FORMER MASTER SPY DIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040118-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
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April 7. 1893 in Watertown
,N.Y., -one of the live children n
proficiency-lie was to publish
six books-by writing a book on
the Boer War at the age of 8. His
maternal grandfather, John F.
Foster, secretary of state under
President Benjamin Harrison,
was so impressed by it that he
had it published,
"I hope the Boers will this
war," young Dulles' concluding
sentence read, "because the
Boers are in the right and the
british in the wrong." In a foot-
note, he explained that he used
the small "h" because he didn't
like the British and thought
they should be taken down a
peg.
was graduated from
Princeton in 1914, then taught
English in a church mission
school in lahabad, India, before
r^turning to Princeton for a
master's degree.
Mr. Dulles entered the Diplo-
matic Service in 1916 with the
idea of making it a career. In
the early stages of World War I
he was assigned to Vienna, but
when the United States entered
the conflict he was transferred
to Berne, Switzerland, Some of
the contacts he formed then
were to prove useful in World
War Ii.
Mr. Dulles served on the U.S.
delegation to the Paris Peace
Conference and later served in
Berlin and Turkey before return-
ing to Washington as chief of the
Division of Near Eastern Affairs
- he used part of his time here
to earn a law degree from
George Washington University.
In 1920, . he married Clover
Todd, the, daughter of a Colum-
bia University professor.
A growing family - two
daughters and a son - com-
bined with the low pay of foreign
service - officers decided Mr.
Dulles against a career with the
government. He resigned from
the State Department in 1926 to
join his brother's law firm, Sulli-
van and Cromwell in New York
City. There was one brief politi-
cal fling, an unsuccessful bid for
a Republican House nomination.
During his 13 years' law prac-
1 ake off on the eve of a summit
onference.
Reds Torpedo Summit
Russian Premier Nikita S.
hrushchev used the U2 incident
s an excuse for torpedoing the
aris conference with Eisenhow-
er. The talk's never got off the
round and U.S.-Russian rela-
een going on for some time and
ere thought to be impr"gnable
r ecause the planes were too high
i o be hit. Mr. Dulles was criti-
ized for allowing Powers to
aissance flight over the heart
f Russia-confessed during a
oscow circus trial that he was
CIA agent. The flights had
The CIA's role in planning the sastrous Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban refugees has been
etty well established. CIA
gents played a heavy role in
cruiting, training and financ-
i g the refugees. But def?ndcrs
of Mr. Dulles were always quick
point out that. President Ken-
edy-who publicly- acknowl-
ged that he was to blame for
e operation-was the only per-
n who could have stopped it.
1 he groundwork of the invasion
as laid during the Eisenhower
cars.
In the other incident, Francis
Cary Powers-shot down by a
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h ve had a tough time. A husky
6- oot, 200-pounder, Mr. Dulles
k (pt himself in top shape. He
c ntinued to play tennis until
last year-though limiting him-
s f to doubles matches for the
p st eight years or so-and shot
a oinmendable game of golf.
Mr. Dulles was a man of enor-
n us patience and as CIA direc-
t he sought to school his
a ents in the art of taking pains
th their work. Most intehii
g nee was readily available, he
s essed, but the key was evalu-
a ing it properly.
"You still need people with the
c aracteristies of the cloak-
a d-dagger man," he once said,
" ut we don't want him to act in
a cloak-and-dagger yay.
His tenure as CIA director was
f irly quiet-perhaps for that
r ason-though critics began
s Aping at him in the last year of
s term for his role in two
c ises: the Cuban invasion and
t e U2 incident.
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Early in World War II, Maj. or Lansing Dulles of the Distri t,
Gen. William J. Donovan re- a former diplomat who kept r
cruited him for the Office of maiden name for professio al
Strategic Services - America's reasons, Mrs. Margaret d-`
wartime intelligence agency and wards of Rye, N.Y., and M s.
Operating mostly out of Switz- ford, N.,Y., and six grandel ii
iar with most of the Hitler as-
sassination plots before some o
the participants. In a later book
he noted that some German gem
erals were arranging a coup t
overthrow the Fuehrer in 193
when British Prime Minister Ne
ville Chamberalin's "capitula
tion" at Munich stopped them
Several of the later assassina
tion attempts - all of them fail
ures and most of them accompa
nied by scores of reprisal exec
tions-might have succeeded, h
argued, but for the hard, "u
conditional surrender" stand o
the Allies.
The Allied failure to give e
couragement to the plotters b
some assurance of a comma
defense against the Communi
threat was a fatal handicap, Ml
Dulles contended.
His most outstanding suces
in World War II however, wa
in. negotiating the capitulatlo
of German armies in Italy
week before the final surrend
at Rheims.
The Belgian and French go
ernments decorated Mr. Dull
for outstanding achievemen
during World War II. He all
received,-, .,We Medal of Merit a
a presidential citation from t -
United States.
After the war, Mr. Dulles r -:
joined his law firm until 19.1
when,. he appointed depu
dircctorofthe CIA.
After retiring from the CIA,
Mr. Dulles published the e
books: "The Craft of Intel -
gence," ' 'he Secret Surre
der," and "Great True Spy St )-j
ries." His earlier books we e,
"Germany's Underground," a d
the pre-1940 works "Will Ame i-
,
ca Stay Neutral," and in colla -
ration with Hamilton Fish Ar -
strong, "Can We Be Neutral."
Besides his Warren Comm - -
Ision duty after leaving the CI ,
Mr. Dulles was commission d
by President Johnson to inves i-1
gate the Mississippi slaying f
three civil rights workers n'
1964.
Survivors include his wife, of
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the home at 2723 Q St. NW; ft;
daughters, Mrs. Joan Bures ,
of Zurich, Switzerland, and M Clover D.. Jebson of Newt k;
Allen M.,
one son
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