ALLEN DULLES---'CLOAK AND DAGGER' CHIEF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010021-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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-Allen Dulles `Cloak and Dagger' Chief
Secretary of State Dulles' Younger Brother, Accused by Russians in Berlin Riots, Had Dramatic Role in
CPYRGHT World War II in Hitler Death Plot and Surrender of Nazi Army in Italy
t c fl LOAK 'AND DAGGER"
Dulles, younger brother of
our secretary of state, "Striped
Pants" Dulles, was back in the
news last week. The Soviet con-
trolled east German radio charged
that Allen Welsh Dulles, director
of the United States central intel-
ligence agency (CIA), had touched
off the riots ancY s Mies in east
Berlin.
American denials were prompt.
Officials of the United States high
commission in Germany said that
the younger Dulles had "not been
within 3,000 miles of Berlin for
many months." Washington re-
ported him at home in the capital.
Whether or not the CIA chief
touched off the fireworks in Ber-
lin, it is certain that he watched
the display with keener insight
than almost anyone else on our
side. Knowing what goes on inside
the Communist lands is his job,
and one to which he brings re-
markable talents and experience.
As long as two years ago he stated
publicly that the Russian and sat-
ellite peoples could be split from
the Kremlin by psychological war-
fare, and cited "the people who
are nearest the danger point" in
Berlin and Vienna as the in o s t
promising foes of the Communists.
By the "hush hush" nature of
his work, Allen gets much less ink
in the newspapers than his cabinet
member brother, John Foster. Al-
len is the first civilian to direct our
national intelligence system. His
head is packed with more explo-
sive secret information than any
other man's in Washington, not ex-
cepting the president, whom he
briefs regularly. He participates
in all deliberations of the national
security council, top policy making
body, and his influence is said to
be as great as that of any cabinet
officer or general.
Wrote Book on Boers
at Age of 8
the one he knows most about-the
inner workings of the CIA and its
momentous secrets. Those must
remain a closed book, even to his
w if e Clover, his two daughters
and his son. I i
Allen gave a precocious sign of
at the age of 8, when he wrote a
32 page essay on the Boer war. Its
concluding sentence was: "I hope
the Boers will win the war, for the
Boers are in the right and the Brit-
ish are in the wrong." When some-
one pointed out that he had failed
to capitalize the w o r d British,
young Allen replied haughtily that
he "wanted to take the British
down a peg." His doting grandfa-
ther had the essay pubished as a
book, spelling errors and all. Much-
to everyone's delight the little vol-
ume sold 4,000 copies and earned
$1,000, which Allen donated to
Boer relief.
He got into the spy business
right after graduation from
Princeton. At 23, as a minor func-
tionary in the United States em-
bassy in Vienna, he was given the
mission of contacting dissident
forces'in Austria who were trying
to upset the nation's World war
entente with Germany.
He rose steadily in the diplo-
matic service until 1926 when he
resigned in protest against the in-
adequate salary ($8,000 a year)
and turned to the study of law.
He entered a leading international
law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, in
which brother Foster was a part-
ner.
Mysterious `George'
Comes to Call
Allen Welsh Dulles, spy boss.
equipment, b e s i d e s his well. Dulles supplied our high con-
stocked head, was a spef;ial code
nand with the earliest reports on
But it was not until World War 1 book for secret radio Comrnunica- robot bomb installations. His in-
II that Allen really distinguished' tions to Washington and American formation on the Nazi V weapons
himself in the undercover work field headquarters, and a brief- led to the bombing of the research
which was to bring him to the top case crammed with several thou- cenies and launching stations,
of probably the largest national in- sand dollars in small bills to grease and get the enemy program back
telligence service in the world, a the channels of information. at least six critical months.
vast secret organization of some Bern seethed *ft h international He gave.the location of a secret
15,000 persons. intrigue like an E. Phillips Oppen- radio transmitter in the German
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Allen
r, is by ads ` ntiirnus and brainy band re- nations skulked through its submarine raids on Allied ship-
nouer ban brother 60, five
g eruited by Maj. Gen. William J.
tar the more colorful and person- Donor a n in 1940, under secret streets, held midnight rendezvous pang'
able of the two. His career i:-- aur'iori c from President Roose- in closely curtained rooms and de- He revealed German plans to
packed with episodes of wartrr serted parks. trap a large troop convoy about to
to set up the office of strategic sail from New York, in time for
adventure, in contrast to the mn services (OSS) which Dulles jok- anL to one night Dulles received American officials to reroute the
prosaic, although solid, a c c o n: ingly called "The. Department of important visitor at his apart- ment ships.,
hlishments of his brother. . His caller known onl
"
y as
The functions of "George," ,
Both men are intellectuals, who,1 Dirty Tricks.
was a squat, bald He warned of Franco's prepara-
the OSS were espionage, sabotage headed, belligerent. German, a lions to smuggle q
ihihed an atmosphere of books large quantities
-1 culture in their father's Pres- and intelligence work behind the minor official in Hitler's of badly needed tungsten to :per-
enemy lines. foreign
Icrian parsonage in Watertown, office. It was quickly man war plants.
