Volume 7, Number 3 · September 8, 1966
The Double Dealer
By Gar Alperovitz
The Secret Surrender
by Allen W. Dulles
Harper & Row, 288 pp., $5.95
John F. Kennedy concluded after the Bay of Pigs that the reappointment of Allen Dulles as Director of the CIA had been a mistake. We are told, however, that he still could not understand how a man so intelligent and so experienced could be so wrong.[1] Dulles's account of his part in arranging the surrender of German armies in Italy sixteen years earlier offers important clues; it also illuminates the way in which Dulles helped set in motion the events that we know as the Cold War.
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