ALLEN DULLES DIES AT 75; FORMER U.S. MASTER SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040117-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: January 30, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

Washington Star
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ALLEN W..DULLES
Allen Dulles Dies'at`751
Former U.S. Master Spy
By THOMAS NOLAN
Star StafE Writer
typewriter and the lecture
cuit..
He was admitted to the hose
ent of pulmonary edema.
ary 1953, he resigned in Dece
overnment history.
service in November 1963 when
Warren Commission to investi-
gate the Kennedy assassination.
Kept Pipe in Mouth
One of the favorite anecdotes
in Washington during the Eisen-
hower administration was that
while most members of the
White House official family
spent most of the time with their
feet in their mouths, Mr. Dulles
kept his pipe in his.
The line should have pleased
him.
.H i s scholarly appearance,
close-cropped mustache and air
of casual well-being more close-
ly resembled that of a prep
school headmaster thana
cloak-and-dagger expert. Mr.
Dulles himself was always the
first to downgrade his efforts a
a spy.
"I've never been shot at," h
once told an interviewer, "and
don't know that anyone evo
tried to even kidnap me."
If anyone had, they woul
While the elder Dulles chart
cold war foreign policy, 11
en Dulles masterminded antm.
)ionage network which, for
;overnment operation .in pea
;ime, was unparalleled in secs
y. His hand could be felt
nearly every policy decision du
.ng the Eisenhower years.
After resigning from the CI
shortly after the Bay of Pi '
fiasco-the White House wa
quick to point out that his dec -
ion to retire had been ma
previously-Mr. Dulles returne
to the New York law firm f
Sullivan & Cromwell and.tq s
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