JOHN FOSTER DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200440007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES
John Foster Dulles was born in Washington, D. C. in 1888. He received his
B. A. from Princeton University in 1908; studied at the Sorbonne (1908-9); and
received his LL.B. from George Washington University in 1911. He also re-
ceived he honorary LL.D. degree from the following institutions: Tufts (1939),
Princeton University (1946), Wagner College and Northwestern University (1947),
Union College (1948), University of Pennsylvania (1949). Since 1911 Mr. Dulles
has bean associated with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, in which he is
now a senior partner. During the first World War, Mr. Dulles served as a major
in the Army, and was attached to the General Staff. In 1919 he was an adviser
to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference and later worked with Herbert
Hoover on post-war relief problems. During the period between 1927 to 1942,
Mr. Dulles served in serveral important posts dealing with political and economic
problems in Poland, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, and the Far East.
From 1942 to 1945, Mr. Dulles was principal adviser to presidential candidate
Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Dulles served at the San Francisco Conference which
drafted the UN Charter and has since been a delegate to the U.N.G.A. meetings
of 1946-47-48-50. He has also served as a delegate to several conferences of the
Council of Foreign Ministers. In 1949 Mr. Dulles was appointed Senator from
New York to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Robert F. Wagner. At
the present time, Mr. Dulles is one of the principal consultants to the Sec-;et, ry
of State. Mr. Dulles is also a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation; chairman
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; member of the New York
State Banking Board; and chairman of the Federal Council of Churches com-
mission in Just and Durable Peace. Mr. Dulles is famous as a noted writer and
speaker on international affairs.
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