Allen Dulles Quotes
I wouldn’t worry if there were a few casualties or a few martyrs behind the iron curtain…. You have got to have a few martyrs. Some people have to get killed.
He was the Deputy Director when he made this statement. He had managed Covert Operations before that.
Allen Welsh Dulles, 1893-1969, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Secret Central Intelligence Agency Meeting, Princeton Inn, Princeton, NJ, May 1952
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This was a big factor that made the Red Scare so damaging.
He was a virulent anti communist and an opponent and foe of Chiang Kai-shek who he regarded as too moderate.
This was one of the first of the world communist leaders who had concluded that the Russian communist state and its revolution had failed. Russia of 1923 was perceived as too dictatorial and not democratic enough. At the same time they thought Russia had not only sold out the democratic nature of communism but also the economic as well by having too much private property and making economic deals with Western capitalists giving concessions of all kinds to Krupp and other major Multinational companies to try and develop international trade and investment. Politically the communist critics thought Russian communism too left wing and undemocratic and economically too right wing and capitalistic.
The PBSUCCESS unit was attempting to thwart the Communist movements in Guatemala.
The CIA, like most intelligence services, attract some unusual and abnormal people who in many settings might be considered mentally unbalanced or sociopathic. Many intelligence service operatives are often recruited for some of these qualities. This is always a risk for the agency both from the potential scandal such as when the Central Intelligence Agency utilized war criminals at the end of the Second World War and the unbalanced agent going off on his own. Pope flew unopposed Central Intelligence Agency armed planes over communist controlled Northeastern Indonesia, attacking both military and civilian targets. He was captured and although sentenced to death, spent 4 years in jail before his release was negotiated while the United States government denied that we had anything to do with the death and destruction that the CIA planes produced.
Harriman at that time was the United States Ambassador to Russia and one of President Roosevelt’s closest advisers. There were those who claimed that the Roosevelt administration was very naïve about the potential danger of Stalin. This statement as well as others like it, show that the administration was not so naïve and ignorant.
Mensheviks were the opposition political party to the Bolsheviks. Lenin used Ethnic Cleansing and deportation to gain control of areas where Mensheviks had and established following. It was so ruthlessly effective, that shortly thereafter the Mensheviks were no a significant force and the entire country was Bolshevik. Today, few people even know what a Menshevik was.
Allen Welsh Dulles was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was fired by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco.
