A review by ferris_mx
The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World by Allen W. Dulles

3.0

A reasonably descriptive account of the intelligence collection side of the CIA from the peak of the cold war. However, Dulles steers clear of intervention activities, especially including Bay of Pigs, which happened on his watch. That's fully cheating. Towards the end, Dulles ruminates about his wish that the government could circumscribe the freedom of the press, which was gross. Then he put the cherry on the sundae by advising against using anyone with immorality like affairs in intelligence work, and of course explicitly no homosexuals. This book was written in 1963, and it was OK to write and publish that the government should not hire homosexuals, amazing.