ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100170001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 23, 1951
• Content Type: BIO

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Allen W. Dulles of New York City was today named Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence to succeed William H. Jackson, of Princeton, New Jersey,
w^o resigned that post due to the pressure of private business.. Mr. Jackson
will continue with CIA as special assistant to the director or. a part-time
basis. e has been Deputy Director since October 1950.
Both Dulles and Jackson were members of the three-man board that in
January 19L9 prepared for the National Security Council a report on the
national intelligence system including a review of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
A one-time career diplomat, New York attorney, and wartime chief of
the Office of Strategic Services in Switzerland, Mr. Dulles joined Central
Intelligence in November 1950 as Deputy Director for Plans. He will be
succeeded in his post by Frank G. Wisner of Washington, wartime naval
intelligence and OSS officer, and a CIA official since 19L8.
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ALLEN W. DULLES
Chief of the Swiss-based OSS mission which during World War II helped nego-
tiate the German surrender in Italy, Mr.. Dulles was born in Watertown, New York
in 1893. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1914, in 1916 was awarde
his M. A. and in 1926 received a law degree from George Washington University.
r.fter teaching English for one year in Allahabad; India, Mr. Dulles joined
the diplomatic service in 1916. He served in Vienna and then in Berne before
being appointed to the American Commission to negotiate the peace treaty after
World War I. Following a brief tour of duty in Berlin, Mr. Dulles was assigned
to the Department or State in Washington and in 1920 to the American mission to
Constantinople. Upon his return to the United States in 1922, he was named
chief of the division of Near Eastern Affairs of the Department of State. As
U. S. delegate to the International. Conference on Arms Traffic, Mr. Dulles went
t Geneva in 1925 and again in 1926 as a member of the American delegation to
the Preparatory Disarmament Commission.
In 1926 he resigned from the foreign service to join the law firm of Sullivan
and Crotrt,Tell in New York city. Thereafter he served as legal advisor to the
~m::rican delegation at the Three-Power Naval Conference in Geneva in 1927 and as
gal advisor to the American delegation at the general Disarmament Conferences
.n 1932 and 1933.
He is the author of two books, "Can America Stay Neutral?" with Hamilton
Fish Armstrong in 1939, and "Germanyls Underground" in 1947. In 1945, he was
elected president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Dulles is married to the former Clover Todd, has three children includ-
ing a son in the Marine Corps, and makes his home in New York city.
He is the brother of John Foster Dulles, special representative of the
President fnr the Japanese peace treaty.
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