ALLEN W. DULLLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040126-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: February 1, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved Eor lpe 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-00001
1 1969
P I ALLEN W.
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teacher, author, diplomat and law- The U-2 incident, for example,
family, Allen Welsh Dulles was a plain.
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Of tvd er ot a talented as the case of the Pueblo makes
yer. But the scholarly, pipe-smok- touched off an international up-
ing, mustached Dulles, who died roar, t.necalxcellation of the Paris
For seven eventful years, from flights obtained for this country
America's- "spymaster." much valuable information the U-2
tl
ae other
better known, in crude terms, u VIA as side, the public does not know how
this week at the age of 75, is . ""a""" 1L1Gp41115, ana a a v e r s e
world opinion : l3 t ,
Hoover represents the FBI.? neither defend itself nor praise it...,,
Dulles said on one occasion, "can.;
in the same fashion that J. Edgar
became associated with ; , the Q1,4 tlon ,B security. "The C.IA ' Mr.
1953 to 1960, Mr. Dulles led the -?' information that may have. gig-
Central 'Intelligence Agency, and nificantly contributed to our na-
self.
Mr. Dulles aervPll l,i.~lsrnnnf, tz
former Secretary of State John inayea a prominent role in what
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Dulles. Like many familina ,a,h;,1, Operations. As a member of the:;
have rendered important public v1 dlI e son atxategic S
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Allen Dulles perspnaIly was- v1bc41d1G111 it iar-xeacnang America n
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hardly the popular personification
which he operated wth tact, enter-
! of a "master a.py. Yet durhi hie
days at the CIA he mastermindedd11ue aria enormous. Success. Not'
only did he place agents in high'
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hrow
the
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vprahr-w places in Nazi Germany, he also;:;
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x,layeu a leaaingg role in negotiat-,,,
of Mossadegh in Iran. and the rP- ___ _: -
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and the tapping of Russian-East Mr. Dulles' tenure at CIA ended
in a blaze of controversy over the,
German communieal:inn.4 linna ;,,
East Germany by tunnelinir vnrlm? ;gay 0r gigs fiasco. Although. he
from. the .American-held sector of 1141 wide UAli was widely held
West Bex1%n, accountable for the rout of the
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Premier Khrushchev to the Coxri- affair by
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dress to the propaganda advantage . hint on for several months.
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