ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040133-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 133
• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Allen W.IleS
to protect,. tt e" nationa,~ W .,_. .. , y;
tiorts," as he'dryly put it, "can belp mightily
,classification will long make' unmeasurable,
he and, his agents and analysts went"out and
got, that igfornration. "Intelligence opera-.
were up to. To an extent that security
various parts of. the world.
Yet it was not so much an inconsistency"
'as the CIA's many unfriendly observers liked
to think." To some extent, a, theologica3
-descendant of John Knox could always be-
hold the devil, alive and up to his malign.,
tricks, innations infected with communism.,:
.Penetrating the Communist apparatuses,
thwarting the Communist endeavors' was.
manifestly a central theme of Allen.Dulles's
long'.and valuable CIA careg,
If., on the death ni" t r , CIA's most c;ie-
braced ,director so'far, analysis of his pur?';
poses thus tends-to reach out for large and
cloudy expressions and the balance, of his?
:success and failure is obscure, proportion can
be restored by. focusing instead on the full,
and deservedly famous, family group of the
Fosters, Dulleses and Lansings as described
by Allen Dulles himself in autobiographical'
passages in his book, "The Craft of Intelli-
gence." At work or at leisure, older genera-
tion and younger, they thought, talked and
wrote about the world's public affairs. Amus-
ing, now, to think of Allen W. Dulles as au-
thor
of a Washington bestseller defending' t
the Doers, when he was 8 years old; but also
-significant,
Alen" Dulles's ultimate goal, in OSS and :
later in CIA, was simply the information,
accurate and timely, that this nation needed
for an understanding of what other nations.
I ow can a man with a stern Presbyterian
upbringing and outlook operate in the amoral
world of govcrtimental intelligence services,
where men's souls are bought and their
minds burglarized? This seeming logical con-
tradiction was a,stcady comfort jo, Allen W.
1ulles's critics-picking up where they had
left off . with his older brother Foster, .whose:
moralizing. 'and ethicizing as Secretary of
State were equated only by the deviousness
and cold-bloodedness of his power plays ifit
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