Allen Dulles Quotes

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek a shelter in some happier star? Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Our country’s cheerleaders are wedded to the notion of American exceptionalism. But when it comes to the machinations of power, we are all too similar to other societies and ones that have come before us. There is an implacable brutality to power that is familiar throughout the world and throughout history.

If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn’t exist.

It is one of the most dangerous, in fact potentially suicidal, things a great nation can do in world affairs: to cut off its eyes and ears, to castrate its analytic capacity, to shut itself off from the truth because of blind prejudice and a misguided dispensation of good and evil. Foster

She trailed off when she realised Will was turning a dull red. For a big, muscular guy, he sure blushed a lot.

What he confessed was this. He had not been serving God, after all, when he followed Allen Dulles. He had been on a satanic quest. These were some of James Jesus Angleton’s dying words. He delivered them between fits of calamitous coughing—lung-scraping seizures that still failed to break him of his cigarette habit—and soothing sips of tea. “Fundamentally, the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars,” Angleton told Trento in an emotionless voice. “The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted. . . . Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, in looking back on my life, I regret. But I was part of it and loved being in it.” He invoked the names of the high eminences who had run the CIA in his day—Dulles, Helms, Wisner. These men were “the grand masters,” he said. “If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.” Angleton took another slow sip from his steaming cup. “I guess I will see them there soon.

In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA's MKULTRA programme, which included experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new dissociated identities, new memories, and responses to hypnotic access codes. In 1972, then-CIA director Richard Helms and Gottlieb ordered the destruction of all MKULTRA records. A clerical error spared seven boxes, containing 1738 documents, over 17,000 pages. This archive was declassified through a Freedom of Information Act Request in 1977, though the names of most people, universities, and hospitals are redacted. The CIA assigned each document a number preceded by "MORI", for "Managament of Officially Released Information", the CIA's automated electronic system at the time of document release. These documents, to be referenced throughout this chapter, are accessible on the Internet (see: abuse-of-power (dot) org/modules/content/index.php?id=31). The United States Senate held a hearing exposing the abuses of MKULTRA, entitled "Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research into behavioral modification" (1977).

Adolf Hitler declared war in 1941. By 1942, Allen Dulles was moved to Switzerland for the purpose of rounding up and importing German scientific “specialists” to the United States. Two years before the war ended (or its fate was decided), the United States was making arrangements for Nazi scientists, arms experts, to come to our democracy (for which the boys were fighting and dying at that moment).12 From 1945 until 1952, the U.S. military brought over 642 alien “specialists” and their families from Nazi Germany. They were known collectively by the code-name “Paperclip.” German missile and rocket experts, munition makers, war experts were carefully selected and placed in aerospace programs and armament manufacturing.13

It took me a long time to realize that when he talks it is only for the purpose of obtaining something.

There is a kind of dreary monotony about there characters, an American sameness about them that never varies and is always dull.

Allen Dulles was even a member of the advisory board of Scholastic Magazines, whose publications were distributed to schoolchildren throughout the country.

Oscar-winning triumph. The New York Times called it “a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code.” It was that and more. The hero acts precisely as many Americans believe their country acts in the world. He is an enforcer of morality and a scourge of oppressors; he comes from far away but knows instinctively what must be done; he brings peace by slaying wrongdoers; he risks his life to help others; and for all this he wishes no reward other than the quiet satisfaction of having done what was right. Shane reinforced a cultural consensus

So I dream nightly of an embarcation, captains, captains, iron passageways, cabin lights, Brooklyn across the waters, the great dull boat, visitors, farewells, the blurred vast sea-- one trip a lifetime's loss or gain : as Europe is my own imagination --many shall see her, many shall not-- though it's only the old familiar world and not some abstract mystical dream. And in a moment of previsioning sleep I see that continent in rain, black streets, old night, a fading monument . . . And a long journey unaccomplished yet, on antique seas rolling in gray barren dunes under the world’s waste of light toward ports of childish geography the rusty ship will harbor in . . .

That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.

I sat, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old mans heart.

alarmed zoo guards by sticking his hand through the bars of a cage to pat the cheek of a Bengal tiger. “This is like prison—I have been in prison, too,” said Fidel, who had survived Batista’s cages.

