“We’re not in the Boy Scouts,” as latter-day CIA Director
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- Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War pp. 270-274 · open book
“We’re not in the Boy Scouts,” as latter-day CIA Director Richard Helms often said. “If we’d wanted to be in the Boy Scouts we would have joined the Boy Scouts.”1 By the time Allen Dulles became CIA director in 1953, almost all resistance within the CIA to using Nazi criminals to accomplish the agency’s mission seems to have evaporated. In the Lebed affair top CIA officials as well as the U.S.