(1893-04-07)April 7, 1893 Watertown, New York, U.S.
Died
January 29, 1969(1969-01-29) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place
Green Mount Cemetery
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Martha "Clover" Todd
(m. 1920)
Children
3
Relatives
John Foster Dulles (brother) John Welsh Dulles (grandfather) Miron Winslow (great-grandfather) Harriet Winslow (great-grandmother) Avery Cardinal Dulles (nephew) Dulles family
Education
Princeton University (BA) George Washington University (LLB)
Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌlɪs/DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was fired by President John F. Kennedy.
Dulles was a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the Kennedy's assassination. A conspiracy theory suggesting that Dulles and the CIA were somehow involved in Kennedy's assassination and its potential cover up in the Warren Commission have been subject to popular debate among historians, political commentators and conspiracy theorists. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that the CIA was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.[1]
Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration and is the namesake of Dulles International Airport.[2]
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reciprocated by sending [future Director of Central Intelligence, DCI] Allen Welsh Dulles to liaise with BSC in the Rockefeller Center". According to Thomas...
resulting in brutal dictatorships that favored U.S. interests. CIA Director AllenDulles was responsible for overseeing covert operations across the world, and...
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liaison with counterpart organizations in allied countries. In 1954, AllenDulles promoted Angleton to chief of the Counterintelligence Staff. As chief...
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opponent of the Nazi regime, he served as a liaison in Zürich between AllenDulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces...
Strategic Services, and both worked and had a romantic relationship with AllenDulles. Her most important work was with Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German military...
tried to "find a way to control the human brain". In 1953, CIA director AllenDulles appointed Gottlieb to "run the covert program". In Poisoner in Chief...
renamed the Directorate of Plans. First headed by AllenDulles, Wisner succeeded Dulles in 1951 when Dulles was named Director of Central Intelligence. Wisner...
later schemes to disrupt, the secret negotiations between Karl Wolff and AllenDulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between...
the historian David Talbot reignited claims that Field was set up by AllenDulles in order to create paranoia designed to undermine the Soviet Union. During...
assassination of President Kennedy, including Kennedy's firing of CIA director AllenDulles, Kennedy's refusal to provide air support to the Bay of Pigs invasion...
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