The Church Committee investigation clearly showed that J. Edgar Hoover had a personal vendetta against Dr. King, and it has been reported he lost no love for the Kennedy brothers. The Kennedys were not only on the wrong side of Hoover's FBI, they were on the wrong side of the CIA as well. JFK fired several top intelligence officers (he asked for Allen Dulles' resignation) and at the time of his death he was privately talking about reorganizing the entire U.S. intelligence service.

Under the doctrine of “plausible deniability” favored by Allen Dulles, the president was sometimes not told things it might be inconvenient or embarrassing for him to know—assassination plots against foreign politicians, for instance. But in this case, plausible deniability for the president would not have been required, for the United States was not doing anything dubious. It looks instead as though crucial intelligence about the activities of key allies was withheld from the president during an international crisis.

Finally, let us heed the words of perhaps one of our greatest generals and Presidents, Dwight David Eisenhower  who warned us of the ‘dangers of the military /industrial complex’ but also warned the unrestrained Allen Dulles, then DCI, that ‘your CIA will create a Legacy of Ashes throughout or American history’.  What made Eisenhower great?                  He took us literally out of a failed Korean War initiated by Truman and refused to enter another war –Vietnam War, (unfortunately ultimately initiated by JKF and LBJ.)

[The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.

During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from Communist tyranny, they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak-and-dagger brutality.

As (the Soviet newspaper) Pravda said in 1951,"If ever the spy Allen Dulles should arrive in Heaven through somebody's absent-mindedness, he would begin to blow up the clouds, mine the stars, and slaughter the angels." Allen Dulles cared little for the methods that were used to accomplish the secret projects he funded. Proof of this is clear when you look at his attempts in 1950 to convince John McCloy to intervene in General Alexander von Falkenhausen's trial. Von Falkenhausen had executed hostages in Belgium throughout the war and ordered the deportation of 25,000 Jews to death camps. Von Falkenhausen drew a twelve-year sentence but was freed after three weeks.

When World War II was over, and the communists were still very much alive, THE SAME CORPORATIONS AND MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES THAT ARMED GERMANY AFTER WWI sent the Nazis and war criminals with their loot, counterfeit or otherwise, to the USA, Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America. Allen Dulles, Wall Street attorney, made arrangements for the Nazis’ exit. He became the first director of the CIA in 1947. The divisions and decoys we fall into, all the categories of conflict, never follow history or documents day-by-day to understand why we have so many assassinations and cover-ups. Over 600 Nazis were brought to our defense industries, universities and hospitals from 1945-1952 under Project Paperclip.

JFK asked his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to break up organized crime. Nobody high-up in government has tangled the Mafia. J. E. Hoover, the hired hands of FBI and CIA, ran the assassination teams. They have been used since World War II. JFK was attempting to end the oil-tax depletion rip-offs, to get tax money from oil companies. JFK instituted the nuclear test ban treaty, often called “the kiss of death,” to oppose the Pentagon. JFK called off the Invasion of Cuba. He allowed Castro to live, antagonized narcotics and gambling, oil and sugar interests, formerly in Cuba. JFK asked his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to break up the CIA, the “hidden government behind my back.” Allen Dulles was fired. Dulles, the attorney for international multinationals, was angry. JFK planned to withdraw troops from Vietnam after the 1964 elections. Nov. 24, 1963, two days after JFK’s burial, the Pentagon escalated the Vietnam war … with no known provocations, after JFK was gone. There was no chance Kennedy could survive antagonizing the CIA, oil companies, Pentagon, organized crime. He was not their man. The assassination of JFK employed people from the Texas-Southwest. It was not a Southern plot. Upstarts could not have controlled the northern CIA, FBI, Kennedy family connections. This was a more detailed, sophisticated conspiracy that was to set the pattern for future murders to take place. The murder was funded by Permindex, with headquarters in Montreal and Switzerland. Their stated purpose was to encourage trade between nations in the Western world. Their actual purpose was fourfold: 1) To fund and direct assassinations of European, Mid-East and world leaders considered threats to the western world, and to Petroleum Interests of their backers. 2) Provide couriers, agents for transporting and depositing funds through Swiss Banks for Vegas, Miami and the international gambling syndicate. 3) Coordinate the espionage activities of White Russian Solidarists and Division V of the FBI, headed by William Sullivan. 4) Build, acquire and operate hotels and gambling casinos. See: Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, by William Torbitt.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover “mistrusted and disliked all three Kennedy brothers. President Johnson and Hoover had mutual fear and hatred for the Kennedys,” wrote the late William Sullivan, for many years an assistant FBI director. Hoover hated Robert Kennedy, who as Attorney General was his boss, and feared John. In turn, the President distrusted Allen Dulles, and eased him out as CIA director after the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle. When JFK moved to lower the oil depletion allowance, he incurred the displeasure of John McCloy, whose clients’ profits would be trimmed. Hoover, Dulles and McCloy did not belong to the Kennedy fan club. Hoover controlled the field investigation when the president was shot. Dulles and McCloy helped mold the final verdict of the Warren Commission.

