DULLES — ALLEN DULLES

Published June 14, 1999 3:00am ET




The CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, was recently named in honor of George Bush, who served there only one year as its director and whose connection with the spy business was tangential at best. The honor should have gone to Allen Dulles, called, by his British counterpart Sir Kenneth W. D. Strong, the “greatest intelligence officer who ever lived.”

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