors in grammar, and all.
The youthful partisan engaged in no
diplomatic double talk in describing the
sufferings of the Boer women and chil-
dren in the African concentration camps
and the destitution of Boer prisoners in
Bermuda. "England goes around fight-
ing all the little countries," he scrawled.
"But she nevei?dEu-es to fight either
China or Russia. All the people that
have their independence should like to
see the Boers win for'England is trying
to take it from the Boers. I hope the
Boers will win for the Boers are in the
wright and the British are in the wrong
in the war." The book rated coverage
by The New York Times, sold several
kept Dulles informed of each develop- thousand copies, raised near! $1000
ment in the several plots against Hie' fo f 'years
ler's life?even to the lace and-the att
a bride.
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Behind that dry, matter-of-fact lan-
guage lies a series of real-life tales of
espionage no fiction could equal. Bern
was the center of wartime intrigue, a
neutral city infested by agents and se-
cret couriers of every hostile nation,
who used the most elaborate deceits to
cross and recross the borders of Ger-
many, France, Italy and the Balkans.
Traitors with secrets to sell for gold,
incognito emissaries with schemes to
undermine their own governments,
spies and counterspies stalked one an-
other to out-of-the-way parks, secluded
caf?or apartment hide-outs.
Dulles operated, in Bern, from an
apartment in a house dating back to
the fifteenth century. A clanking door
opened onto a medieval courtyard
overlooking the Aar River. The neatly
engraved card above the knocker iden-
tified the occupant as: ALLEN W.
DULLES, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE
UNITED STATES MINISTER.
To Dulles' unsuspecting friends who
accepted that diplomatic cover, he was
referred to, jokingly, as Cinderella.
Dulles left evening social functions
early in order to be in his apartment at
eleven, when he held nightly telephone
conversations with Washington. Then
his day had only begun.
Late one night Dulles had a rendez-
vous with a man known only as George
Wood. George was, in fact, an employee
in the German Foreign Office in Berlin.
During the next two years George di-
rected a flow of copies of more than
2000 Nazi documents across the bor-
der. Microfilms of these papers had
been made inside an operating room at
Berlin's Charite Hospital, which fig-
ured recently in the defection of West
Germany Security Chief Otto John.
Dulles learned, through George, of a
clandestine radio transmitter in the
German Embassy in Dublin used to di-
rect submarine raids on Allied ship-
ping. George disclosed plans to trap a
large American troop convoy about to
sail from New York. There was time
for the Navy to reroute the ships. It
was George who tipped Dulles to the
true identity of the much publicized
enemy spy of World War II ? Cicero,
the Nazi agent who was " valet " to the
British ambassador in Ankara, and
later subject of the movie thriller, Five
Fingers.
Another night, during a blackout in
Zurich, Dulles by prearrangement met
Hans Gisevius. Like Dulles, Gisevius
operated behind a diplomatic disguise,
German vice-consul in Zurich. He was,
in reality, a member of Hitler's coun-
terintelligence service, Abwehr. But
his true role, Gisevius told Dulles, was
anti-Nazi double-agent ? a leader in the
conspiracy to assassinate Der Fiihrer.
If Dulles had reason to doubt one
who admitted such double-dealing,
his suspicions were soon removed.
Gisevius produced confidential Abwehr
transcripts recording Dulles' commu-
nications to Washington ?proof that
Nazi counteragents had broken an OSS
code. But news of "Breakers" ? the
name Dulles used to identify the anti-
Hitler plot in his messages to head-
quarters?was safe. Dulles had em-
ployed another cryptographic system
to transmit that information. Gisevius
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Thousand Islands, Allen said to his
mother, "I've met the most wonderful
girl. Her name is Clover Todd. I'm not
cs.tre yet whether she will marry me." A
turn trip the next week produced
,,liss Todd's assent, so the young suitor
went to New York to ask her father, a
professor at Columbia University, for
his daughter's hand.
"Who is this Allen Dulles?" the pro-
fessor demanded. True to his profes-
sion, he rushed to the card catalogue of
the university library to see if this un-
known had ever written a book or
treatise. There it was: DULLES, ALLEN
W. ? THE BOER WAR. The couple be-
came officially engaged, and married
three months later.
By that time Allen had received his
education, and was on his way to a
career in intelligence. After attending
the Ecole Alsacienne in Paris, he had
gone to Princeton, where he received
his B.A. degree with a Phi Beta Kappa
key in 1914. He traveled in the Far
East, teaching one term for $500 at a
missionary school in Allahabad, India,
before returning to Princeton for his
M.A.