I am against allowing the CIA to spend $25 million since 1947 for the express purpose, as stated before, to alter our behavior. Is the State supreme over individuals? Who owns or controls our minds? Why was CIA Director Allen Dulles allowed to order 100 million LSD tablets? Were half the U.S. population going to receive their doses? What gives the CIA and Pentagon the right to define normal, or to determine what is national security? Are we being drugged through food, water and supplied with chemicals so we become slaves and robots? Where is all the cancer coming from? Why the preoccupation with death? Why is the U.S. Government in the business of creating a "Psycho-civilized" world? Who is ordering the ultrasonic waves to lower brain waves of city populations to an alpha state, leaving citizens susceptible to mass propaganda and hypnotic suggestion? These facts have been confirmed by researcher Walter Bowart in 1977. I learned about the project years ago.

Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we have today. Members of the Nazi Party now hold key positions in our universities, factories, aircraft and aerospace programs.14 When the Nazi empire collapsed in 1945, General Reinhard Gehlen joined forces with our OSS. Gehlen was placed in charge of wartime intelligence for Foreign Armies East. “It was not long before Gehlen was back in business, this time for the United States. Gehlen named his price and terms.”15 A series of meetings was arranged at the Pentagon with Nazi Gehlen, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and others.16 The Gehlen organization combined forces and agents with the OSS, which was soon to become known as the CIA. Experts in clandestine and illegal control of Germany through political assassinations and reversal of judicial processes became the teachers of Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. They helped form the new CIA in 1947, based upon clandestine activities in Nazi Germany.17

Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America

¿QUIÉN DESATÓ LA VIOLENCIA EN GUATEMALA?   En 1944, Ubico cayó de su pedestal, barrido por los vientos de una revolución de sello liberal que encabezaron algunos jóvenes oficiales y universitarios de la clase media. Juan José Arévalo, elegido presidente, puso en marcha un vigoroso plan de educación y dictó un nuevo Código del Trabajo para proteger a los obreros del campo y de las ciudades. Nacieron varios sindicatos; la United Fruit Co., dueña de vastas tierras, el ferrocarril y el puerto, virtualmente exonerada de impuestos y libre de controles, dejó de ser omnipotente en sus propiedades. En 1951, en su discurso de despedida, Arévalo reveló que había debido sortear treinta y dos conspiraciones financiadas por la empresa. El gobierno de Jacobo Arbenz continuó y profundizó el ciclo de reformas. Las carreteras y el nuevo puerto de San José rompían el monopolio de la frutera sobre los transportes y la exportación. Con capital nacional, y sin tender la mano ante ningún banco extranjero, se pusieron en marcha diversos proyectos de desarrollo que conducían a la conquista de la independencia. En junio de 1952, se aprobó la reforma agraria, que llegó a beneficiar a más de cien mil familias, aunque sólo afectaba a las tierras improductivas y pagaba indemnización, en bonos, a los propietarios expropiados. La United Fruit sólo cultivaba el ocho por ciento de sus tierras, extendidas entre ambos océanos. La reforma agraria se proponía «desarrollar la economía capitalista campesina y la economía capitalista de la agricultura en general», pero una furiosa campaña de propaganda internacional se desencadenó contra Guatemala: «La cortina de hierro está descendiendo sobre Guatemala», vociferaban las radios, los diarios y los próceres de la OEA[97]. El coronel Castillo Armas, graduado en Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, abatió sobre su propio país las tropas entrenadas y pertrechadas, al efecto, en los Estados Unidos. El bombardeo de los F-47, con aviadores norteamericanos, respaldó la invasión. «Tuvimos que deshacernos de un gobierno comunista que había asumido el poder», diría, nueve años más tarde, Dwight Eisenhower[98]. Las declaraciones del embajador norteamericano en Honduras ante una subcomisión del Senado de los Estados Unidos, revelaron el 27 de julio de 1961 que la operación libertadora de 1954 había sido realizada por un equipo del que formaban parte, además de él mismo, los embajadores ante Guatemala, Costa Rica y Nicaragua. Allen Dulles, que en aquella época era el hombre número uno de la CIA, les había enviado telegramas de felicitación por la faena cumplida. Anteriormente, el bueno de Allen había integrado el directorio de la United Fruit Co. Su sillón fue ocupado, un año después de la invasión, por otro directivo de la CIA, el general Walter Bedell Smith. Foster Dulles, hermano de Allen, se había encendido de impaciencia en la conferencia de la OEA que dio el visto bueno a la expedición militar contra Guatemala. Casualmente, en sus escritorios de abogado habían sido redactados, en tiempos del dictador Ubico, los borradores de los contratos de la United Fruit. La caída de Arbenz marcó a fuego

