THE DULLES PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83B00823R000200070095-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: July 11, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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11 July 1969
THE DULLES PAPERS
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Mr. Dulles' a ers, which were removed from his home
a. to Room GE-42 at Langley shortly after
his death, were stored in six safes and five boxes. Before sorting,
these safes and boxes contained the following:
Safe No. 1 - OS~ Files 1942-1945
Top three drawers: Classified U. S.
Government cables and dispatches,
agent reports, etc.
Bottom drawer: Unclassified reference
material used as background for the
book "Germany's Underground. IT
Safe No. 2 - MEMOIRS - I
Top drawer: Personal mementos Mr.
Dulles assembled from his years as
DCI, photos, passports, letters of
congratulation, etc. The only classi-
fied folder was one containing records
of Agency personnel actions regarding
Mr. Dulles. (Removed)
Remaining three drawers contain scrap-
books of press clippings and photographs
1947-1962, all unclassified.
Safe No. 3 - MEMOIRS - II
The top three drawers of this safe contain
Mr. Dulles' letters to his family, mementos
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of his work for the State Department in
the 1920's and of his private and legal
activities during the years he was not
employed by the Government. In the
second drawer at the back are now
deposited the items which Mrs. Dulles
lent Mr. Pforzheimer for the exhibit at
Langley after Mr. Dulles' death: his
decorations, a letter from President
Kennedy, the corrected proofs of "The
Secret Surrender, " and an autographed
book by Ian Fleming, all unclassified.
Bottom drawer: Folders of classified or
sensitive material relating to special
contacts Mr. Dulles maintained with
private persons during his years as DCI.
(Removed)
Safes No. 4 - CHRONO FILES
and No. 5
These safes contained two types of material
which Mr. Dulles assembled during his
years as DDCI and DCI:
1. Calendar pads on which appointments
were noted, diaries recording phone
conversations, conferences, etc. ,
records of meetings.
2. Chronological correspondence folders
arranged alphabetically for each year
(1951-1961) in which the incoming
letter is usually attached to the answer,
if any, which Mr. Dulles wrote. Although
this was office correspondence, the larger
part of it is not official business but of a
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social and personal nature. Through-
out these files, however, there was a
certain amount of classified Agency
and inter-Agency memoranda and
numerous unclassified but sensitive
correspondence especially of the sort
which would reveal that certain private
persons or organizations were lending
their services to the Agency.
Safe No. 6 - CHRONO FILES
For years after Mr. Dulles' retirement
(1962-1968). Mostly unclassified.
All the material in Safes No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6
under item 1. above has been removed and all the classified
or sensitive material under item 2. above.
BOXES: Two boxes containing background materials
for the books, "The Craft of Intelligence"
and "The Secret Surrender, " also miscel-
laneous papers, speeches, public writings,
tapes, etc. A small amount of classified
material found in these boxes has been
removed.
Three boxes containing largely CIA studies
on Soviet Russia, RIS, Communism, defectors,
etc., which Mr. Dulles had borrowed from the
Agency in order to prepare a book on Communism
which was never written. In these boxes also
loose material on the Bay of Pigs, U-2, and
other matters on which Mr. Dulles at one time
intended to write articles. Mostly classified
material.
In culling and sorting the above material, I separated the
sensitive from the nonsensitive material in such a way that all the
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papers to be held by the Agency can now be removed physically
from GE-42 (some of it has already been removed to 4E-53) leaving
in GE-42 only those unclassified papers to be returned to the estate,
where the appraiser, Mr. Metzdorf, can have a look at them.
UNCLASSIFIED MATERIAL TO BE RETURNED TO THE ESTATE
(in GE-42)
Safes No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 (numbers
marked on top drawer of safe)
All classified and sensitive material has been
removed from these as noted above. The unclassified
material that was in the bottom drawer of Safe No. 1
(background for "Germany's Underground") has been
placed in the bottom drawer of Safe No. 3 to be returned
to the estate.
Boxes No. 1 and No. IA
Now containing unclassified background material
only for "Craft of Intelligence" and "The Secret Surrender,
speeches, public writings, and tapes of interviews.
CLASSIFIED MATERIAL (OR UNCLASSIFIED BUT SENSITIVE)TO
BE HELD BY AGENCY
(In GE-42 ready for removal):
OSS - Files 1942-1945
(Top three drawers, bottom drawer
now empty)
(Suggested disposal: Can be turned over directly to OSS Archives)
Boxes No. 2 and No. 3 - Calendars, diaries, appointments,
record of phone conversations of
DDCI and DCI, 1951-1961.
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Boxes No. 4 and No. 8 - DCI files of special importance:
White House, U-2, missile gap,
CIA legislation, private sources,
etc.
(Suggested disposal: Much of historical interest. Wayne
may wish to see. )
Boxes No. 5, No. 6, - Soviet materials, casebooks of
and No. 7 Soviet espionage, defector reports,
studies of Communism, etc.
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(Suggested disposal: Could be turned over directly to SB
where most of this material originated. )
(Stored in safe in 4E-53):
a. Classified and sensitive correspondence removed from
DCI Chronos, 1951-1961. The classified material has
not yet been separated from the sensitive but unclassified.
Arranged in folders by years.
b. Envelopes of special material on Bay of Pigs,
Conversations with Mikoyan, etc., also box of cards
with DDCI contacts in 1951.
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sensitive reports, but will be done next. Most of this
can be returned to the estate and can deal
with estate directly about retrieving it.
COMMENT: The only material which apparently raises any
legal problem are the "sensitive but unclassified" papers from the
Chronos mentioned in a. above. This constitutes CATEGORY III in
Mr. Houston's letter to the executors of the Dulles estate. They
should perhaps be separated from the classified papers in the expecta-
tion that some day they may be returned to the estate. I will be glad
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to complete this task if desired. Everything else I have held back
is clearly stamped with some classification except for the diaries
and calendars (Boxes No. 2 and No. 3 above) whose sensitivity,
however, as a record of government operations, cannot be questioned.
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