LETTER TO MR. CHARLES D. HILLES, JR. FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003500100010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. Charles D?
Dear Charlie:
May 1. 1961
Many thanks for your letter about I
should like very much to see him and talk with him.
Frankly, at the moment, as we are endeavoring to build
up a career service. we are not taking on many people in the older
age group, but there are always exceptions, and your friend is a
child compared to me. Also, your friend seems to have very
particular qualifications in many fields of interest to us. I shall
be in touch with him, and thank you for writing.
Sincerely your
,Alen W. Dulles
Director
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May 1, 1961
Charlie Hilles dropped me a line the other day in which
h mentioned that YOU Might be interested in having a talk with me
and some of my associates. It so, I should be very glad at your
convenience to talk with you. I should rather like to do this hers
in Washington, as I got to New York only on very rare, and generally
hurried, occasions,. but if this is not convenient, I could give you a
ring the next time I am in New York.
Charlie re i zne, and I well remeznb.u, our meeting
in 1949 at apartment.
Sincerely yours,
Allen W. Dulles
Director
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INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION
67 BROAD STREET
WILD:-, ju NEW YORK 4. N Y.
April 12, 1961
STAT
STAT
STAT
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
is an old friend and colleague of mine. He graduated from; Harvard
in 1926 and from Columbia Law School in 1929. 1 met him shc,rtly thereafter when
we were both young lawyers at Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine. He re-
malned there until, following Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned in the Navy and serv-
ed on active combat duty throughout the war. Thereafter he joined us here at IT&T
not long after I had also come here, and he has worked faithfully and effectively
pith us ever since, with much of his experience overseas.
Xi how tells me, in confidence, that with his children grown up and a respectable
collection of young grandchildren, he would like to abandon the commercial-legal
life that falls to his lot in a big corporation like this, in favor of the public
aiet'vice. He specifically mentioned your agency as affording interesting, useful
and challenging possibilities, and I said I should be glad to write you. I do so
because he seems to me to have the qualities and attributes that are indispensable
in your agency. Incidentally, he is a member of the Century Association and is a
good friend and sailing companion of Elihu Root, Jr.
I am diffident about writing to you when I know you have so many vital questions
on your mind. On the other hand, I may be doing you a favor by making his avail-
ability known to you. He and I would both understand perfectly if you simply turn-
ed this letter over to your personnel or recruiting associates. It is entirely un-
necessary for you to acknowledge this letter, as far as I am concerned. If you or
your designee should have any interest in communicating with I sug-
gest that it would be appropriate to reach him at f- I
I
'With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely,
STAT
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May 2, 1961
Memo for John C. Hughes:
I am sure you know Charlie
Hilles, who wrote me about his friend,
It just occurs to me,
from the P. S. , that he might be of
interest to you at FEC. I have asked him
to give me a call, but you might have a
word with Charlie if you are interested.
A.W.D.
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