So long as you input the appropriate parameters, the star could be a model for our sun. Think about it. It’s always useful to have the sun in your computer memory. It’s the biggest presence that’s close to us in the cosmos, but we could take more advantage of it. The model may have many more discoveries lying in wait.” Rey Diaz said, “One previous use of the sun is what brought humanity to the brink, and brought you and me to this place.” “But new discoveries might bring humanity back. So today, I’ve invited you here to watch the sunrise.” The rising sun was now just peeking its head over the horizon. The desert in front of them came into focus like a developing photograph, and Rey Diaz could see that this place, once blasted by the fires of hell, was now covered in sparse undergrowth. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” Allen exclaimed. “What?” Rey Diaz whipped his head around, as if someone had shot him from behind. “Oppenheimer said that when he watched the first nuclear explosion. I think it’s a quote from the Bhagavad Gita.” The wheel in the east expanded rapidly, casting light across the Earth like a golden web. The same sun was there on that morning when Ye Wenjie had tuned the Red Shore antenna, and even before that, the same sun had shone upon the dust settling after the first bomb blast. Australopithecus a million years ago and the dinosaurs a hundred million years ago had turned their dull eyes upon this very sun, and even earlier than that, the hazy light that penetrated the surface of the primeval ocean and was felt by the first living cell was emitted by this same sun. Allen went on, “And then a man called Bainbridge followed up Oppenheimer’s statement with something completely nonpoetic: ‘Now we are all sons of bitches.’” “What are you talking about?” Rey Diaz said. Watching the rising sun, his breathing became ragged. “I’m thanking you, Mr. Rey Diaz, because from now on we’re not sons of bitches.

who view the CIA as complicit in Kennedy’s assassination point to the CIA’s role in covert operations in Vietnam as the reason why the CIA wanted Kennedy’s removal from office. Col. Fletcher Prouty, in his highly documented book, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, reveals that Kennedy was attempting to end the CIA’s influence over covert operations.[301] Chief among these was the escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam that Kennedy wanted to end. This he posits is why Kennedy was assassinated. There is, however, a more compelling reason why the CIA wanted Kennedy’s removal from office - the CIA’s role in controlling classified UFO information, and denying access to other government agencies including the office of the President. The assassination of President Kennedy was the direct result of his efforts to gain access to the CIA’s control of classified UFO files. Unknown to Kennedy, a set of secret MJ-12 directives issued by his former CIA Director, Allen Dulles, ruled out any cooperation with Kennedy and his National Security staff on the UFO issue. It was Dulles and another six MJ-12 Group members who sanctioned the directives found in the burned document, including a political assassination directive against non-cooperative officials in the Kennedy administration. This could be applied to Kennedy himself if the official entrusted to carry out the MJ-12 Assassination Directive concluded the President threatened MJ-12 operations.

