secretary of state dean ashes and -- dean acheson through his entire life, he basically believed that no serious threat could ever come from latin america. he wasn't particularly interested in their affairs. he was an adherent of the non-interventionist principle. there was some talk about the addressing of free holdings in guatemala. he squashed that. he ordered george kennan's nasty memoranda to be put in a safe and not opened. it was gone for 25 years until it was inadvertently discovered. throughout his life, he also believe that latin america was not a threat united states. in 1961, he had a face-to-face with john kennedy and he was withering in his criticism about the bay of pigs in terms of john kennedy, saying that the operation should never have been approved. atchison believed the united states should defend western europe, the greatest threat would be from the soviet union. particularly defending west berlin. to conclude, during the 1952 presidential campaign, dwight eisenhower lambasted the truman administration for reneging on promises of economic aid. the truman administ

so acheson had a lot of great options but people think of foreign policy problems as headaches you take a pill and it is gone. but it isn't that kind of pain is the kind that stays with us until death. i think that is true with all of these problems there things you have to resolve over time. you certainly cannot just take a pill. >> i will ask one more question but talking about the cia operations one of the people in my book is a cia officer 95 years old. complete the listed and was stationed in the late '50s of prior to that was in eastern europe as the cia was doing all these airdrops and the kgb neil them as soon as they landed. every program was corrupted so i asked him a month ago why he quit and he told an amazing story of early 1960's that they cannot to manila he had all the chiefs in the region at the meeting with $100 million to drop anti-communist chinese partisans. so then they said we will save so much time and money if we just killer cells. he said i am done. he handed in the letter of resignation that day. it is a colossal waste. it was a disaster. >> so that the u.n. g

dean acheson in general, , we tk a lot about strategic patience.we hear that about people talk about an president trump said the strategic patient is over. dean acheson was he strategic patience guy, and he would tell us aboard at the state department don't just do something, stand there. he didn't want action for the sake of action. he felt like people did too much. and sometimes his line was he said with the chinese revolution we have to wait for the dust to settle and then maybe we can figure out what to do. he got killed for that politically. people just jumped all over it and said he was being too passive. so that's what treatment -- >> turning to the cia now and the documents you able to access, how quickly did the cia start carrying out covert operations in china? >> it was mid 1949. the driver for this is, yet help the nationalist and establish an early system in china. he was a very forceful personality. what he wanted to do is he said, mao is taking over china. what we need to do is establish what he called a belt of resistance around the

because the founders of atlantic council desecration, one of the people who helped found this was dean acheson wrote the book of the international double order. we see that order is being under threat and we see one of the things exposed that most of the threat in the order we created is the advance and the protection and security of democracies. we believe a stable prosperous world depends on building a sustaining democracy, and democracy depends on the sanctity of the boat. in recent years this fundamental quarter to our system of record has come under threat. unprecedented assault in the united states and europe are bringing scrutiny and uncertainty to once and vibrant electoral processes. we at atlantic council have been doing quite a bit of work in countering this information both within our eurasia center and in our digital forensic research lab, cutting edge work. we haven't done yet work in this area so it's a particular pleasure and honor to be associated with this event and the work behind it. in the current geopolitical climate, preserving or in some cases reinstating public faith i