ALLEN DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R000100150018-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 23, 1951
• Content Type: PREL

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AUG 231951
Allen W. Dulles of New York City was today named Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence to succeed William H. Jackson, of Princeton, New Jersey,
who resigned that post due to the pressure of private business. Mr. Jackson
will continue with CIA as special assistant to the director on a part-time
basis. He has been Deputy Director since October 1950.
Both Dulles and Jackson were members of the three-man board that in
January 1949 prepared for the National Security Council a report on the
national intelligence system including a review of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
A one-time career diplomat, New York attorney, and wartime chief of
the Office of Strategic Services in Switzerland, Mr. Dulles joined Central
Intelligence in November 1950 as Deputy Director for Plans. He will be
succeeded in his post by Frank G. Wisner of Washington, wartime naval
intelligence and OSS officer, and a CIA official since 1948.
(Biographical data attached)
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Chief of the Swiss-based OSS mission which during World War II helped nego-
tiate the German surrender in Italy, Mr. Dulles was born in Watertown, New York
in 1893. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1914, in 1916 was awarde
his M. A. and in 1926 received a law degree from George Washington University.
After teaching English for one year in Allahabad, India, Mr. Dulles joined
the diplomatic serviiie in 1916. He served in Vienna and then in Berne before
being appointed to the American Commission to negotiate the peace treaty after
World War I. Following a brief tour of duty in Berlin, Mr. Dulles was assigned
to the Department of State in Washington and in 1920 to the American mission to
Constantinople. Upon his return to the United States in 1922, he was named
chief of the division of Near Eastern Affairs of the Department of State. As
U. S. delegate to the International Conference on Arms Traffic, Mr. Dulles went
to Geneva in 1925 and again in 1926 as a member of the American delegation to
the Preparatory Disarmament Commission.
In 1926 he resigned from the foreign service to join the law firm of Sullivan
and Cromwell in New York city. Thereafter he served as legal advisor to the
American delegation at the Three-Power Naval Conference in Geneva in 1927 and as
legal advisor to the American delegation at the general Disarmament Conferences
Am 1932 and 1933.
He is the author of two books, "Can America Stay Neutral?" with Hamilton
Fish Armstrong in 1939, and "Germany's Underground" in 1947. In 1946, he was
elected president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Dulles is married to the former Clover Todd, has three children includ-
ing a son in the Marine Corps, and makes his home in New York city.
He is the brother of John Foster Dulles, special representative of the
President for the Japanese peace treaty.
WILLIAM HARDING JACKSON
Wartime deputy intelligence officer to General Omar N. Bradley, Mr. Jackso-,
was born in 1901 in Nashville, Tenn. He is a graduate of Princeton, 1924, and
of the Harvard Law School, 1928. After two years with the New York city law
firm of Cadwalad.er, Wickersham and Taft, Mr. Jackson joined the staff of Cart(-Ir;
Ledyard and Milburn in 1930 to become a partner of that firm in 1934. Commis.
sioned a captain in the U. S. Army Air Force in 1942, Mr. Jackson went to Lone-r.
in January 1943 as assistant military air attache for anti-submarine intelli~:e-o
In August 1943 he became chief of strategic intelligence for General Jacob L.
Devers and with the formation of General Brad].erts 12th Army Group, joined that
staff as deputy G-2. In August 1945 he was separated from the army in the rank
of Colonel. On his return to New York, Mr. Jac.scn joined. the in~rrestment firm
of J. H. Whitney & Company as managing partner. In 1948 he was named by the
National Security Council to survey the national intelligence system together
with Allen W. Dulles and Mathias F. Correa. On October 1, 1950 Mr. Jackson was
appointed dg t,y d.i.rector of Central Intelligence.
A wartime intelligence and OSS officer, Wisner was born in 1909 in Laurel,
Mississippi. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1931 and from
the University law school there three years later. In 1934 he joined and later.
became a partner in the New York city law firm of Carter, Ledyard, and Milbu.1r1. m
Commissioned an officer in naval intelligence in 1941, Mr. Wisner served with
)SS from 1943 until his discharge in 1946 in the rank of Commander. During that
period of duty he served in Africa, the Middle East, in the Balkans, in France,
and in Germany. Mr. Wisner again left his law firm in 1947 to serve as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas. In 1948 he joined the Central
Intelligence Agency.
He is married to the former Mary Ellis Knowles, has four children, and
makes his home in Washington, D. C.
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