LETTER TO (Sanitized) FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: September 19, 1959
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19 September 1959
Mr. Denial Letourn*au f
Thank you for your letter of 26 August inquiring
further into my recollections in connection with the
history you are preparing of Admiral Canaris.
I cannot give you an exact date when I first mat
Hans Gisevius nor an exact date when he first informed
me of the plans to assassinate Hitler. I first met
Gisevius sometime early in 1943 and he advised me of
the specific plot against Hitler of July 20, 1944. a week
or ten days before that date. The communications I
received from Washington in response to my reporting
on the plot are not now available to me.
With regard to Gisevius' present whereabouts, I
understand that he has left the United States and I believe
he is now residing in Germany.
Sincerely.
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Dr. Allen W. Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Personal
e es y, 26 August-1959
I received your valued letter of 20 August just this morning. I want
to express my great gratitude for the personal opinion you gave me on Ad-
miral Canaris. You may rest assured, Mr. Dulles, that your opinion will
have a place in my history.
STAT
Attached is a photostatic copy of an article published in True Maga-
zine for September 59, which discusses your present position and describes
your career. Perhaps you have already read this article; but I wanted to
send it to you in case you had. not. No doubt it will amuse you.
In connection with this article, I should be very much interested in
knowing the exact date when Gisevius contacted you for the first time and
told you about the plans for the plot against Hitler. I should also like
to obtain the exact text ot'he rep ?Ngrom ng on in answer to your
telegram about the plot. In the same connevction if you could obtain for
me the present address of Gisevius, who, I understand, is living ink STAT
I should be delighted. You could also be of great help to me if you co,
identify for me some of the allied Intelligence officers who had contacts
with the ABWEHR during the war of 1939-191+5.
Please forgive me for making such demands on your kindness. I am
looking forward with great interest to your reply.
Cordially yours,
Daniel Ihtourneau
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ALLEN DULLES:'
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rr., Istd "CA Z N.-tal hc3.id ssuund.
t)utttI' tiltrlligrn,e r.?1l4rti. t: tNrt n1.111y
thr!,+1its. in.}udiity i.Ilt tx!,hcar, John.
Working mottly in the Clark, licit'"tweeib 40l4l .;+ ntlrman"
has hate hrii niorr plot.. than 1it.-k!', ``i+ill;tnc---
and his crack CI 1 it %lo%ly tlrir
,g tilt- Rutsianm crazy
By WILLIAM NATHAN
.WASHINGTON, 0 C.
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rnt l.ith .1 II-.II,IHtintctt flixu. .hr ?mttl,itint.1.
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tux rr't any doubt tlt.Il the 1Rutrwialls--41114
tlx?nd six times A, much " hulks dill's
clad probthly nun four or hse.ttnir. is
Itlany AW'lita)-know damn well that
1111 Tfu~1 against 1(41[111 frightrninlt 141444'
Whirs I)ulks (Ante lips as tltrertol Of
(Ilk, tit- laid (Illwal a tt>{? h 111.41. . tb
solute integrity." ht demanded. "keep
out of Imlitilt, Ix? ab%ohlMIt fearless. ftr-
pos t the 1.44 l s A% w t tat. (hits rey(a n1'les,
111 w1)( Norr Iticit it- p.41.itslWr to uupilau
bit- to the poht, nakt t,.'
Its 4.140.11 t1)-it .411 ,if the top In I"
the !Test({( It inl fulled, had A peril t
Curate iota th.t,t they wtmelt t wetting .1Il
Itailkwlp .slten [tic-, Aplsnntet! f)ulk-s 11
they IIA,1 any 110ttht, 41441111 It. the 1141) hr',
(11,111' A11d chi way ht gorte 4boUl 1114414[;
iA ft"It 144(+ hrli4tsr in A l'4 ttim. ' ISIS I
Dulles. ?}nit',t got to hrr.lk A 111th
trtlck4'ts 1,., (ling it into t?Httt") 1)454 I-I
Irt l n rly dispelled lhc+n It's well 11114It't
st4Xx1 diet A114-tt 1)ullrt it A meet wlw
looks 14.4141), in the tsr. ark( a man xh.i.
like(, In illi,ist that poilitKians do like-
wise.
