ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040158-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 158
• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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CP,1Y,R.G.HT Allen
ing,th.e last 20 years toward making In World War 11 he was all Intel- rom men and harsh situations the
the device of intelligence an instr?u- ,.li:gence officer in Switzerland work- ~ find of . infornx x'tion arxd data' that
his uncle, Robert Lansing, 'secret.?ir? y y J
To exalt the career. of Allen W. of
ir agency in histor
state r any,
Dulles as a upon the oiri
, took hire acid his older in of brilliant minds and cobra-,'
spymaster and a cloak- larotl er?, Foster, early that morning: '
and-dagger expert is to describe his' to, the Hall of Mirrors for the sign goes individuals liticc task of rah
taining truth, poi ical, xnilit.ai
life inadequately and to fail to eval-'h g cererno 'y.'-He continued until ,
e,cortonlic, from the nations that
irate him as a man. Misjudging is .1926 in ; the state department and confronted the United States as
understandable at the time of his then began his legal career.
enemies.
death because any an, successful These details explain why he was
in'espionage and intelli ence, offers The Russians have e pressed the
g so much More than a spy. While idea that .he was anti-Communist.
glamor and fascination which 'dis- Lis brother went off in the direr-
tort judgment. He probably was less of an anti-:
tion . of forei
in) . gn policy strategy, he Ciamniunist than -most. American
Mr. Dulles' greatness to his na . elAr'ectee1 his' energies to the gather '
h of intelligence data and citizens. It so happened that the
tion - nd prol ably his form of per g perfect- Communist intelligence apparatus
sonal' satisfaction from his work `in?C situations that would make big was his greatest challenge. C;ornlae- ;
were based upon the highest order policy work. This is not to say that tition was the key, not ideology.
of 'iratellectttal intuitiveness cola- ,'he labored for his- brother because
blued with a technical craftsman- for only seven years or so were the Spy-successes and failures made
ship that he directed toward hist'o in association in the same gov- the headlines, but more important
labors. erninental administration, the 1/r- :'to the nation was this friendly man
4a senhower period. :.''Of humor who somehow with a
ment of value to the generals in war', ing for Gen. William J. Donovan in !America had to have for its tie
and to presidents in peace. This lat- the Office of Strategic Services.' mendous role -of leadership in the
tar part of his life, therefore, ob Their superior was President Frank- world.
scured a 15-year period when he was liii D. Roosevelt. Mr. Dulles organ-
a lawyer in New York with Sullivan ized an intelligence. n e t w o r k; His friendly 'and almost irxgenti- ;
and Cromwell and a political prac throughout central Europe which: ous' character was well known to.,
titioner who helped further the aril-;: included agents within the Nazi nail-' this community where he was born
Liticxns of Thomas E. Dewey toward .nary establishments and within the' eh years ago. He showed these
the governorship of this state. Getman foreign office itself. Ile ac qualities in his 'annual visits each
cornpli~.hed the surrender of the surnnier 'during the last seven
While his brother, John Foster German armies of northern Italy in years,' attending the church where'.
Dulles, in those days was a foreign advance of the Nazi surrender of his . father, ' Allen Macy Dulles,
policy counselor to the rising Mr. Germany itself. preached, walking and d.Aving the.
Dewey, Allen W. Dulles was at the streets of Watertown, fishing in'
important level of working in the Briefly after World War Il he', ' Lake Ontario. He visited, not so
pasty organization., seeking to lift was in law practice again. But in nruch.'anxong contemporaries be-
the G.O.P. out of its many failures 1970 he returned to government? cause there . were only a, few of,
in New York state. this time as the deputy director of them,but rather he talker' with
p rttxre:nt representative he was In i s ro 31~w,,
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GO back farther h which was ,being organized to carry from the great intelligence exert,