ALEN DULLES DEAD AT AGE 75

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• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
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By Don Oberdorfer
Washington Post staff Writer
ficer of modern times, died o
omplications of pneumoni
(Georgetown University Hospi
Foster Dulles-he was th
successes and some of th
intelligence Agency from 1951
the CIA, but he professional
ized it and transformed it in
to one of the boldest and mos
flew the U-2 spy plane and th
spy-in-the-sky satellite, usin
In a statement issued at the Though Allen Dulles o
White House yesterday, Presi- 1 spoke and wrote of the
dent Nixon Praised Mr. Dulles gers to the United States posed
Intelligence and great dedica- siveness, ne was iar less of
-tion to everything he did." Mr. an ideological antl?gommunuist
Nixon added that "in the na-
ture of his task, his achieve-
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Cromwell, also his brother
firm. During World War I
Gen. William J. Donovan, th
chief of the Office of Strategi .-
Services, recruited Mr. Dull
Foster Dulles. In the half- as his intelligence chief i
cloaked world of modern es-Switzerland.
world is a safer place today." wvancu. asa.:tob {,sac 14uoosa&LJ
At Walter Reed Army Hos- with .great energy and enter.
ital former President Eisen- prise, as he Quo against the
hower extolled Mr. Dulles as Germans during World War It
Ci- a,.-. , ,??w,;,, ,,,,,,,,,,r.,. Nevertheless, said one of his
whose outsanding ability will day, "To, Allen, Communi,m, gence network employing hu I-
be greatly missed by the Na- dreds of informants and oiler -
tion." Mr. Dulles headed the was a system to be dealt with
CIA during virtually the entire He never had his brother's tives reaching Into German ,
Eisenh o we r Administration, moralistic loathing." Yugoslavia, Hungary, Spa! ;
and always ? maintained-with- Clergyman's'. Son Portugal and North Afric ,
out rebuttal from the White with their three sisters, the and completly covering Franc
House L that ? CIA operations It
stria " Mr Dull s
l
nd A
growing nuclear arsenal; to
high-level approval. cries of Presbyterian parson aged an agent within the Ge -
ges occupied by their father
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Director Richard Helms o
CIA, . who worked for Mr.
Dulles for many years, praised
his "unique" contribution to
the establishment of the mod-
ern American intelligence serv-
ice. "He was inspired by what
to him were the lasting Ameri-
can traditions of freedom, jus-
tice and tolerance," Helms
said. "Ile clearly saw his ca- at age 8 on the Boer War -after. the surrender of the Germ j
leer in intelligence as service hearing it discussed by his Army of Northern Italy ne r-
to these principles. It was hi l grandfather, John W. Foster, ay a week before V-E Da .
deepest conviction that the Secretary of State under' Pres-' This. "secret surrender," tat r
American Government and
people should know the truth,
and that the truth should
make and keep them free."
In the Soviet Union, where
attacks, were launched on Mr.,
Dulles beginning in February,,
1948, and continuing with
great intensity during his CIA,
years, the official news agen-
cy, Tass,' declared' 'yesterday'Ivorite incidents of his early Swiss experience, which w s
that "he was not only spy6dipmatic service occurred ini probably the great adventu
ly hated the Soviet Union and
it was the advocate of unscru-
pulous ideological and propa-
ganda activity by the United
States Government.",
Assailed in 1951
Strong as it was, the Tass
glstatementi did not reach the
a: bombastic level set by in 1951
rf Soviet propagandist. "Even if
g
the . Rev. Allen M. Dulles. I
Often the brothers went sail- ` access to every docume .
Through him and other me -
ing
to. reduce things th"Foster wants -1; hers of his extensive apps -
pass directions;", to said clear a aar sailingling:tus, Mr. Dulles obtained t e
pass d;
companion of the time. "Allenr first information on the G r-
f man rocket program and ma y
feels out the currents ands' -4.1- ,,---- 4-
prococious, writing a pamphlet generals, Mr. Dulles, arrang d.
ident Benjamin Harrison, and the subject of one of his se -
his uncle, Robert Lansing, who oral books, was one of h s
was to be ,Secretary of State 'proudest achievements.
under President Woodrow Wil-j After he was recruited s
son. I Deputy Director of the CIA
After receiving B.A. and ' 1950 by its director, Ge .
