With the collusion of Lucian Truscott, Burke simply played beat-the-clock for the next several days, steering clear of the secretary of state and his retinue until it was safe to report back that there wasn’t enough time to organize a riot. But that encounter with John Foster proved a kind of breaking point for the CIA man. Shortly after the close of the ministers’ meeting, Burke was the apparent author of a secret cable sent to the director of the CIA, John Foster Dulles’s brother, Allen. Even in an agency where candor was theoretically welcomed, the critique of John Foster’s thwarted scheme
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