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On one occasion when a mutual friend of Dulles and Kennedy told the President
self - righteously that he was deliberately going to avoid seeing the CIA director ,
Kennedy went out of his way to support Dulles by inviting him for a drink and ...
On one occasion when a mutual friend of Dulles and Kennedy told the President
self - righteously that he was deliberately going to avoid seeing the CIA director ,
Kennedy went out of his way to support Dulles by inviting him for a drink and ...
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With great self - control he managed to avoid lashing out at Richard Bissell and
Allen Dulles , the two CIA chiefs who had cooked up the foolish plan and had
misled him into thinking that it would work . ( He did , however , quietly accept
their ...
With great self - control he managed to avoid lashing out at Richard Bissell and
Allen Dulles , the two CIA chiefs who had cooked up the foolish plan and had
misled him into thinking that it would work . ( He did , however , quietly accept
their ...
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ticular policy , he will find it difficult to avoid steering the group to give favorable
consideration to the preferred choice . Freedom from such constraints is probably
rare in any large organization , especially in a government hierarchy beset by ...
ticular policy , he will find it difficult to avoid steering the group to give favorable
consideration to the preferred choice . Freedom from such constraints is probably
rare in any large organization , especially in a government hierarchy beset by ...
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Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Wrong | 48 |
Or Why the Fortress Slept | 72 |
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