Person
Allen Dulles
Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to November 1961; later a member of the Warren Commission.
- Dates
- 1893–1969
- Also known as
- Allen W. Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles
- Wikidata
- Q317243
- Life 1893–1969
- head of Central Intelligence Agency (Director of Central Intelligence) 1953 – Nov 1961
- member of Warren Commission (Commission member) 29 Nov 1963 – Sep 1964
According to Bitter Fruit
- worked at Sullivan & Cromwell
According to Church Committee
- involved in What the Warren Commission was not told
According to David Robarge
- involved in What the Warren Commission was not told
Connections 10
head of
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Central Intelligence Agency
1953 – Nov 1961
Director of Central Intelligence
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The CIA’s own history says he “lost his job” after the Bay of Pigs.
member of
- Warren Commission 29 Nov 1963 – Sep 1964 Commission member Primary record 3
worked at
- Sullivan & Cromwell did legal work for the firm in the 1920s and 1930s According to Bitter Fruit Scholarship & press 4
intervened in
- The 1954 coup in Guatemala 9 Dec 1953 approved the general plan for PBSUCCESS and allocated $3 million, 9 December 1953 Primary record 5
- The U.S. antitrust action against United Fruit 17 Jun 1954 advised delaying the suit by a month Primary record 6
involved in
- Bay of Pigs invasion Director of Central Intelligence; left the post in November 1961 Primary record 2
- National Security Council meetings on Iran, March 1953 warned that a Communist takeover in Iran was a growing possibility, but that the crisis would likely be compromised without a Tudeh victory; said that while Mossadegh lived there was “but little danger” Primary record 78
- What the Warren Commission was not told Commission member and former CIA director who, the Committee says, “presumably knew” of the earlier plots According to Church Committee Primary record 9
- What the Warren Commission was not told Advised CIA officers on what his fellow commissioners would ask, in Robarge’s account According to David Robarge Primary record 10
appears in
- C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? Named as a defender of the CIA Scholarship & press 11
Timeline 5 dates
- 1893–1969 Allen Dulles
- 1953 – Nov 1961 Allen Dulles head of Central Intelligence Agency
- 9 Dec 1953 Allen Dulles intervened in The 1954 coup in Guatemala
- 17 Jun 1954 Allen Dulles intervened in The U.S. antitrust action against United Fruit
- 29 Nov 1963 – Sep 1964 Allen Dulles member of Warren Commission
Proof 11 sources
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Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Senate Report 94-465), U.S. Senate, 1975.
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Archived copy
Dulles served as DCI from 1953 to November 1961.
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“Our First Line of Defense”: Presidential Reflections on US Intelligence, John F. Kennedy 1961-63, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence.
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the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. DCI Allen Dulles lost his job after the former
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Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Foreword, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1964.
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Allen W. Dulles, former Director of Central Intelligence, and John J. McCloy
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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Doubleday, 1982), Doubleday, 1982.
Scholarship & press
Allen Dulles also did legal work for Sullivan and Cromwell in the 1920s and 1930s
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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
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Archived copy
DCI Allen Dulles approves general plan for PBSUCCESS, allocates $3 million for the program.
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Editorial Note on the National Security Council meeting of 17 June 1954 (FRUS Guatemala 1952–1954, doc. 196), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.
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given a little more time, the Central American states would do Justice’s job for it.
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Memorandum From Director of Central Intelligence Dulles to President Eisenhower, 1 March 1953 (FRUS Iran 1951–1954, doc. 169), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 1 Mar 1953.
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a Communist takeover is becoming more and more of a possibility
However, even the present crisis is likely to be unsatisfactorily compromised without a Communist Tudeh victory.
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Memorandum of Discussion at the 135th Meeting of the National Security Council, 4 March 1953 (FRUS Iran 1951–1954, doc. 171), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 4 Mar 1953.
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As long as the latter lives there was but little danger
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Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, U.S. Senate, 1976.
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Archived copy
Allen Dulles, former Director of Central Intelligence, was a member of the Warren Commission and presumably knew about CIA plots during his tenure with the Agency, although he probably was unaware of the AMLASH operation.
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Death of a President: DCI John McCone and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence, 2013.
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Dulles did, however, advise Agency officers of the questions his fellow commissioners most likely would ask.
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C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? Survey Finds Widely Feared Agency Is Tightly Controlled, The New York Times, 25 Apr 1966.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
Even some who defend the C.I.A. as the indispensable eyes and ears of the Government -- for example Allen Dulles, the agency's most famous director -- now fear that the cumulative criticism and suspicion, at home and abroad, have impaired the C.I.A.'s effectiveness and therefore the nation's safety.
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