DULLES FAMILY STANDS ON ITS OWN MERITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090067-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: February 23, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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Letters to the Editor
Dulles Family Stands
on Its Own Merits
DON
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her column of Feb. 18
refers slightingly to the Dulle
family and implies nepotism in he
remarks: "All those who rile at th
name `Dulles' may just as well qui
There are not only Secretar
of State John Foster Dulles but rel
atives he has taken care of: Brothe
Allen Dulles, also a hangover fro
the Truman regime who is directo
of Central Intelligence, a big whee
in our national security programs
and Eleanor Lansing Dulles, siste
of the Secretary now a special as
sistant to the director of Germa
Affairs in the State Department.'
This is a most unfair statement
John Foster Dulles is one of the
most able and hardest-working Sec
retarles of State we have ever had
As for being a member of a famil
with a tradition of service to ou
country that is something to b
proud of, not to be scorned.
As for "the relatives he has take
care of" Allen Dulles, according t
"Who's Who," entered the Foreig
Service of the State Department i
1916! He resigned from the Stat
Department several years later t
resume private law practice bu
joined Government service agai
during the war, and served bril
liantly overseas with the Office o
Strategic Services.
It was Walter Bedell Smith wh
chose Allen Dulles as his chief as
sistant for"tfie newly organized Cen
tral Intelligence Agency after th
war and then. recommended tha
Align.Dulii s"be appointed to hea
the agency when he, Bedell Smith
went to State Department as Unde
Secretary. At any rate Allen Dulles
presents job has nothing whateve
to do with his brother's job.
Nor has his sister Eleanor's pres
ent job as assistant to the chief o
German Affairs. Eleanor Dulles i
an outstanding economist. She ha
made a special study of Europea
and particularly Austrian and Ger-
man economic problems and at on
time taught economics at Bryn
Mawr.
She is the author of numerous
publications on economic subjects
Her service with the Government
goes back nearly 20 years. Sine
1945 Miss Dulles has been with th
State Department except for a brie
interval when she was `loaned' t
the National Resources Board.
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