The Craft of Intelligence book

“Alan Dulles never sat foot in the new building, the current CIA headquarters, as director of the CIA. It's like the ultimate slap in his face, actually, because he was largely in charge of building it and never allowed to go in it as the di…”

“Dulles spiced the book with a few colorful espionage tales but it essentially was an argument for the kind of aggressive intelligence establishment that he had built. He drew a dire picture of the espionage battlefield in the Cold War where…”

“he could not possibly conceive of such an unpleasant scenario actually occurring. When Cass Canfield asked Dulles to write a book drawing on his long career as a spook, Dulles was initially noncommittal, telling the publisher, first of all,…”

“Kennedy assassination, the CIA's assassination of Kennedy. But as Friday, November 22nd grew near, Dulles spent much of his time away from his Georgetown home base. His book tour, The Craft of Intelligence, provided the spymaster the perfec…”

“By now, Langley's efforts at damage control were rapidly being overtaken by events. Shutting down the Harrington Inquiry could not have saved the secret warriors. In June, the New York publisher, Alfred Koft, released the book, The CIA and …”

“By now, Langley's efforts at damage control were rapidly being overtaken by events. Shutting down the Harrington Inquiry could not have saved the secret warriors. In June, the New York publisher, Alfred Koft, released the book, The CIA and …”

“Allen on until the completion of the new CIA headquarters building in Langley, the construction of which had been one of Dulles' great dreams. And then he pulled the rug out and fired him so that he never got to be in the building officiall…”

“to publication of the Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen's memoirs on Kennedy. With their description of the president's concerns about the CIA plans, Dulles wrote drafts of a reply, hundreds of pages, but never published. The rebuttal shows…”

“to publication of the Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen's memoirs on Kennedy. With their description of the president's concerns about the CIA plans, Dulles wrote drafts of a reply, hundreds of pages, but never published. The rebuttal shows…”

“that a big mistake had been Dulles' absence from the scene. Going to Puerto Rico created a problem. Among smaller fry, Grayston Lynch, in 1998 memoir, published a fierce diatribe aimed primarily at Schlesinger, Sorensen, and the journalist …”

“While the spotlight was a sketchy publication at the time, Marchetti himself had credibility. A former Soviet military specialist for the CIA, he had risen to become a special assistant to Richard Helms before resigning in 69 over disagreem…”

“the reader that the Chinese communist under Mao followed the teachings of Sun Tzu, as if that's a reason for us to adopt it as well. As I read through The Craft of Intelligence, I kept looking for any section in which Dulles might show a si…”