M.A. degrees from Princeton, 'Walter Bedell Smith, and
Mr. Dulles served as -a junior 'his eight years as CIA Dire -
diplomat and intelligence offi. tor, Mr. D u 1 I c s constant
cer in Europe. One of his fa- harked back to his warti
the end of World War l; when been an intelligence officer '
an "'insignificant little man". the field, and a superby su
called to see someone in au- cessful one, he possessed a ze t
thority in the U.S. Mission. "I for the romance of cloak-an
was scheduled to play tennis dagger work which is rare
"
so I had no time for him;
Mr. found at the top of Intel
Dulles recalled later. "Some- genre bureaucracies.
what 'later I learned - that , Within the CIA, he w s
esults might have 'been." cause he loved to dabble
He often cited the story later the details of undercov r
o CIA associates as an object work
In intelligence a ca
.
, arrive in Heaven 'through Tlesson in his theory that no,' officer is' the man who ma -
somebody's a b s e n t-minded. , one is too Insignificant for of ages the spies.
ness," Ehrenburg w r o t e in fictal attention, i .- -'
Pravda, "he would begin to Mr Dulles resigned from the
He died at 11:10 p.m. Wedn4s
edema-water on the lun
year ago. He entered Geor
dining health since, sufferi
a mild stroke more than
~ fl, LS
man with great energy and
durance, he had been in
A powerfully built, vigoro
"His Monument Is Arou
Us."
bears a sculpted likeness
Mr. Dulles and,-the inscripti
lobby of the CIA's vast co
A prominent plaque in
and mounted the unsuccessf
through a coup; began su
sidies to American labor, ed
y a
. .
a
u
'were carried out only after I Dulles brothers grew up in a;. obtained and personally ma
tempt to topple Cuba's Fid
tional, power.
Under his direction, the Cl
toppled a Communist fro
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According to the citation fo
his Medal for Merit, signed h
President Truman in 194%
Mr. Dulles "within a yea
effectively built up an intell
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ljai.t;n iuue ui uuv. luuiuas i'?,former. CIA Director's wife,
Dewey in 1948, Mr: Dulles,survives him, as do two daugh-
would have been CIA Director ters, Mrs. Joan Buresch of Zu-
in a Dewey Administration. rich and Mrs. Clover Dulles
When he was finally appointed Jebsen of New York City, and
to the job in February, 1953, by a son, Allen M. Dulles, who
President Eisenhower, he
brought a unique combination was severely, .wounded in the
of assets. Korean war.
The full impact of the Cold Also surviving are three sis-
War. had broken in- Washing- ters, including Eleanor bans-
ton, with a massive increase ing Dulles, of Washington. Fu-
In the official consciousness of neral services will be held at
Soviet military and political 11 a.m. Saturday. at George-
ambitions and operations. Mr. town T Presbyterian - Church,
eminent and experienced intel?
lixx., 0"
ligence field officer during the
war, and now he became Di-
rector of CIA as the brother of
the new Secretary of State.
Perhaps as important, his
love of "the craft of intelli-
gence" (the title of another of,
his books), his uncommon'
boldness and his magnetic
ability to attract bold and able
men all contributed 'to, a surge
of power and importance at
CIA.
When Mr. Dulles learned in
.1954 that German scientists
were working on highly secret.
strategic missiles under Soviets
.direction deep inside Russia,
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it
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States had to learn the details
whatever the cost or risk. '
His staff came up with idea
of a high-flying spy plane.
Mr. Dulles convinced the Ei-
senhower Administration and
Congress that.the,CIA should
buil.d and fly it, on grounds
that the Defense Department
was much too 'slow.
From the go-ahead to build
,a prototype U-2 in December,
1954, it was only nine months
to the first test flight and
about a year after that to the
.'first flights over Russia.
Despite the uproar following
the crash of Francis Gary
Powers in. a U-2 in May, 1960,
many authorities consider. the
overflights as the most impor-
tant American intelligence
triumph of the postwar -era.
On the other hand, the Bay
of Pigs invasion of April, 1961
-another product of the'
Dulles .CIA-is generally con-'
sidered the greatest U.S. in-_
telligence blunder. Mr. Dulles
'convinced the newly inaugu-
'rated President, John F. Ken-
nedy, that if an invasion was
to be successful, it was impos-
sible to wait. The disastrous
result shattered'- Kennedy's
confidence in Mr. Dulles and,
for a time, in the CIA. Mr.,
Dulles retired as CIA Director
In November, 1961, with public
praise from Kennedy and the
presidential observation to
CIA employes that "your suc-
cesses are A ft $1'F Sal tele
,,failures. trum e . ?-
aratulated , , his precocious, ___,8-year-old -Allen Ditties wrote on the Boer War.
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Allen,.Dulles and his wife. Clover, at Swedish Embassy party in December, 1967.
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.Allen Dulles, the Nation's foremost spymaster, is shown; with his brother, John Foster Dulles, and with
;,Presidents John F: Kennedy and Lyndon 1h Johnson. .I,
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