Correspondence B, 1960-1963

Stock investments with G. Edward Brooking, Jr., Joseph Bryan (Jefferson Standard and Southern Industries), John H. Bush (European breweries), Hillyer Brown (Middle East and oil wells), Thomas Winfield Blackwell (Annual Report on Gulf Coast Drilling), Eugene R. Black Sr., (discussion of the Middle East), and George E. Brewer (Conservation Foundation). Other correspondents include Richard M. Bissell, Jr., (Joseph Alsop article praising Bissell, and news of Wisner’s resignation from the C.I.A. 1962), C. Tracy Barnes, Samuel Pope Brewer (Brewer’s ex-wife Eleanor in Russia with H. A. R. “Kim” Philby), Alastair Balfour (grouse shooting properties), Thomas W. Braden (former colleague at the C.I. A. and fund raiser for St. Antony, Oxford), W. T. M. “Thomas” Beale (Minister of Economic Affairs), Michael and Lady Pamela Berry (retirement of Allen W. Dulles and Wisner suggests an interview for them with Dulles), Wisner’s new position as Special Assistant to John McCone, Director of the C.I.A., Allen W. Dulles (Wisner criticism of The Times and Lou Herren), British Nursing Associations, John A. Bross (Deputy to the Director of the C.I.A.), David and Evangeline Bruce, and Robert Baker (Wisner praise for President Kennedy’s appointments of Walter Rostow, Charles Bohlen, and hope that David Bruce would become Ambassador to the United Kingdom following John Hay Whitney.)