Dulles, Allen Welsh
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Dulles, Allen Welsh (1893–1969), lawyer, foreign service officer, and intelligence official.The grandson of one secretary of state and nephew of another, Dulles entered the foreign service in 1914. He spent World War I collecting intelligence in Bern, Switzerland, and subsequently assisted the U.S. delegation to the Versailles Conference and served in several embassies before resigning from the State Department in 1926. A Wall Street lawyer until the United States entered World War II, Dulles enlisted in the Office of Strategic Services. Returning to Bern, he earned a reputation as a master spy and covert operator, especially after his Operation Sunrise produced the secret surrender of Germany's forces in Italy without Soviet Knowledge.
In 1947, Dulles helped to draft the section of the
National Security Act (1947) creating
the Central Intelligence Agency, and in 1951 he became its deputy director for plans, charged with covert operations and clandestine collection. These were the priorities of 1953–61, his tenure as CIA director. Encouraged by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and supported by his brother
John Foster Dulles, the secretary of state, he presided over the overthrow of governments in Iran and Guatemala, and the initiation of
U‐2 spy planes to overfly the Soviet Union. He neglected research and analysis, however, and the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba culminated a string of failures. Forced out by President Kennedy, Dulles's final government assignment was to investigate Kennedy's assassination as a member of the Warren Commission.
[See also
Cold War: Domestic Course;
Cuba, U.S. Military Involvement in.]
Bibliography
John Ranelagh , The Agency: The Rise and Fall of the CIA, 1986.
Peter Grose , Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles, 1994.
Richard H. Immerman
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Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.
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; ...disappeared, ah well, c'est la vie. That was Allen Dulles' C.I.A. O Great White Case Officer, what has become of your creation? Allen Welsh Dulles' career began, astonishingly, before America...
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; ...the second son of John Foster Dulles, Secretaiy of State under President Eisenhower. Avery's uncle, Allen Welsh Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence...strongly Protestant His grandfather, Allen Macy Dulles, was a Presbyterian...
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Eleanor L. Dulles.(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 11/4/1996; 537 words
; ...Knollwood military retirement home. She was 101. Mrs. Dulles, who was sometimes called "the Mother of Berlin...reputation even though her two brothers, John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles, held much higher rank in the American government...
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Obituary: Mary Bancroft
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; ...chief of America's Central Intelligence agency. Allen Welsh Dulles had served as an American secret agent in Switzerland...when, early in December 1942, she was introduced to Allen Dulles over a drink at the ultra-discreet Hotel Baur am...
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Underground, ground under Godfrey Hodgson on the covert career of a master spook
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; gentleman spy: The Life of Allen Welsh Dulles Peter Grose Andre Deutsch pounds 20 Over the Easter...a 24- year-old secretary of the embassy called Allen Welsh Dulles took a telephone call. Would he care to meet the...
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Underground, ground under
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; gentleman spy: The Life of Allen Welsh Dulles Peter Grose Andre Deutsch pounds 20 Over the Easter...a 24-year-old secretary of the embassy called Allen Welsh Dulles took a telephone call. Would he care to meet the...
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EMBASSY ROW.(World)(Embassy Row)
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; ...New York's Fordham University. Dulles, a staunch supporter of John Paul...morality, is the son of John Foster Dulles, U.S. secretary of state during the Cold War, and nephew of Allen Welsh Dulles, CIA director during the 1950s...
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Allen Welsh Dulles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Allen Welsh Dulles , 1893-1969, U.S. public official...Watertown, N.Y.; brother of John Foster Dulles . He entered (1916) diplomatic service...director of the Central Intelligence Agency , Dulles became director in 1953. Under his direction...
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Dulles, Allen Welsh
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Dulles, Allen Welsh (1893–1969), lawyer...secretary of state and nephew of another, Dulles entered the foreign service in 1914...Peter Grose , Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles , 1994. Richard H. Immerman
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Dulles, John Foster
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...x2010;Communist nations. Nor was Dulles a reckless saber‐rattler...presidency. Moreover, although Dulles was a covert operations enthusiast like his brother, Allen Welsh Dulles , the CIA director, he opposed...
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The Central Intelligence Agency
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...Walter Bedell Smith (1950–53) and Allen Welsh Dulles (1953–61), the CIA became a powerful...Headquarters were moved to Langley, Virginia, in 1963. Allen Dulles, former OSS officer, deputy director, and brother...
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Covert Operations
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...major part of his foreign policy. The CIA, led by Allen Welsh Dulles , undertook a variety of clandestine activities at presidential...government of Indonesia. During the Eisenhower‐Dulles era, clandestine collection and covert action accounted...
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