as an intelligence officer as a way of preventing greater conflicts among nations.
I was often asked, early in my career, how it was that I, the son of a YMCA officer, had joined CIA? My answer to that was that I did not see intelligence work as “a dirty business.” The most effective relations between CIA case officers and foreign agents were based not on coercion but on trust—and produced intelligence that could keep us out of miscalculations that might well otherwise lead to war.
By the end of my final college semester, I had filled out the endless CIA forms, had been interviewed secretly, and had passed the polygraph. I was ordered to report to Washington a day or two after I took my last examination at Williams and was granted leave to return to campus for the graduation ceremony in June 1951.
I graduated cum laude, with no romantic interests whatsoever. My heart had been badly bruised at the end of my junior year, and I was then truly “fancy free.”
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