Month: February 2024
It’s a fair description of #AllenDulles to say that for an entire generation he was the face and public persona of the #CIA. A capable writer, one who didn’t mind the bombastic drone of the Sunday talk-show circuit, Dulles spoke for an entire culture. He could be said to be the rival of #JEdgarHoover of the #FBI, in terms of popular culture. Odd, then, that #JFK understood this quite well about Hoover— “You don’t fire God,” as he famously remarked when others suggested Hoover’s removal from office— but he didn’t understand that where Dulles was concerned.
(Obviously Hoover had a tremendous capacity for blackmail; that helped him cultivate support for decades. But the same could be said for Dulles, and that fact didn’t help him, professionally, at the end of his career.)
When Allen Dulles’funeral took place in 1969, the CIA director at the time, #RichardHelms, escorted the widow; but it was the Agency’s counterintelligence chief, #JamesAngleton, who carried the ashes.)
— @timfattig Feb 25, 2024
OTD Feb 25, 1955 Secret Berlin Tunnel completed. Intercepted more than 500,000 calls during the 11 months and 11 days it was in operation.
After months of training in the harsh depths of Norway’s arctic winter, Commandos of @45CdoGp embark @RFAMountsBay in preparation for the @NATO Exercise #SteadfastDefender24.
3/ Russia’s attacks on Ukraine since 2014 are part of the Kremlin’s larger effort to destroy NATO & break the ties between the US & Europe so Russia could regain the its dominant role in world affairs.
How We Got Here With Russia: The Kremlin’s Worldview https://t.co/D1Z7wab2gG
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) February 24, 2024
