ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040113-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: February 1, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Allen' W. Dulles
ALLEN W. DULLES' death in
Washington Wednesday night
closed out the remarkable career
of a most unusual man who came
from an unusual family.
To readers of recent years, he
would have been best known as the
rather mystical chief of the Central
Intelligence Agency, which he ran
for eight years. But before that he
had been. widely known for a num-
ber of things: Author, international
lawyer, 'diplomat and (in World
War II) a master spy.
In some of the years when he
was CIA director, his brother, the
late John Foster Dulles, was secre-
tary of state. And a sister, Eleanor
Lansing Dulles, for many years
was an Official of the State Depart-
ment.
Dt'f.LT ES DISTINGUISHED him-
self as a top man for the Office of
Strategic Services (our wartime
spy outfit) and thus :made himself
a logical, choice for the CIA. lie
wars deputy chief under President
Truman, raised to chief by Presi
dent Eisenhower, and President
Kennedy was so impressed he re-
appointed Dulles as his first order
of business.
Intelligence on a truly nrofes
sional scale was new stuff to the
American Government, attempted"'
only after World War H. And
Dulles, after he had retired, said
h
t
e CIA had managed to catch up
with other countries in the quality
and scope of its intelligence ser-
But the public, and nearly every-
one in the Government, had to take
his word for it. The President may.
know what the CIA is doing and
low well, and perhaps a . few
others. But so hush-hush is the op-.
ration that nobody really knows
it even that is so.
THE CIA UNDER Dulles' direc-:
ion was involved in the disastrous
uba--a act the CIA, among
thers, probably never will live
-own. And it suffered a blow when
rancis. Powers, Pilot of the V-2
ley plane, was shot down over
By its nature, thQ CIA couldn't
It of its successes, Ind, ft didn't
ell of its failures. Any estimate of
'
ulles
operation of that agency,
But we do know he was a scholar
ivial, witty, fascinating personalf..!
y and that, as a spy chief, he was.
s noncommittal as a log under
Fne,;,hoys in Mission?Impossible.,'
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