President Lyndon Johnson was forced to select a commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Texas authorities were called upon to conduct the original investigation. There were too many suspicious people around the world who believed a conspiracy existed. Those rumors had to be squelched. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI never budged from its position that Lee Harvey acted alone. Any evidence that didn’t conform to this conclusion was ignored. Twenty-six volumes of witness testimony and exhibits were published, and only 8,000 copies were sold. No more reprints. The contradiction between the conclusions of the Warren Report, and the abundance of discrepancies in the other volumes, makes fascinating reading. Chief Justice Earl Warren, John J. McCloy and Allen Dulles were LBJ’s logical choices. President Kennedy didn’t trust CIA Director Dulles. Now JFK was dead and Dulles would be in charge of all possible “conspiracy” investigations. Richard Nixon, temporarily retired from politics for the first time since 1946, selected Rep. Gerald Ford to sit on this commission. Nixon selected Ford a second time when he ran home to escape impeachment during the Watergate hearings.

We cannot forget [for example] that one of the big war factories in Germany was the Opel Company which was owned and financed by the General Motors Corporation, a company in which Secretary Stettinius had a great interest.

The biggest electric company in Germany was owned and financed by the General Electric Company of New York.

Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America is in danger of upheavals. But you’ll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They’ll do everything to stifle any scandal. They will throw Noah’s cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don’t want to know. They don’t want to find out. They won’t allow themselves to find out.” These astonishing observations about Dallas were captured in Peyrefitte’s memoir, C’était de Gaulle (It Was de Gaulle), which was published in France in 2002, three years after the author’s death. Snippets of the conversation appeared in the U.S. press, but the book was not translated and published in America, and de Gaulle’s remarks about the Kennedy assassination were never fully reported outside of France. A

I believe in freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of the press, freedom of criticism, and freedom of movement. I believe in the goal of equal opportunity, and the right of each individual to follow the calling of his or her own choice, and the right of every individual to an opportunity to develop his or her capacity to the fullest. I believe in the right and duty of every citizen to work for, to expect, and to obtain an increasing measure of political, economic, and emotional security for all. I am opposed to discrimination in any form, whether on the grounds of race, color, religion, political belief or economic status. I believe in the freedom of choice of one’s representatives in government, untrammeled by machine guns, secret police, or a police state. I am opposed to arbitrary and unwarranted use of power or authority from whatever source or against any individual or group. I believe in the government of law, not of men. . . . I consider these principles sacred. I regard them as the basic fabric of our American way of life, and I believe in them as living realities, and not as mere words on paper. . . .

In particular, the CIA was the brainchild of men like Allen Dulles.19 Along with his brother, future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles was a longtime employee of Sullivan and Cromwell, the storied Wall Street law firm whose clients included the world’s largest multinational corporations.

Fosters Gefühlskälte trat krass zutage, als er 1932, während Hitler sich anschickte, die deutsche Regierung zu übernehmen, drei jüdische Freunde, prominente Bankiers, in Deutschland in ihrer Berliner Filiale besuchte.

Die Männer waren in einem Zustand höchster Besorgnis.

Prolog

Die Worte zischten scharf und ungehörig wie ein Fluch durch die Wohlanständigkeit der milden Abendluft.

Der Mann war wieder er selbst: der gesprächige, liebenswerte Allen Welsh Dulles, ein Mann, dessen gesellige Umgangsformen eine Welt finsterer Geheimnisse maskierten.

In der Öffentlichkeit übernahm John F. Kennedy, der frischgewählte Präsident, die Verantwortung für das Fiasko und bedachte Dulles mit gnädigen Worten, während er die Entlassung des alternden Geheimdienstlers nach einem halben Jahrhundert im öffentlichen Dienst unter acht verschiedenen Präsidenten in die Wege leitete.

Nachdem ihm Präsident Eisenhower freie Hand gelassen hatte, als Weltpolizist jedes Aufbegehren, das die amerikanische Vorherrschaft bedrohte, niederzuschlagen, stürzte Dulles’ CIA national gesinnte Regierungen in Afrika, Lateinamerika und im Nahen Osten und nahm sogar lästige Staatsführer verbündeter europäischer Länder ins Visier.