1)ullcy ft)lluwrd a master (lIlt 1,u 1'
txeakt'r 4111() the top sfolt at (.11A Ill,
FWdrtv%%ur wAS (.ell Wilier 1tt,1rll
Smith, Eiia'nlttiwrr', 5411111W I hit t of tAff
And A m.0trr (II flit' t?-kf 544144 A+ul his
culting t411nrtk?+1t. Smith. jt4ireing ( I \ in
the waning years of the I Fustian i.lniin
111ra14t111. ,aw A lot wrong, with it It,
nw't14(51. were often 5.4nlettiing It-s. 411.114
ticientif4t, Anil un11C .4f its Prr'?(111n4I
seelnel~trr,,~b naire itstrrrstrd it) torte Xt.trnN4)-
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 taretree wArtiaw Uftke of Srr.itt'1tt. (s-
ites.
Sttlith onto hiied A it .% 1" .title. C)rtr
of the first was Alit it 1)itlft., all? ?,.iinc
time hell?ut had sttutird tlii Infant Cl t
and helped draw up a plan to put it on
a pruttisi(nral basis. " 1!,11 A rutt ihir- ri
port." said Smith. "Now t ?nie dow tl litre
a?d tell ttse how it) put it ii tttet I
Dullks, atsutrtt that flit p.il) sst'uhf i,ike
no more than ills wtekil. Applied lire a
prase of ahitence from his law f)tm. file's
bow in Washington ever sirite. The pro-
ftttisianal marriage between Ihlllm and
Boded Stank, as w) often happens iie-
tween Partners whose personalities don't
ttt!m to marsh, turned out to be a gnat
sttiartar. In a tR1-s short tint. Sleuth p7a
aakint Duties to take over ail chitf of
opeiatit nk and Dulles was attepting.
cinder Satoh And Dulles, (:1.k mv Its
fast big testt-the korran War This eras
a conflict in whit It Dui" had more than
a pattriotic inlcrrst his star. Allen )lacy
Dsdks, a lieutenant in the sf.uines, etas
at the front. YounK Duties got kst,mt ti)t
hard way-with A trrar-fatal head 5ensnd
that kept him in a htnpital for u..,
Months,and (roan whith he has nt?ser
corn Ittely retuvertd.
The IlLoMan rs.p}criencr WA's not with.
out aiht7 painful Itstxnctrts for Unfits
and the CIA. ihert? was a nightmarish
facture of iutetligrnce insohetl in the
disaster along the Yalu Rivtr. (.en.
Douglas %fatArthur's Fighih Army,
strung out in the thus snow ato the
Matsc#surfaet Bonier, tr7ire stun ctrlv
surprised when several million (.hitex
W iers tanit boiling over the hu)-a.s n.
Final blame fur this (a asarophe has nt ser
been fixed. One sttrrv has it that CI AL -mid
])'resident Truman, who told Nat Ariltttt,
tkat the Lhinese w -Ad attAck.
MaeArthur, uhiaw? own is)tetli.ence
held All optic iit stew. is vul to l.,ise
r5uadr(t I lulnan othrn;t,t, and g,;tti:n
his apl)rutal fni tilt lauttllii; 71 Intl:.,n.
III vet an4it her s (1514)11 Ill" %II'lIg
is thalked tip tis ('iA'.in the 1?.r1, ..17.44
it tailed tt,. tnaltaate a sigsitlt(at?t put-p,el
Of infortnatinn? that the C`tit;czr ar- i!r-
11ad st,nktii tilt ii(45115 tin - i)
dustauig 444,44 tike) It 14!41 .4 tat.)ui k.0111
)taiga till] is any ssiu ruL
Despite this itic spitt.4t11 a1 a1611K
guess-wht)rser ni,id4? it (I It ,~Ita' tilt
fast in tho'o scars untter Snit Pt
roof
Dulles. '1'ho, took in huntlrr(t, .it -Sr
tnation's brightest s.iung slier--w,nr- 17?m
ti-ilrge ta)upusea. wnu huts s.aLett *0
bttsir(css, Othr)s trutu III( utllcd
"11 hat )III, Itstrti air," sat, x)(111,'. "h,(s
the iti('a of hitiltling up i nta kit ' of
structure tit Aineritan gU5rrrrsuent, c1cAll
ittq A g(ut. tntelligei tc UIKAU5/a(1fsn .till
giving it Its innntentuut. its st.itt ?'
