Tim Weiner,NPR
This morning, we're going to talk approximately three of the men who helped create the CIA. At the dawn of the Cold War, and Allen Dulles,Richard Bissell and Frank Wisner were considered daring, imaginative and brilliant. Under them, and in the 1950s,America's spy agency launched audacious operations. It overthrew foreign governments, even attempted to assassinate foreign leaders, and actions that are now recalled more with embarrassment than pride. JOHN YDSTIE,host: One of those originals, Frank Wisner, or was a lawyer,a World War II spy, and a man who by the close of the 1950s would go crazy. In a new history...
Source: realclearhistory.com