ALLEN DULLES A MASTER U.S. SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040150-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 150
• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Allen Dulles a Master' .U.~ S.SAY
Allen Dulles served as head of the nti;,al,-ntrlJ.i.,ence Agency,fo
plications of influenza and pneumonia.
;tion, died yesterday at the age of 75. His demise was attributed to' corn
Secretary of State during the key years of the Eisenhower administra
Allen W. Dulles, brother of the late John Poster Dulles, who wa
eight years, from 1953 to,1961. Almost all'of that service was during th
two terms of Mr. Eisenhower's administration.
Mr. Dulles played the ' deadly game of espionage over two decade
heralded, Dulles directed the Central Intelligence Agency for eight years~a
and emerged unscratched. His influence trumpeted, his successes un
Russia in 1960 and the disastrous 1961 invasion of Cuba's. Bay of Pig
during his tenure, -highlighted with the downing. of a U-2 spy piano ove
masterminded by the CIA.
themselves."
Tall and robust, with a white moustache, given to tweeds and conj
paternal prep school headmaster thane a master spy intrusted, wit4
travelers in the shadowland of intelligence and espionage." ~ V
Mr. Dulles took it stoically. "Obviously," he said, "you cannot tell of
Based in Switzerland for the CIA's predecessor, the Office of Stra
during World War. 2.
While contemporary Americans knew him best as the chief of CIAO,
Allen Welsh Dulles. established his credentials as master of the. craft, ';
throughout Europe. His contacts reached. into timer's nign command
-=- He was the first source of reports about Nazi rocket experiment
and about V-2 bases being set up to bombard England,
Working through high Wehrmacht and :Gestapo contacts, he nego
tiated the surrender of `nearly' one million Nazi troops ,in Italy a wee
before V E Day. i t ? y` sL
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