LETTER TO MR. COWLES FROM ALLEN DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000400230003-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 14, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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14 December 1956
Gardner Cowles, Esq. ,'
President and Editor `~
Cowles Magazines, Inc.
488 Madison Avenue
New York ZZ, Now York
Dear Mike:
I appreciated your letter of 5 December about my Land Grant
Colleges talk, and I venture to send you a copy of an address I made
at Princeton last Wednesday. Don't bother to road it but you might
be interested in looking at the marked passages which relate to the
general subject matter of your letter.
A year and a half ago, in an address I made at the Columbia
University graduation exercises, I predicted that massive education
in the USSR was a real threat to the Soviet system. I believe that
prediction is coining true, even more rapidly than I could have hoped,
and I would agree with the very able former British Ambassador that
at least drastic evolution will bring about further dramatic changes
over the coming years.
Sincerely,
6IGNED
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Allen W. Dulls s
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Director
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COWLES I1AGAZYNEs INC. Look Building, 488 Madison Ave., New York 22, N. Y, MURruYUlu 8-0300
December 5, 1956
Dear Allen:
Thank you for sending me a copy of your talk before the
Land Grant Colleges Association. I liked the speech very
much and also what the newspapers reported of your recent
speech at Yale.
In spite of the brutality in Hungary, I am convinced what
the historians would call "erosion from dictatorship" is
occurring in all of the satellites and in the Soviet Union
itself.
When I was in Moscow last May, Sir William Hayter, the
British Ambassador, told me in confidence that he would
not be surprised to see revolution, even in the Soviet
Union itself, within a few years. He seemed to sense
great unrest and increasing inefficiency in the sprawling
governmental bureaucracy.
The next four years may bring exciting new events. It is
an enormous relief to me to have President Eisenhower
in the White House in these uncertain times.
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
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