The CIA director’s coat caught fire. Smoke rose from Allen Dulles’s tan tweed jacket as he sat behind his desk, lighting his pipe, talking to a young Porter Goss. Goss was hoping to become a clandestine service officer. This was his final interview. “And I thought, Oh my God, this is part of the test, this is the last test. Do I scream ‘Fire’? Do I dump coffee on him? What do I do?” Goss told an interviewer in 2002. “And so, finally, during the next question — as smoke was billowing out — I just sort of stared at his coat with a look of alarm. And that’s all that ever happened, and I never knew whether it was part of the test. But, anyway, I got the job.”Full Story