Dulles decided to follow his grand-
father and uncle in diplomacy. His first
Foreign Service post was Vienna. Dis-
sident Austrian forces were attempting
to upset their country's entente with
Germany, and Dulles' assignment was
to make contact with the antigovern-
ent leaders. But when war broke out
Atli Austria on the German side, the
young diplomat . was transferred to
Switzerland to gather political intelli-
gence from Southeastern Europe.
There, Dulles learned a lesson he has
not forgotten. He was invited to meet
a peculiar-looking journalist, a man
with a spade beard whose unconven-
tional political beliefs were becoming
the subject of talk and derision. Dulles
declined on advice of his superiors, who
said that he would be wasting his time.
He discovered too late that the "char-
acter" was Nikolai Lenin, who was off
to Russia by then for the revolution.
Dulles has had a general rule ever since
of seeing as many as possible of those
who ask to see him. His callers are dis-
tributed in small offices in CIA head-
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one to another in the manner of a busy
dentist. "You never know," he explains,
"when or where lightning will strike."
After Switzerland, assignments took
Dulles to Paris, Berlin and Constanti-
nople, and back to Washington, where
he became chief of the State Depart-
ment's Division of Near Eastern Affairs
at the age of twenty-nine. Busy as he
was in that post, he was a delegate to
the Arms Traffic and Preparatory
Disarmament conferences in Geneva,
and managed, by attending night law
classes at George Washington Univer-
sity, to earn his LL.B. degree in 1926.
The same year the State Department
offered young Dulles the post of coun-
selor to the American legation in Pei-
ping, a promotion in rank, but providing
for no raise in his $8000-a-year salary,
despite the increased entertainment ex-
penditures entailed. Dulles submitted
his resignation from the Foreign Serv-
ice. He had a family now. Besides, he
remembered the counsel of his uncle,
Robert Lansing, "Don't make China
your forte. That problem will not be
solved in your lifetime."
In private life for the first time,
Dulles joined the New York interna-
tional-law firm of Sullivan and Crom-
well, where John Foster Dulles had be-
come a partner. The younger Dulles
not only topped his Government salary
but he broadened his activities in world
affairs. He was legal adviser to the
American delegations to the Three
Power Naval Conference in 1927, and
to the Geneva Disarmament Conference
of 1932 and 1933. He became a direc-
tor, and then president, of the Council
of Foreign Relations.
Even when Dulles tried his hand at
politics, unsuccessful as his efforts were,
he made personal contacts which proved
valuable in his intelligence work later.
He lost his race for a place on the Re-
publican congressional ticket in 1938,
but his work among naturali7ed citi-
zens in support of Willkie for President
in 1940 gave him a wide acquaintance
among Russian, Polish, Czech and
other foreign-born Americans. That
knowledge proved immensely helpful
when agents with an intimate knowl-
edge of their homelands were needed.
These days, concentrating on cold-
war techniques to employ against those
of the communists, Dulles spends from
eight A.M. until six P.M. in his office. His
full working day extends until late into
the night. More often than not, during
the evening, he receives callers at his
home. On such occasions, Dulles may
telephone his wife, "Two men will ar-
rive at 6:30. Receive them, will you,
please? I will be delayed." Receive
them she does, with no idea as to their
names or the purpose of their visit.
The Dulles home, Highlands, an
eight-acre estate, is leased from the
widow of Admiral Cary Grayson, per-
sonal physician to President Wilson.
One of Washington's landmarks* was
built in 1815. Its tall, vine-covered col-
umns front on Wisconsin Avenue, one
of the capital's busiest streets, but the
stone house is hidden from public view
by tall trees and massive shrubs. To the
rear, a series of terraces stretches down
to an extensive maze of boxwood. The
house and gardens are encircled by
woods, dark and deep, where wild rab-
bits scamper and owls hoot.
It is there, after he has read the
voluminous reports which have poured
into CIA from all parts of the world
during the day, that Dulles likes to
stroll at night, puffing a final pipeful of
tobacco before bed. After just one tour
of inspection of the property last spring,
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out the underbrush and shrubbery.
Mrs. Dulles met the foreman at the
door with a gentle suggestion, "Let's
wait until the shrubs have bloomed,
shall we?" The workmen are waiting
still.
Mrs. Dulles, who Oears the first name
of Clover after her granduncle, Peter
Lewis Clover, an artist, is a tall, slender
woman of great charm. She is respon-
sive to the daily drama surrounding
her, and senses when her whimsical hu-
mor can ease the strain of her hus-
band's responsibilities. If an attack of
gout causes him sleepless nights, she
attributes it to his high-living fore-
bears, and recalls the frequent "P. and
M." entries in the diary of his mission-
ary-grandfather. Not until years later
did the family discover that "P. and
M." comprised the old gentleman's se-
cret code for a nip of "Port and
Madeira."