Unterdessen übte sein Bruder John Foster Dulles – Eisenhowers offizieller Außenminister – mit seinen häufigen Predigten über die Niedertracht der Kommunisten und seinen ständigen Drohungen mit atomarer Auslöschung sein Amt mit der unheildräuenden Düsterkeit eines vom Weltgericht besessenen Pfarrers aus.

John Foster Dulles brauchte den Kommunismus so sehr wie die Puritaner die Sünde,

1959 erlag John Foster Dulles rasch einem Magenkrebs.

Nur Allen Dulles, obwohl schon über das Pensionsalter hinaus, stand noch fest an der Spitze, entschlossen, das Ancien Régime nicht untergehen zu lassen.

Als Präsident Kennedy 1961 seine energische neue Präsidentschaft antrat, beschloss er, Allen Dulles als CIA-Chef zu behalten, trotz der offenkundigen Differenzen ihrer Weltsichten.

Selbst während seines stürmischen Werbens um Martha Clover Todd, eine freigeistige Schönheit aus einer prominenten Familie,

Die gleiche Strategiefixierung übertrugen die Dulles-Brüder später auf die Weltpolitik.

John Foster Dulles stieg zum politischen Chefberater Amerikas auf, ein Mann mit der Bestimmung, leise mit Königen, Premierministern und Despoten zu konferieren. Er sah sich selbst gern als Schachmeister der freien Welt.4

Später, als Bruder Allen Dulles während des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf dem europäischen Kontinent als oberster Geheimdienstler der USA operierte, ignorierte er unverfroren Präsident Roosevelts Politik der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Achsenmächte und verfolgte seine eigene Strategie von Geheimverhandlungen mit SS und deutscher Wehrmacht.

Ihm war mehr daran gelegen, den Sicherheitsapparat des Dritten Reiches zu retten und ihn gegen die Sowjetunion zu wenden – die für ihn immer der wahre Feind Amerikas war.

Nach dem Krieg verhalf Dulles einer Reihe berüchtigter Kriegsverbrecher zur Flucht auf der sogenannten Rattinlinie, auf der Nazis von Deutschland nach Italien und von dort weiter in Zufluchtsorte in Lateinamerika, im Nahen Osten und sogar in den Vereinigten Staaten flohen.

Kennedy verweigerte die Ausweitung einer Operation, die er die ganze Zeit für schäbig gehalten hatte.

ein Bruch der Washingtoner Etikette, wo es als schlechter Stil gilt, den Präsidenten zu kritisieren, dem man bis vor kurzem noch gedient hat.

Die Geschichte von Allen Dulles hört nicht auf, Amerika zu verfolgen.

Viele jener Praktiken, die bei den Amerikanern bis heute anfallartige Schübe der Gewissensprüfung auslösen, haben ihren Ursprung in der Zeit von Dulles’ prägender Herrschaft über die CIA.

Experimente mit Gedankenkontrolle, Folter, politischer Mord, außergesetzliche Auslieferungen, die massenhafte Überwachung von US-Bürgern und ausländischen Verbündeten: All das waren zu Zeiten von Dulles’ Herrschaft weithin eingesetzte Mittel.

Dulles war zu großer persönlicher Grausamkeit fähig, gegenüber seinen Vertrauten ebenso wie gegenüber seinen Feinden.

Terror herrschte während solcher Aufstände, und die Angst der Zivilgesellschaft war zu groß, um die Mörder zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen.

Sie begriff nicht, wie sie als junge Frau angesichts der gewaltsamen historischen Ereignisse der damaligen Zeit nur so blind hatte sein können, obwohl das Geschehen doch praktisch durch ihr eigenes Wohnzimmer gefegt war.

Aber es ist sehr wichtig, alles zu verstehen: die Dunkelheit und das Licht.«

Es gab nichts Heimliches an Allen Dulles’ Aktivitäten in der Schweiz der Kriegsjahre, auch wenn er seine Spionageabenteuer hinterher zu verlockenden Geschichten aufbauschte,

Während er auf seinem Schweizer Außenposten diente, mochte Dulles von Nazis umzingelt sein, aber er war auch von alten Freunden umgeben.

