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Allen Dulles
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American lawyer who was the first civilian director of central intelligence (DCI) and its longest serving director. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw numerous activities, such as US involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Project MKUltra attempt to create a mind control program…
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politics · Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961 · lawyer · diplomat · politician · intelligence officer · also Allen Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles, Allen W. Dulles, Dulles
Born 7 April 1893 · Died 29 January 1969 · Q317243
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Revealed that the CIA, under Dulles's orders, had broken into McCarthy's Senate office and fed disinformation to him in order to discredit him, in order to stop his investigation of alleged communist infiltration of the
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1969· 2 entries
Of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D
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Died 1969-01-29.
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1966· 1 entry
Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded Dulles the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service
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1963· 1 entry
Although it was primarily written by ghost writers, and edited Great True Spy Stories in 1968
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1961· 1 entry
Kennedy presented Dulles with the National Security Medal at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia
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1960· 1 entry
During Dulles's term as CIA chief
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1957· 1 entry
Greatly enhanced the CIA's ability to monitor Soviet activity through overhead photo surveillance
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1954· 1 entry
In a CIA-led coup carried out under the code name Operation PBSuccess
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1953· 3 entries
Dulles was taking a vacation in Rome while the Shah fled there after a setback in the coup, and the two met while checking in to the Hotel Excelsior
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Dulles was involved, along with Frank Wisner, in Operation Ajax, the covert operation that led to the removal of democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, and his replacement with Mohammad Reza P
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Career landmark: Director of Central Intelligence (1953–1961).
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1952· 1 entry
Bedell Smith shifted to the Department of State and Dulles became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence
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1951· 1 entry
Dulles was promoted to deputy director of Central Intelligence, second in the intelligence hierarchy
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1947· 1 entry
Dulles served as a senior staffer on the Herter Committee
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1944· 1 entry
And 1945, Dulles and his law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, worked with several German industrialists to move Nazi funds out of Germany's territory
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1942· 1 entry
Dulles was sent to Switzerland, arriving in Bern on
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1938· 1 entry
For the Republican nomination in New York's Sixteenth Congressional District on a platform calling for the strengthening of U
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1935· 1 entry
Dulles returned from a business trip to Germany concerned by the Nazi treatment of German Jews; despite his brother's objections, he led a movement within the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell to close their Berlin office
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1927· 1 entry
The first new director since the Council's founding in 1921
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1921· 1 entry
While at the US Embassy in Istanbul, Dulles helped expose The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery
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1920· 1 entry
Married Martha "Clover" Todd (March 5, 1894 – April 15, 1974)
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1917· 1 entry
The day before Lenin left Switzerland to travel to Saint Petersburg aboard a German train
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1893· 2 entries
In Watertown, New York, one of five children of Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife, Edith (née Foster) Dulles
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Born 1893-04-07.
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