LETTER TO MR. CHARLES J. V. MURPHY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003600130033-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 9, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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9 June 1960
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Mr. Charles J. Y. Murphy
Dear Charlie :
Many thanks for your note of May 23
with its enclosure with regard to the proposal
for the book which we have been discussing together.
I am taking your notes with me as I
leave tomorrow for a brief trip to Europe and
shall be in touch with you upon ray return.
Sincerely.
AWD/3i
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May 23, 1960
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Main Post Office
Box 1513
Washington 13, D.C.
My dear Allen:
Attached is a proposed outline for the
book under consideration. It is necessarily crude.
One can't very well draw an outline without having
a pretty good idea of what is to go into the book.
The power and strength of the book will
necessarily derive from the volume of specific detail
and incident that can be packed into it. There must
be, for the reader, a constant sense of witnessing
actual happenings being produced by a visible adversary..
The more of this sort of thing there is,
the more important the book will be. This can be done,
in irk judgment, without in any way detracting from its
authority. Whereas J. Edgar Hoover in Masters of Deceit
had to deal with comparatively minor figures, you will
have wreckers of nations on your stage. Detail is
necessary for another reason. It should make the book
important in the foreign market, and I, for one, would
be disappointed if it did not have a sale in every
country on its own merits.
Please let me know how these ideas sit with
you. I would be honored to give you a hand, however
palsied, and, indeed, would look upon the collaboration
as a duty.
In all esteem,
Cha?-fes J.V. Murphy
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