The Dulleses appear frequently at
the swank but crowded official recep-
tions given at foreign embassies for vis-
iting distinguished officials. But the
couple have developed a hit-and-run
party technique so Dulles can get home
to begin his round of evening appoint-
ments and hours of reading. The Dulleses
go down the receiving line, lose them-
selves in the crowd and slip through a
side door.
Leaving the Spanish Embassy's mid-
summer reception for the daughter of
Generalissimo Franco, they went
through a pair of Fren da doors into the
walled garden and looked for the exit
onto the street. There was none.
"We're trapped," Dulles said. "Noth-
ing to do but to go back in, stay awhile,
and go down the lire again to say
good-by."
Clover Dulles is not a lady to be
daunted so easily. She measured the
height of the wall. "Dare you," she
said. "Here goes." Passers-by on Wash-
ington's fashionable 16th Street were
surprised to see the director of the CIA
and his wife come clambering over the
Spanish Embassy garden wall.
Dulles is always ready to make a
joke on himself. It is a CIA rule that a
top official on a mission must never
carry his own dispatch case. A CIA
courier, taking an entirely different
route, delivers the dispatch case to the
officer at his final destination.
Before taking off for Europe on a
case he was handling personally, Dulles
dined with old Washington friends and
stayed late to talk. As he was depart-
ing, his hostess came running down the
porch steps.
"Allen," she said, "I've heard all
about how you must guard your papers
with your life. Look what you're leav-
ing!" She handed him his dispatch case.
"You have me," Dulles said rue-
fully. "So I'll let you in on something."
He opened the worn cowhide case. In it
were two day-old New York news-
papers and the soiled shirt he had
changed at the office.
Dulles is never far removed from the
shadowy world of intrigue in which he
has spent so much of his adult life. One
Saturday night the apeses were sit-
ting in the Georgetown garden of an
Army general. Dulles took part in the
conversation, but he seemed more pre-
occupied with his own thoughts.
Suddenly, he blurted, "Look at that!
There it goes again ! " Dulles pointed
to a window across the way where an
exceptionally bright light shone briefly.
In a moment it came on again, and this
time it burned for a slightly longer in-
terval. "Signaling!" Dulles exclaimed.
"Someone is signaling!"
Investigation developed that the
light was coming from an unshaded
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bulb hanging from a ceiling fixture in
the busy bathroom of a house where a
noisy Saturday-night party was going
full tilt.
If colleagues josh Dulles about the
melodrama of that incident, they also
appreciate the necessity for such night-
and-day acuteness on the part of the
man responsible for perfecting and di-
recting a successful American intelli-
gence service. Before CIA, an intelli-
gence fiasco enabled the Japanese to
stage their sneak attack on Pearl Har-
bor. In 1950, when CIA was only three
years old and still struggling to develop
an intelligence-reporting technique, the
communists caught us off guard in
South Korea. But more recently CIA
has been calling the turns in the Far
East. ?
The Intelligence Advisory Commit-
tee predicted in a national estimate fol-
lowing the truce in Korea, that Mao
Tse-tung would direct his next aggres-
telligence system is coming of age. But
the CIA is only seven years old. The
British "silent service" has 300 years
of experience, pride and continuity of
operation. There is an intelligence
"trade" story, probably apocryphal,
of the German who was an undercover
British agent in World War I. When he
died, his son succeeded him. London
heard nothing from her new operative
for twenty-one years. In the summer
of 1939, a message came: "Poland Sep-
tember First." Hitler attacked Po-
land on that day to launch World
War II.
Over CIA, the Russian KGB holds
almost every advantage in the espionage
and counterespionage book. The Iron
Curtain is a real wall?as much as 150
miles deep in some areas?keeping pro-
democratic influence out and Russian
secrets in. Behind this barrier, guarded
by barbed wire, land mines and police
dogs, and patrolled by Red frontier
sion toward Southeastern Asia by sup-
porting the Vietminh in Indochina.
More specifically, American officials
with access to CIA reports became con-
cerned when French Gen. Henri-Eugene
Navarre stationed eighteen French Un-
ion battalions at Dienbienphu with no
route for withdrawing his troops in
event of an engulfing communist at-
tack. Navarre undoubtedly was acting
on the strength of the French-intelli-
gence premise that the communists
would infiltrate the country surround-
ing the jungle fortress, rather than at-
tack the stronghold in force.
CIA warned, however, that a head-on
assault on Dienbienphu was likely. The
agency "paper" estimated that the
charge would be timed with the fixing
of the date,' at the Berlin diplomatic
talks with the Reds, for the Indochinese
peace negotiations to begin at Geneva.
