LETTER TO MR. W. L. WHITE FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003700110087-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: June 2, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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~ JUN 1960
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THE EMPORIA GAZETTE
W. L. WHITE
EDITOR
Dear Alen
j'Iay ~:~, 1gfi0
`~~ihen you cease to hP
a tar?~et far dead cad:; 2~tid het time for your
mail, this may j_nteres t yo~.~. It appeared
last weet~ in ~l'he Uazette; befcre the ~ir?esi-
t
dent s speech.
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ii ? iptelli~enc~ a ~laneffi over t~-e
v et Unlon one the, eve 4~_~ ~ "
? ~ ..,
~ ~ovCy~ sgXvas dur central
T~~ ~ ~ ~ ?.. ?4 ... +F itkl?5
nt 1lgenc A y to have sent
' kk i N o ~ . a t ~ "fcyn sS 1i i
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fpcts-_ orris o t, the less silly
~ 1~e
~
~ CIA oks, { i indeed it was
~A ~~? w~t~er~l~ tbal for ?getti
re~iQUS t4 us ann to the cause
~l~ peace. " fihose 'flights, " we
~' ~o
,
~~ learn; have `been goink bn
g~l~c~ 1956,withgu~ a mishap, for
hg U-2 was Tiuila to cruise aid
fake pictures at , an altitude of
f `t~~ ground; ' an~ far' af;ove' 'tie
~ ~ ~~e of any 'S`o . et a~tti4ai acta~t
,
$ter? ~ } .
~ar~lessly' seveai 'miles b~riea~h
~ ~'~r this reaso> during those
- ~'ourx years we h8d got no protests
~rorti the r Itussi ~s, rho t+ve~'e
clearly anstous, t conceal front
their own peop~e' the' fact "that
these flights, ~h~ch t~heq coutd
dot prevent, were'gbin~? oin. '`
let us now :d' some' secotld
gue~sittg. l~lo mater how' perfect
tbol the U-2 ~eerrtad to be,
%here is always c~ilance of sortie
failure, mechanic 1 or huma~i,
" high would pttt ra pot` and ~a
lane in Soviet ~anc' . Why take
,risk -'even`t~ot ~h~it seel'n~d ,
Might - by senc~ins over a plane
R-[
$n, the eveaof a~tconference? ,
The answe~he"rep ~~tliat,' a~ dust _
uch a time, ac~;trate nform3-
qn was at`;an erior#mous~preYY~lAYA1.
erg is our T~ -; dent? abou o
it down with ' fie woad Ieac~ers "
~' " ~o discuss disarmnment~ if ~thero
$n what the Russians `v~ere uli' ~o
t ~t `C~ntral `Tn-
? ~n the groutad'
~
elligence Agen~~ ~rd~tld ' have
been crim~naTly ~ neg~ig+ent if it
"ailed to ,get ar~d 're`port that
Change, sa tlta~ Our ~ P'resident
Could have this" ~resh ' attd vital
' ~noWledge, ~ even ~hoti~i we r2~t
~ome slight. risk in 'getfang it. ?
` So, taking this} ~mafl'~ca~lCUlated
disk because the stakes wefe
~iigh, that l~-2 tooktoff o#t 1Vfay 15t.
gust what ~~tappened, "1~ miles to
a ; fir over ~~etdlovsk? VFe
'
'
' '
fir
v~rstori,
~j~ve the . Russra~r
rather, two con~litting ones. "Tfio
truth we may', n~~~er know, but
Vie' tYiay tlteortze. ' ``
Qr~e, t~teo~ cou'l~ 6 that in re-
8: S 4f1 Y i. 4._4._.3 e? '~tT-:
sy~ been ~ble'ta `d~vel~p "an anal-`
rt~~ mite.5~n~'S~rlil~ ~c~ttt'a'Cety:
~his~ lUl~ay= lit 8t~y ~ used Yit
~ad~"~fi ct~e tb~tid'iF oat;`i
t~'~orrv ` the'" fact:
~tus~iaris bae3i ~~'
~fi~r'~-t"'-~fle"~ 1~a~e
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gry, .,.that
e ..pf,. , , o~'ge~?
n~ down to 1~4,o4Q
w~hui easy range of
ak, 3vhic}~ , epuld have
up and be photographed in his fly-
ing. suit 'd rectly after the crash,
anc~ to ire interYiewed. Secondly,
the plank ~ vas not blow to bits _
,and? scat~er~ed, aS would ave hap-
pen2d a~te~- a direct 17~it by a
pilot se . to have survived al-
m0t un~atch~d; able} to stand
dis~aL~ce away...
~ nuzrjfi~r of the know~t facts fit
this theory. They are, that the
CI' pTetl hi plane., sot - t he had
to,: it tl~e, aXlk, ,le~vi'ng is plane,
out of Gon~'ol, ty hit the eck Spm~
But back' now, to tie Central
***
~oc$et at. ~~ mikes, but j (again
fram phbtpgraphs) -- sQems 'np
moi~e bactJy, twisted. up than is the
average ci~ilian plane w tch flies
.}-1int1 into a mountain side,
~ervtS t~i~ r_o~ntry has ever
~
t *.. * '
So eye loft.; But let us ma~e sure
that, ,in the hysteria of t~tis mo-
~nentz We clo not also lose ` in. Mr.
t111en i Duhgs; o~~e of the coolest,
$~hrewdest ~r~d mo'st usefuf public
Intehigence Agency headed by
-Allen Dullef4, a Truman ppointee
who ` has t c coolest- hea in the
business. , tas that millipn-to-one
.2'isk of oxygen failure worth taking
' > on tie eve ~f the summi~ confer-
ence'~ A thousand times ~ yes,
and particularly on the eve of
#hat :conference. ,,For in our fast-
s Chan ing World, Stale information
,I~as [tile ~~luc. A known fact a
:year old ' i~ worthless. A two-
month-old f' ct has somex value,
9~ut not myc~i. But atwo-week-old
fact Can bg ~riceIess. And it was
the dear t~uty of Allen Dulles 'to
take .,any mfllion-to-one. calculated
Irisk an ord r to'` supply ~ to our
$'resident, a~ than coming"confer-
ence, just ~tlch fresh facts, if
they existet~ Had the chances
been even 10' to one, ,it would have
' .been yvorth
, h ing.
l;iad.-W. L. l~v. , . ,
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