ALLEN DULLES: HIS WORK WAS VALUABLE TO U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040093-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: February 6, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Was Valuable To U. S.
When his agency made a blooper,
and in the nature of thins it ~ could:
not help but make them on' occasion,;
chances were, good that the would?
Would hear, about it, as happened in
1960 after the ill-fated flight of the3
U-2 over the Soviet Union, and again;
in 1961, when the ." ,~;, e( up the;.
Bay of Pigs operation.
But the agency's successes and;
here were many along the way, thel
several years of invaluable U-2 flights;,
over the Soviet Union befozp.1960 be-.
rig one of them had to be kept,
ecret.
Indeed, the success of an intelli>
once operation can be measured in'
art by the success with which it is~
spyrn a s t e r-in-chief.
, me urbane,, g're-i
garious head of the United States Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency from 1953 to
1.961, labored under that inescapable
occupational hazard as American;
Dulles, who died the other day at`
5, looked the part of a spymaster,!
weedy, pipe-smoking, professorial,;
and he played the part, with pa-:,
riotism, dignity and an enthusiasm':;
hick brought him the loyalty of his`'
ubordinates and should bring him the`,
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