Mit der mittelalterlichen Stadt mit Blick auf die schneebedeckten Alpen, aus denen die gletschergrüne Aare zu Tal fließt, verbanden sich für ihn ein Fülle von Erinnerungen – an Botschaftspartys während des Ersten Weltkriegs, an Tennisspiele mit Bällen, die (mit bester Empfehlung seines Bruders Forster) im Diplomatengepäck ankamen, an die umworbenen jungen Sekretärinnen aus den Konsulaten, die ebenso wie die freigeistigen Damen aus der örtlichen Künstlerkolonie das Diplomatenviertel der Stadt belebten.

Eine seiner Affären während des Ersten Weltkriegs nahm ein brutales Ende.2 Sie war eine junge tschechische Patriotin, die an Dulles’ Seite in den Büros der US-Gesandtschaft arbeitete.

Eines Abends führte Dulles die Frau zum Abendessen aus und schlenderte hinterher mit ihr über das Kopfsteinpflaster zu einem vereinbarten Ort, wo er sie den beiden britischen Agenten aushändigte. Sie verschwand für immer.

Unterdessen hörten Schweizer Geheimdienstler, die eng mit ihren Nazikollegen zusammenarbeiteten, Dulles’ Telefongespräche ab.

Nichts davon schien Dulles zu stören, der in einem zerknitterten Regenmantel und einem sorglos in den Nacken geschobenen Fedora auf dem Kopf offen durch die Berner Straßen spazierte.

Bern war ein Spionagebasar, der von Agenten, Doppelagenten, Informanten und Geheimnisverkäufern wimmelte.

Foster, der Kanzleivorstand, entwickelte großes Geschick bei der Strukturierung des Transaktionenkarussells, das massive US-Investitionen zu Industriegiganten wie I. G. Farben und Krupp schleuste.

Foster vertrat weiterhin deutsche Kartelle wie I. G. Farben, während sie in die wachsende Nazikriegsmaschine eingespannt wurden, und half deutschen Industriekonzernen, Zugang zu entscheidenden Rohstoffen zu erhalten. Er spendete Geld für America First, eine Initiative, die dafür warb, die Vereinigten Staaten aus dem sich zusammenbrauenden Sturm über Europa herauszuhalten, und finanzierte eine Versammlung zu Ehren von Charles Lindbergh, dem blonden Helden der Luftfahrt, der sich für den wundersamen deutschen Aufschwung unter Hitler begeisterte. Foster weigerte sich,

das Berliner Büro von Sullivan & Cromwell zu schließen – dessen Anwälte gezwungen wurden, ihre Korrespondenz mit »Heil Hitler« zu unterzeichnen –

Noch lange hegte Foster Sympathie für den Teufel persönlich, Adolf Hitler.

Er könne nicht umhin, von dem Mann beeindruckt zu sein, der sich »aus kleinen Verhältnissen … zum unangefochtenen Führer einer großen Nation aufgeschwungen hat«,12

1939 hatte Eustace Seligman – ein jüdischer Seniorpartner von Sullivan & Cromwell – die Nase so gestrichen voll von Fosters Haltung zu Nazideutschland,

dass er seinen Chef zur Rede stellte und Foster vorhielt, er schade der Reputation der Firma, indem er öffentlich bekunde, »dass Deutschlands Position derjenigen der Alliierten moralisch überlegen« sei.13

Wie sein Bruder brauchte Allen Dulles lange, um die Bösartigkeit der Herrschaft Hitlers zu begreifen.

Und er war »ziemlich beeindruckt« von Joseph Goebbels und hob die »Aufrichtigkeit und Offenheit« des nationalsozialistischen Propagandachefs hervor.

Nachdem Dulles und der ihn begleitende Emissär Norman Davis ins Luxushotel Adlon

Dulles’ verschiedene finanzielle Verbindungen zum Naziregime veranlassten den Präsidenten zu der Anweisung,

Roosevelt stand fest hinter Großbritannien, aber angesichts des Umstands, dass bis zu achtzig Prozent der amerikanisehen Öffentlichkeit gegen einen Eintritt in den europäischen Krieg waren und im Kongress eine ebenso große Abneigung dagegen herrschte, erkannten sowohl Roosevelt wie auch Churchill,

Das Schicksal ganzer Länder stand auf dem Spiel, und so wurde der Schattenkrieg in Amerika immer rabiater.

