DULLES ENDS ILLUSTRIOUS SPY CAREER ON RETIREMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200120157-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 157
• Publication Date: September 7, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

RALEIGH, N.C. SEP 7 10161
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WAS! tINQTOl ,qJP Allen Perhaps the low -Points - in
W. Dulles who is g later
this year as chief of Ce~al
Intelligence Agency, has served
every Poeftmt since Woodrow
Wilson.
Now 68,` the brgther"of the late
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has beeetts~,~diretor of the
hush - hush cloak - a4 d-- dagger
agency since Feb. 26, 1953, when
;President Eisenhower chose him
,for the post. But he actually
started government service at
age 23 as a diplomat in Europe.
One of John F. Kennedy's first
acts as President was to ask Dul-
Les to stay on. 1Perhaps the high point in his l
eaa'eer . came. in World War III
when, operating from Switzer-
land, he formed a spy network k
that reached deep into, Nazi Ger-
many. It produced adv Itie infor-t
r
mation on the V-1 and V-2 rock
ets played a role in the bomb;,
!plot against Adolf Hitler, and was
given much of the credit for the
surrender of German troops
northern Italy in 1945. fl
terms of what the public is like-'
ly to remember about the CIA
under Dulles' direction - were,
the U-2. "spy plane incidents
which broke up Eisenhower'sl
Pis summit conference and thej
Cuban invasion fiasco.
l ,pulles in his role as masters
spy, has succeeded in gaining!
fame despite the secrecy. aspects,
of his work.
For his wartime service, he re-
ceived from the government the E
Medal of Merit and Presidentiali;
Citation, and the Medal of Free-
dom, as well as honors fro~
France, Belgium and Italy. ..f,
Approved For Release 2001/03/02 : CIA-RDP70-00058R000200120157-3