For the President's Eyes Only Signed Christopher Andrew CIA Hardcover HC 1st Ed

Description: Signed to fellow historian David Rudgers. Very good condition, apparently unread. Only imperfection is small tear on back of dust jacket. “For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush” by Christopher Andrew (Harper Collins, 1995) Christopher Andrew (1941- ) is a Cambridge University professor and Britain’s pre-eminent intelligence historian. Page 271: The successful running of Penkovsky during the Berlin crisis enabled Dulles to step down as DCI in November 1961 with the sense that, at least in the Oval Office, the agency's reputation had been partly restored after the debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Shortly before he left, the CIA moved into its present headquarters at Langley, Virginia, whose large white marble lobby contains a bas-relief of Dulles. Kennedy's first choice as the next DCI was his brother Robert, but he quickly realized that such an appointment would make impossible plausible denial of White House involvement in covert operations. Instead, perhaps intent on securing conservative support for controversial policies, he appointed the Republican John A. McCone, a former businessman and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. McCone's interests, unlike Dulles's, were chiefly in intelligence analysis. Ray Cline, whom he made DDI, believed that "he absorbed more from complex briefings than any senior official I have ever worked with." Sherman Kent, head of the Board of National Estimate, took to asking agency officials the color of McCone's eyes. The answer was usually some variant of "ice-cold blue." In fact, McCone's eyes were dark brown. "But," replied one of those who gave the wrong answer, "his mind and persona were steely blue-eyed." The president retained a greater faith in covert action than his new DO. The humiliation of the Bay of Pigs had not shaken Kennedy's determination to topple Castro. On the contrary, it made him determined to find more effective and more secret ways of doing it. In June 1961, after a review of U.S. paramilitary capabilities, "with special attention to the lessons which can be learned from the recent events in Cuba," he replaced Eisenhower's 5412 Committee with a more powerful Special Group (5412).

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