Stephensons Agenten unternahmen auch verschiedene Einbrüche, etwa in die spanische Botschaft in Washington, wo sie Geheimcodes für die Übermittlung diplomatischer Depeschen stahlen, die zwischen General Francos faschistischer Regierung und Berlin ausgetauscht wurden.

Fleming war ein großer Bewunderer von Stephenson, den er »eine magnetische Persönlichkeit« nannte und »einen der großen Geheimagenten« des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

Jahre später, als James Jesus Angleton und William K. Harvey – zwei Legenden der US-Gegenspionage – nach Attentätern suchten, um den kubanischen Führer Fidel Castro zu töten, holten sie sich Rat bei einem britischen Kollegen namens Peter Wright. »Haben Sie daran gedacht, an Stephenson heranzutreten?«, fragte Wright. »Viele der alten Hasen sagen, er habe solche Sachen während des Kriegs in New York gemacht.«22

Als führende Rechtsberater der amerikanischen Wirtschaftselite waren die Brüder die personifizierten Symbole der »Plutokratie«, gegen die der Präsident wetterte, wenn sich seine populistische Ader Bahn brach. Die Tatsache, dass sie auch mit Finanzinteressen der Nazis verbunden waren, vertiefte Roosevelts Argwohn nur noch mehr.

Indem er Leuten wie John Foster Dulles Männer wie William Douglas auf den Hals hetzte, brachte Präsident Roosevelt die Plutokratie zur Raserei.

Ein Teil des Goldes stammte aus den Zähnen der Opfer der Konzentrationslager oder war aus Kandelabern, Zigarettenetuis und anderer persönlicher Habe jüdischer Familien eingeschmolzen worden.

»Das Schreddern eroberter Naziakten war eine bevorzugte Taktik von Dulles und seinen [Partnern], die nach dem Krieg zurückblieben, um bei der Besatzungsverwaltung Deutschlands mitzuarbeiten«, schrieb Nazijäger John Loftus, der als Staatsanwalt im Justizministerium unter Präsident Jimmy Carter viele Dokumente mit Bezug zu den Dulles-Brüdern sichtete.38

»Das Schreddern eroberter Naziakten war eine bevorzugte Taktik von Dulles und seinen [Partnern], die nach dem Krieg zurückblieben, um bei der Besatzungsverwaltung Deutschlands mitzuarbeiten«, schrieb Nazijäger John Loftus, der als Staatsanwalt im Justizministerium unter Präsident Jimmy Carter viele Dokumente mit Bezug zu den Dulles-Brüdern sichtete.38 Hätte Roosevelt, ihr mächtiger Feind im Weißen Haus, den Krieg überlebt, dann hätten die Dulles-Brüder wegen ihrer Aktivitäten während des Kriegs wohl mit einem Strafverfahren rechnen müssen.

Arthur Goldberg, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof, der als junger Anwalt mit Allen Dulles beim OSS diente, erklärte später, beide Dulles-Brüder seien des Landesverrats schuldig.

Die Casablanca-Konferenz war ein bedeutender Wendepunkt des Kriegs und besiegelte das Schicksal Hitlers und seines Führungszirkels.

Kurz nach der Casablanca-Konferenz hatte Dulles eines späten Winterabends in der Herrengasse 23 eine Unterredung mit einem Agenten von Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, einem geschmeidigen böhmischen Adligen, der seit vielen Jahren immer wieder in Dulles’ gesellschaftlichem Zirkel auftauchte und als »Naziprinz« bekannt war.

So begann Allen Dulles’ Herrschaft des Verrats als Amerikas oberster Geheimagent im nationalsozialistisch besetzten Europa.

Prinz Maximilian Egon von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, der Naziprinz, gehörte zu jenem Teil der europäischen Aristokratie,

Hohenlohe und seine Frau, eine baskische Marquise, hatten einst über ein Imperium von Ländereien geherrscht,