When Bedell Smith?% old tnniratlr in
at uts, D% tit 1) 1?.txttht.sslr, ht .t;.u
Presi(1t?nt. nuth trtosril .)s, I III 1,tttrmtr
nder lrtittars tit 'st..o l)ullt, seas tilt
logi(al own to su(teett the gtnetai. [!w
guiding itish s5 lath Dulles is'atal to .,iice
-1(4 eta' with (....4 until he MA
already h:tst t-ikon deals. in III, mind
new kiiril of 5111141104? iu 1nk'ti4al, gtis-
(-I tnkYtt it Ioultl lit with .1 (i. it: 11
sa'isitu~t,c.i tnuii,an+ ilk( tti run dit"t
busine%s?tit it) tilt u i?n .1txt 1144 iIl11%4.t
,1411 ot)(inuatiutn As snt?akv as (.11 out
b.iuruf If, ht sub", t to .t t tatt)itutit
,)! %u?j.uian anti tatgy lit:lil+ri t .444 41
io.tny teiiplt still lest a, f t, rst s4-11n54,11
Is-It w ti. in 1 `.'!4, he tAnttiI,,l plall-
kit a : s sti ptatat ll. anti lliKra)a tt nt't-
wcrk. ".f;t-ntlrtttwti." said Sin ;s.,r;, 'oft)
And then' arc r,thrr fatttrr,. 1 he traili-
tiolful irtt(tligtn?t sersitrs- Srnt%, $asi.
.kit. Stan --naturalh don?t lika the idt:i
of being t(MMutinatetf afkt ptiett h's an
upstart I hey host prNiann of their own
to piromcrte. while CIA, as Mile-, so sit(
pirutly puitttt )ut, "has no azc~. it, grind
arnt t backs to uratth.'
Tbt al their, wt it .]%Ay% tho' titllci 1.11
tla?ttinr I rtasur7 De
laarttucrat. with its letrct Se-isite atti ln--
1ti414ratr4ui %n'. ot- txtnts and, .A (tiUrsc,
the I Ill. klth..ugh (.i.t ha, ,i.. lhtliit
}r4r!feint-T4147 (ft-sitr ih?ttight tip
by Congress to keep Ii ttttn tutnan, into
iA t..tsiapt.)--411-44 is a (CEtAill M10411111 -I
jcalt.uis Anti cot-ftitt ansong 1Iic s.arious
undtYtusrt artvwrs. Stlittal stars ago
there is A tree-bit?atl in a downtown
1A'ashittgitin restaurant, I lit I it!-( ktui
keitetis, ialsu1- in-g utint Iluniigi -ii?lt lift 11
std C_.IA,igtut,. k.oll (,"'k lint ,.Ilia Ix
615511 IUttitt Agent. arkl there %tIIt itiant
Warding noses And sworlten r;t?s tw 14iar
stufak tt-idler heads retivet! ta, a 4.irnl t and
flashed t),titntj.ls at (aril alltxhca
CIA and FBI men don't usualh more
to t)j is+I. but this host had their
tp
rxsts. 11" two agentit- rtstr operate
ita edit itch!-' it Iiittrfy-(.1 k lreitiK
thattttsi with rvpwss el, .tsrrti'a-,..tiiat flit'
111.1 with ti'sitttt't trn--;urd hut edt i Fxp Geru4arr. were wr,rkine on a .,,tot
wxial lu)n. lie studied enough, I prrv ir?rtrr outlining his sitws on the against which timer.- sat n.1 di
no gradtt:lte with a Phi &?t. kappa kev. miw?r.rhle JOIN s?tal'? let the Fixcign Sirs- Tense a wral0,m that might mate 4.?41)1
Thus equipp d. he xi out to walk his ice. "11w letter.' he rti:rlls hapl? ih, Ili, 0M1:n for ihr tia,i4.
Way 4rerun/l the World as a 1 u of inaclt (loin a (plash. I think it tray ha-.c i it. i,ealw,n was Wehrrret Sen Ri' inn's
tvadic)
English. to get to his 6r'st je)b-i $;O1). hail .a)nxthilnk to) do with upping sal- 4'-2 r1,.kct, list- first true hallistii mi.,ile
a-Ve;rr pt>At at .klla}taba(t Christian 4._4A- tries." I)uik-, rr? iortee! that the t:.=rinatr. (Sego.
leg, in India-he lroankd a ship for Miles ,tssetf nn Wall Strict, white it st,11 the r4xkvts, in lam=e rrtrml?r,. ,t
Europe, b&uring that it was better L0 see upping s:ilsrie'c is nn l,rnhli in. until the .i Brill, range ir/?ar I'rrnemunde. n), tht-
Pari- slid Rutter titan S,UOl iniks of eititbrr,4k 1)1 Woorld War If- I hen Gen. Bal.UU (:aril. The signifrtan4r- it !hit itg-
enohtV Paiifit. tit iilianr J ("Wild hill') 1h,nosart called isiel(Ld imn0rdiate'h? ttl)