They said he had not.[59] Former CIA director Allen Dulles put their denials in a national security perspective at the January 27 meeting by saying frankly that the CIA employers of an agent “ought not tell it under oath.”[60] Dulles said that the same code of denial (or perjury, a word he didn’t use) applied to the FBI.[61] The January 27 meeting’s transcript is a revelation of how Allen Dulles, one of the master plotters of the Cold War and by logic a prime suspect in JFK’s murder, kept a bemused composure while guiding the circle of distinguished elders through the cover-up.
