"The evidence is overwhelming," said Director Allen Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, "that the Soviets intend to use nuclear blackmail as a major weapon to promote their objectivesnamely, to spread Communism through out the world." Dulles' rare public statement was read to reporters as he emerged from a closed-door session with 45 U.S. Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since...
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