LETTER TO ALLEN W. DULLES FROM C. A. WILLOUGHBY

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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 6, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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Allen W Dulles
The Director C.I.A.
June 6/56
After a distrubing interregnum of 11 house moving " ,
I am now catching up with my reading and icy correspon-
Cenc e.
I have just seen the :ay 25th issue of " U.S.
News W' World Report" - a suparior issue, in my opinion,
which is enhanced by a reprint of your significant ad-
dress at a dinner o: the " U. of Penna. Law Review ?.
Considerign your rare appearance in print
this is an outstandng essay, in every respect, in lit-
erary style which is hard to maintain with such a subject
and in power o" thesis and argument. I agree with your
ideas in every particular. ..his important article
will not only contribute to the prestige of C.I.A. but it
ought to clarify and balance the utter con'usion of
parallel articles now written, on the Soviet enigma, by
every armchair strategist and dry-martini co::mentator
in the country.
I a.. now established in my new residence, in
Washington, and you are naturally welcome. With >ind
personal regards
.602 Mass Ave N W
Washington 7, D.C.
Tel rM: 2-9.71
Sincerely
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3larr ~enera~ekarfes tel. 2/ ouy~bPy
1r Allen W Dulles
The Director C.I.A.
Washington 25 D C
Dec 355
/ If there is a single item that I missed
since following i?:acArthur into political exile, it is the
absence of clerical help and the sad compulsion to do my
own typing, which delays my correspondeene, though I do
cover the more important letters eventually.
This is in r3ply to yours of Nov. 20th.
I will be in Washington over the holidays to visit the
Sebalds. I will then cover the Speidel-Tempehoff conversa-
tions. I am m6ving to Washington, for no particular reason
and I am buildin^ a house at 3602 i?assachusets Ave, next to
the Sebalds, primarily because I am suddenly tired of New
York - ghetto of the gentiles '.
Under separate cover, I have Sent you a
copy of Karl May's " In the Desert" . It is not important.
Pure escapist literature - except that as a reluctant
publisher, it gives me greater scope, for many things ( if
I want to do them),a complet emancipation frDm the the cabal
of leftist publishers and book-reviewers, who are very efficient
(especially in New York) to kill or emasculate what they do
not like. - It also provides me with what we know
fraternally as " cover". I ma reasonably well (and plausibly)
known ,in Spain and Germany, now as a writer and"publisher:
You might keep that in mind. I have some odd invitations -
for example, some w_~e!cs ago, before the collapse of Perbn ,
the Argentine Attache thought 1 might come down there. These
people are afraid of the average reporter- but feel at home
with an ex-military. A similar feeler went out from Venezuela.
I knew the present regime, when they were younger, in my tour as
Pail Attache' in Venezuela, in 1923-1925. As a student of Boli-
var's camapign of Boyaca, I traced his it;neray overland in one
of the very few transcontinental journeys, by_landj_ made in
this Century. A propos, Alexander Humboldt was a very shrewd
observer . The An Oil Cos might have spotted the Maracaibo
seepages , if they had read his " Reisen im Aequinoctial Sid
America". I carried an early edition in my sad.le bags. -
Anywgy, I discovered one of the few Bolivarian portraits
of the epoch, wren he wintered in Pasto, in the Cordillera.
I had the good sense to donate the portrait to the Foreign
Office. It hangs there to day, in the despacho del MMiinistro
de Asuntos Exteriores. - A friend , from those days, who was
then the Ecuadorian Iviinister V H ihscala is a big shot in the
newspaper field and thinks a visit, reminiscing of the
daus of 1926 and noting developments in 19.56 might become
a sensation contribution ( provided of course that it is
laudatory to the r&gime ? )
(over )
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I imagine that I am restless and seek outlets
for my energies . Since my peculiar talents are not
employable in your outfit ( which I deplore and consider
just a hit silly),I must do something else. I sometimes
wonder, if this reluctance is tracable to the hatreds or
prejudice engendered by lkacArthur, whom I naturally defended
as I would any man , whom I work for. Sometimes, I must
ask my friend Jerry Pearsons about that. We correspond on
odds and ends .....
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