In Korea, our experience had been that
whenever our truce parley with the
communists reached a critical stage at
Panmunjom, the enemy mounted an
offensive at the front in the hope of lay-
ing a fresh military victory on the bar-
gaining table. CIA foresaw the same
Red strategy in Indochina. But its
warning was disregarded. Navarre lost
his entire defense force, and the capture
of Dienbienphu was the communists'
top trump at Geneva.
Such reliable estimates, developed
by CIA on Southeastern Asia and Indo-
china, are evidence that America's in-
Declassified in
troops, the MVD holds a dictatorial
grasp on all Russian subjects.
Every Soviet diplomat and corre-
spondent for Tass, the official Red news
agency, doubles as a communist agent.
Delegations of Russian businessmen,
athletes, chess players or ballet stars
leaving Russian soil on "goodwill mis-
sions" ? accompanied by secret-police
guards?must report all conversations
with noncommunists. The KGB si-
phons information through the cells of
the roughly 25,000 Communist Party
members in the United States. That
gives the Russian spy system an ad-
vantage in size alone. The KGB also
hides behind fronts. There is the World
Peace Council, an appealing name used
by the Reds to institute the phony
Stockholm Peace Petition. The last
" council " meeting was held in Vienna.
The CIA traced the $500,000 spent to
finance the session to the Soviet Mili-
tary Bank in Vienna. Dulles estimates
that the average expenditures of inter-
national communism for false fronts?
with their resultant benefits to Red
espionage?run in the neighborhood of
$2,000,000,000 a year.
Against the Soviet's police-state cen-
sorship, we Americans talk, and write,
and broadcast. One of the most fertile
sources of CIA information is the mea-
ger dribble of Russian scientific, techni-
cal and economic publications from in-
side Russia. But a communist agent
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The New York Times or a dime for a
Wall Street Journal to learn, in the
financial sections, which American in.
dustrial firms have been awarded de
fense contracts for how many weapons
of what type. CIA would happily spenc
millions of dollars for military informa-
tion on Russia corresponding to that
which the Reds pick up at our corner
newsstands for small change.
American security information is vir-
tually thrust into Russian hands, in
some cases, by the United States Gov-
ernment itself. The Senate Subcom-
mittee on Internal Security held a long
and detailed hearing into loyalty alle-
gations against a career Foreign Serv-
ice officer, John Paton Davies. The
issue revolved around Davies' sug-
gestion that certain communists or
party-liners and left-wingers be used by
CIA. The full hearing transcript was
published ?including the testimony of
four witnesses from CIA. Two of the
quartet were valuable covert agents.
In intelligence parlance, the "covers"
were "blown" and the two agents are.
now useless.
Again, the hearing record covering
the special investigation into the loy-
alty of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer was
a rich vein of information for the com-
munists on this country's progress on
the hydrogen bomb. The entire 992-
page document may be obtained by
anyone. A communist spy need onlj ,
address "Superintendent of Documents'
Government Printing Office, Washing.
ton 25, D.C."
To summarize further this report by
two Washington correspondents who
have spent twelve months covering
CIA on assignment by The Saturday
Evening Post, we offer these conclu-
sions:
Give the CIA ten years and our in-
telligence will equal or surpass the Brit-
ish. CIA is better in some areas now.
CIA is not without information from
behind the Iron Curtain and from in-
side Russia, but we are dissatisfied with
the amount we get. On the other hand,
we tell the Russians too much.
Finally, we have found that, on the
whole, qualified observers in Washing-
ton believe that CIA deserves the trust
and confidence of Congress and the
people. The agency has its critics. We
talked to those who claim that CIA
duplicates intelligence research of other
agencies; that while rivalry between
intelligence branches of the armed
forces is decreasing, jealousy between
the military and civilians still poses a
problem to CIA's function as a central
evaluation agency; that CIA is over-
staffed; that CIA intelligence reports
are too voluminous whereas evaluatorf
must learn to choose only the nuggets
that CIA is wasteful.
But intelligence in itself is costly
The business of engaging in espionage
and counterespionage is like wildcat-
ting for oil. A driller digs nine dry wells
in a row, and stockholders accuse him
of pouring money down a hole. But if
the operator hits oil on his tenth ven-
ture, the net result is profit. A helping
hand in the rescue of one country such
as Guatemala or Iran from commu-
nism is worth CIA's annual budget
many times over.
Whether the squeamish like it or not,
the United States must know what
goes on in those dark places of the
world where our overthrow is being
plotted by the communists. If Amer-
ican policy of combating communism
is moral, the procurement of intelli-
gence to carry out that policy is moral
as well.
This is the last of three articles by Richard and