{"id":2578,"date":"2008-01-29T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2008-01-29T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:08:15","slug":"a-great-find-for-intel-buffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"A Great Find For Intel Buffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kudos to the “Imperating Kents<\/a>“<\/strong> for their pointing to the digital archive of the private papers <\/a>of Allen Dulles<\/a><\/strong>, the OSS spymaster and seminal DCI whose tenure was responsible for much of the CIA’s later cultural mystique. KI<\/strong> had it right when they declared:<\/p>\n

It is thus with great interest we note that Princeton University has opened a <\/strong>digital archive of the private papers belonging to former DCI Allen Dulles<\/strong><\/a>. The variety and volume of materials is simply extraordinary, and although it is organized by librarians (rather than intelligence professionals or modern search engine experts) it is well worth the time to explore these virtual stacks. Given that the gentleman’s 1963 text <\/strong>The Craft of Intelligence<\/strong><\/a>, is still reprinted for use as a basic text at many university level programs, these further materials are both substantively illuminating and historically invaluable. Of particular interest are the French and German language items, which may never have been previously referenced in depth during intelligence studies research on the matter.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eisenhower’s<\/strong> role as a decisive voice in IC operations during his administration\u00a0has been\u00a0frequently underestimated by historians, with the consequent inflating of the role\u00a0played by\u00a0Allen Dulles. In reality, Dulles was deeply influential, given Ike’s high level of interest in intelligence matters and his brother John Foster Dulles<\/strong> <\/a>as SecState and sister Eleanor <\/strong>also in several consequential bureaucratic position at Foggy Bottom, including a stint in\u00a0State’s intelligence bureau, creating a formidible familial troika.\u00a0But\u00a0Dulles was not a free-lance operator in any sense of the word. That was something a hot-tempered President\u00a0Eisenhower would never have tolerated for an instant, despite cultivating a public\u00a0image of genial, grandfatherly, disconnection; nor was it in Dulles’ character to personally micromanage operations to the extent that being a “rogue” DCI would require.<\/p>\n

Dulles might have been America’s master spy but as DCI he carried out the orders of his political masters – to both great success and global scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kudos to the “Imperating Kents“ for their pointing to the digital archive of the private papers of Allen Dulles, the OSS spymaster and seminal DCI whose tenure was responsible for much of the CIA’s later cultural mystique. KI had it right when they declared: It is thus with great interest we note that Princeton University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,92,51,47,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-cia","category-history","category-intelligence","category-kents-imperative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}