ALLEN W. DULLES, CITY NATIVE FORMER CIA HEAD, DIES AT 75

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• Publication Date: January 30, 1969
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vy. s, 73,
tertown, former director oft
the Central intelligence ag-
ency, died late Wednesday
night. Death was attributed
to complications from influ-
enza and pneumonia.
Mr. Dulles served as head
of the CIA for eight years,j
from 1953 to 1911, Almost all
of this time was during the
two presidential terms of
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
First reports of Dulles'I
death came from the C.I.A. Al
spokesman said he died at
!Georgt.own University hos-
1pit.al of "complications of the
flu and penumonia."
Funeral services will be
held Saturday at 11 a.m. at
the Georgetown Presbyterian
church here. Burial will be
in :Baltimore.
Mr. Dulles resigned as CIA
chief in late 1961, several
nionths after John F. Ken-
!nedy became president. Ile
later served on the Warren
commission which investigat-
ed the assassination of Ken-
inedy. He Pithily subscribed
.to. the coinrnission's major
finndin; --t.hat Lee Harvey Os-
wold was the lone assassin.
Special Assignments
Dulles, brother of the late
,John Foster Dulles, who was
I secretary of state during the
key years of the Eisenhower
administration, also fulfilled
some special assignments for
President T yndon B. Johnson.
One of these came in 1964
,when he went to Mississippi
to look into the slayings of
three evil rights workers.
Dulles, as head of the C.I.A.
was in the forefront of the
cold war air ainst Communism.
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, inceton, he taught. for a FfI?Ah1h
?ea.r in Autanapau, touts, tie
harried Clover Todd ir, 1920..
siey had three children----
: lover Todd, Joan and Allen
lacy.
Mr. Dulles entered the U.S.
)iplomatic Service in 1916
net was assigned. to Vienna.
n 1917 he was transferred to
erne, Switzerland. 1'e served
it the :Paris 11oace conference
fter World War I and was
ransferred to Berlin after
he meetings.
In 1920 he was assigned to
tate department headquar-
ers in Washington. From
922 through 1926 he was
thief of the department's di-
risi?in of near eastern affairs.
In 1926 he resigned from
he state department to prac-
ice law with Sullivan and
roinwell of New York, his
lder brother's :firm.
When the Office of Strate-
'ic Services was organizes
y Maj. Gen. William Dono I
an in World War Il, he r
tuned to government sec
vice. After his highly sic
essful term as European di
rector he resumed pr?ivat
law practice. He returned t.
Washington in Nov e m b er
1950, as No. 2 man at th }
C.I.A.
Role of Agency
head of the agency was fair r
ly quiet, but he came in fa
role in two crises over th
last 21/2 years of his term.
The first was the ill-fate
effort to aid Cuban refugee
to invade their homeland a .
the Bay of Pigs. That ende
in disaster. The C.I.A. wa
said to have played a majo
role in planning the invasio
-much of this taking place
before President Kenned
took office, Kennedy allowe
the operation ' to continu
and took the blame for it
{failure.
His appointment by Eisen- Among his more spectaeu.- e o m m i t t e e to coordinate b,:ought criticism of i",:
? helping to guide Aix e icon This gave the allies access to Ile: served as deputy dir.eG
foreign policy behind the every message that left the for of C.I.A. for 17 month iaclininistration -- the U2 i
clden t.
scene. while his brother, desk of Adolf cutters foreign ln?i(i? to his promotion tc
fought Communism openly as, rn.inister, Joachim von Rib- director.
secretary of state. bentrop. Mr. Dulles was born i.
Dulles was no newcomer to The Belgian and Frenchi Watertown, N.Y, on April 7
intelligence work. Ile had, governments decorated Dulles' 1893, five years nile;' i ,),he
served during World War II'for outstanding achievements. John Foster. The ' die
as Europeana director for tliejfle also received the medal of in 1959.
Qad a r~cnciAnn?i.0 nit s_ ? T~.,~ti
Francis Gary Powers, w'ra
!confessed during a ci r c u
Trial in Moscow that he ;v?
working for the C.I.A., Nv
shot clown by a Soviet o!ti -
Sile while flying his L2,
spy plane, over the heart r f
directing espionage activity Lion from the United States. from Princeton university In These flights --- thought to
against both Germany and In 1948, Secretary of 1)e- 1914 and received his mas?.be so high that the Russians
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planes-toad been oin on
for some time but there was
strong criticism of the C.LA,
for allowing Powers' flight
because it was on the eve of
the schedules opening of a
summit conference in Paris.
Russian 3': - c ,ier Nikita S.
Klhrushehev as(,d the U2 in.
cident as the basis for tor-
pedoing this summit with Ei?.
senhower n ?aris. The meet.
ingnever got off the ground
-in d US.-Russian relations
quickly soured.
After retiring from the
I C.I.A., Dulles wrote a nufn-I
her of books and special ar-
tieles. The first major one
appeared..in March, 1963, be-
fore the Kennedy ass?assina-
? tion.
In an article titled "The
Craft of Intelligence," he
said the United States over.
estiniate.d Russia's military
intentions in the 1950s.
This gave birth to the so-
called missile and bomber
'gap" that Kennedy spoke of
frequently during his 196?
presidential c a in p a i g n
against Republican Richard
lvi Nixon, now the president
but then Eisenhower's vice
president.
In his ad ti.cle, Dulles con.
Ifi:rmed what Kennedy's de-
fense secretary, Robert S.
McNamara, had said the year
before=--that the missile gap:
really did not exist.
In 1966 Dulles wrote a
book titled "The Secret Sur-
render." Ills earlier books
included: "Germany's Under-
ground" (1947), "Can Ameri:
ca Stay Neutral?" (1939), and
-in collaboration with Han
"Can,
ilton Fish Armstrong-
We Be Neutral'' (1935).
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