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OCR Page 1 of 208Kennedy Fired Dulles as CIA Head
Behind the patriotic facades of nuclenr mili-
tarism. he saw the death of his own children
After the Bay of Pigs. President Kennedy ac-
and of all children. In a series of magnifi-
cent addresses, he urged us to reconsider our
Dulles. He had called in Dulles. Cabell- and Bissell
cepted the resignation of the head of the CIA. Allen
attitudes oward peace. the Sovict Union, and
and told them that the three would have to be re-
the Cold War. He won a treaty ending atomic
testing nbove ground nnd then paused to wait
placed. "Under the British system. he said. "I
would have to go. Dut under our system I'm afraid
a little for the more embattled of his cold-
war compatriots to catch up with the times.
it's got to be you."16 But Allen Dulles was to re-
turn to government service immediately after the
"At that moment. he was struck down. "11
killing of President Kennedy. He appeared as one of
the Warren Commissioners. Let us see whether the
father of the CIA served the people and the search
"President Kennedy today faces his greatest
for truth concerning the death of the departed Pres-
opportunity to negotiate 8 permanent peace.
ident. or whether he served the interests of the in-
but because of division inside his own Ad-
telligence communities not only in the United States
ministration he may miss the bost.
but in the Soviet Union as well.
"That is the consensus of friendly diplomats
Dulles Suppressed Evidence of
long trained in wntching the ebb and flow of
Oswald's Soviet Intelligence Connections
world events
On January 21. 1964. in a secret executive ses-
President Kennedy knew that his efforts to end
sion. the Warren Commission had to deal with the
the Cold War were dangerous to his life. In this
problem of Marina Oswald giving evidence that Oswald
regard 1 quote Arthur Schlesinger:
a Soviet agent. 17 Senator Richard Russell said: "18
was "That wil blow the lid if she testifies to that.
he said. "If 1 do the right kind of a job
when he saw Nixon after the Bay of Pigs I
And so it would have. How did the Commission deal
with that problem? Well. we learn from the tran-
don't know whether I am going to be here
script of the secret executive session that Isaac
four years from now If someone is going
Don Levine was helping Marina Oswald write a story
to kill me. he would say, 'they are going
for Life Magazine. which never got published. Allen
to kill me.'12
Dulles, the original director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency who was fired from his position by
President Kennedy saw the danger to his efforts
President Kennedy. decided to see Levine. Dulles
end the Cold War which lay in the power of the
said simply: "I can get him in and have a friendly
CIA. to So the New York Times quoted him as saying.
talk. I have known him. "19 Does that not sound as
that he wished "to splinter the "13 CIA into 1.000 pieces
if Allen Dulles was contemplating suppression of
and scatter it to the winds
information?
But that purpose was never accomplished by Presi-
Isaac Don Levine had a central role in the lliss
dent Kennedy. The CIA is a policy-making body still.
case. I quote Whitaker Chambers as he described in
Eugene McCarthy is of this opinion. I quote him as
his book. Witness. how Levine nursed him throuch his
follows:
uncertainty about launching into his allegations
against Mr. Alger Hiss. I quote:
"The general evidence is that in addition to
gathering and interpreting information. the
"The meeting was arranged by Isaac Don Levine
CIA does play an important part in influene-
For years he has carried on against Commu-
ing foreign policy. and certainly has become
nism a kind of private war which is also a
an important operating arm of the executive
public service. He is a skillful profes-
branch in this area of government responsi-
sional journalist and a notable 'ghost.
bility. "14
It was Levine who led Jan Valtin out of
the editorial night and he was working with
Andrew Tully states the position of the Kennedy
General Krivitsky on I was in Stalin's Sec-
administration with respect to the-CiA ofter the Bay
ret Service when, sometime in 1938 I met
of Pigs:
both men.
"The official concern. then. was not so much
"From the first. Levine had urged me to
that the CIA had bungled in the past. but
take my story to the proper authorities.
that it either had been entrusted with a
I had said no. When he proposed that
had seized the broad responsibility for mak-
he arrange a meeting at which I night tell
Tng policy which belonged to the State De-
my story directly to President Roosevelt,
partment.
I was reassured. "20
during most of Eisenhower's tenure. his
And why was a Cold War warrior like Isaac Don
Secretary of State was John Foster Dulles.
Levine not interested in raising the specter of a
and John Foster relied much more heavily on
political assassination by the left? Why was the
brother Allen's estimates than he did on the
idea of a leftist conspiracy unthinkable in the Cold
reports from his ambassadors. Inelfect
War America where for twenty-five years a virtual
brother John Foster made of brother Allen's
paranoia concerning communist plotting had prevailed?
CIA a kind of super_Foreign Service and ap-
Yet there was - as we have seen - some evidence of
parently found nothing incongruous
a leftist conspiracy. and it was not acted upon. Why
fact that in some embassies CIA personnel
not? What caused our government at the public level
outnumbered Foreign Service employes. It
to be so immediately and permanently wedded to the
was small wonder that the average citizen
lone-assassin myth?
was confused. after Cuba. as to who was
making foreign policy for the United States.
We are introduced through the transcript of this
Some top drawer members of the Washington
-15
,secret executive session to a new ghostly role for
diplomatic community were just as confused.
COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for December, 1971
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