As American forces launched made clear He unmasked the sinister Cicero
I ' Y. their first attack on the coast of that George hated the Nazis.
IIen is a lithe and active 6 foot- Africa in November, 1942, Dulles During the next two years, Diello, Nazi spy who wag valet
,rho wears a natty close cropped George sent to Bern, Switzerland to ge sent more than 2,000 secret
mustache, smokes a pipe and set up an OSS beachhead. documents from the German for.
u :iE;hts in tennis, golf and fishing. With the e tapo breath hot eign office to Dulles. This was the
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I kqqd story, and converses br cant- the French border just as e s rets hat eA ies had i e
on almost any subject except i the during the,war.
the Nazis were closing it off. His
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PYRGHT
to the British ambassador at. Ar It was" to Dulles' agents in Ni
kara. Ilan that the Germans in April,
He,reported the results of Allied 1945, .gave word that they were
air raids on German cities. i ready to surrender, a full wee!
It would be hard to ,over es- before the collapse of 'the Nazi'
timate the value of . secret regime in Berlin:
information that Dulles channeled After these wartime feats of
to Washington and our military derring-do, which won him a chest
from Switzerland. He established full of medals from Qur own and
!close liaison with the leaders of foreign governments, Dulles set..
the German underground (code tied back into private law practice,
name: `Breakers"), which in- with time out for5`such side jobs
eluded generals of the Wehrmacht as,advising Thomas E. Dewey on
and high civilian officials of the foreign policy in .the.1948 cam-
third Reich. H* made a highly val. 4 paign, and serving as chairman
Gable contact i1r'Qugh Hans Bernd of a three man group commis-
Gisevius in, early 1943. Gisevius sinned by Washington to survey
was a meml5er of the Abwehr, the the United States iiiTtelligence
German ebunterintelligence rv- system, leading to the setting up
cc, and a ringleader in the n- of CIA.
,piracy, to assassinate Hitler. In 1950, he was lured back into
Why P]{ A sirlSt intelligence worlcc with''th CIA,
$` becoming its deputy director a
Hitler Failed year later, and succeeding Gen.
Walter Bedell Smith as its chief
Dulles ottgftt "to- aids, the con last February. [
spirators by urging the American Some 50 years ago the brothers
government to modify its "uncon- Dulles used to sail a mall catboat
ditional surrender" policy in the on Lake Ontario, with John Foster
event that anti-Nazis should wrest as helmsman, and Allen' as look-'
control of Germany from Hitler. out. Their positions are much the
He was unable to get such coyrces- same today, in, navigating our for-
nns, and has said Lhat. l.his vac eign policy. But a relative pointed,
;i out this difference their 'esponsible for the failure of the aments. "Foster wants to reduce
anti-Nazi rebellion, things to clear compass directions.
A bomb was, exploded at Hit- Allen feels out the currents and
ler's feet in hia'ffieeret headquar- moves on a more complicated
ters in East Prussia on July 20, course."
1944. He was' seriously Wounded, Watertown to Paris to India,
but he goc out alive. The failure Bern to Milan, to Berlili* Allen
of this "'`'pissassfnation attempt Dulles has indeed followed a com-
threw the otiien,[elements of the plicated and mysterious course,
plot into confusion. The Wehr- and his next destination, if any-
rnacht elements which had been one knows, is stamped "top se-
poised to, take 'ovey the govern- rret." H. RUSSELL. AUSTIN.
ment ceners in a Iin were held
in their barracks, find the(, Nazi
regimecontinued to'its fiery end.
"Naturally,". Dulles told a re-
porter later, " I had tied off Gen.
Eisenhower in'A,dvan about the,
bomb plot.... I don't know wheth-
or the Allied high command was
waiting for the outcome of the
;soup d'etat and whether that was
i he reason the St. Lo offensive was
held up.
"I do know that Field Marshal
on Kluge, German ebtknander in'
chief in west, C _dgwn to
his ow t lfin at the Falaise
gap to nog tiate an armi ce with
Gen. Patton, but lost l'nerve on
finding that Hitler ha4 escaped
alive. When von uge,-was or-
dered to Berlin h $new' the jig
was up:. e bo ded s~ p'lane in
Faris andilled self with poi-
on, ort the flight to Metz."
Late in 1944,Dulies established
?cret channels into the high com-
ruandof the German forces who
were Stubbornly resisting as they
ret at[ed before the United States
w;driny up the Italian boot. To
this "Operation Sunrise,"
engineered a revolt in the
village of Can'ipione, re-
thie Fascists with a pro.
regime. This enabled his
agents to use the border town
!port of entry into Italy,
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