ALLEN W. DULLES DIES AT 75; CIA CHIEF FROM 1953 TO 1961

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: January 30, 1969
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Allen W. Dulles, 75, former
hief of the Central Intelligence
gency, died late yesterday in
eorgctown University Hospital
f complications following an at-?
ck of the flu and pneumonia.
The former U.S. master spy
caded the intelligence agency
961, a period in which it first
ame to the attention of the
ublic. He first was appointed
hief by former President
wight D. Eisenhower and then
sked to continue in his
22,000-a-year job by the late
President John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Dulles was a member of-
he Warren Commission that in-
estigated Kennedy's assassina-
ion and concluded the President
vas killed by one man, Lee
arvey Oswald.
Quit After Bay of Pigs
His resignation as CIA chief
ame 'a few months after the
3ay of Pigs fiasco. The White
louse said, however, that he
O ad planned to retire before the
uban incident.
I Mr. Dulles, who looked more
ike a grandfatherly schoolmas-
ter than the director of a global
spionage network, was a broth-
er of the late Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles.
Before his appointment as CIA
mad, Mr. Dulles served two
rears as deputy director.
Mr. Dulles, also fulfilled some
special assignments for Presi-
dent Lyndon B. Johnson.
One of these came in 1964
when be went to Mississippi to
look into the slayings of three
civil rights workers.
. As head of the CIA, he was In
the forefront' of the cold war
against communism.: His ap-
FOIAb3b
for outstanding achievements.
ITe also received the Medal of
Merit and a presidential citation
from the United States.
In 1948, Secretary of Defense
James V. Forrestal appointed
him to a special committee to
coordinate civilian and military
intelligence.
Mr. Dulles was born in Water-
town, N. Y., on April 7, 1893, five
years after his brother John
.Foster. He was graduated from
Princeton University in 1914 and
received his master's degree in
1916.
After graduating from Prince-
ton, he taught fora year in Alla-
habad, India. He married Clover
Todd in 1920. They had three
I Mr. Dulles entered the U. S.
pointment by Eisenhower in Diplomatic service in 1916 and
January 1953 placed him in the was assigned to Vienna. In 1917,
position of helping to guide he was transferred to Berne,,
American foreign policy behind Switzerland. He served at the
the scenes while jiffs brothers Paris Peace Conference after
fought communism openly as World War I 'and was trans-
secretary of state. . ferred to Berlin after the meet-
Spy Director During War ings.
In 1920 he was assigned to
Mr. Dulles was no newcomers State Department headquarters
to intelligence work, He had; in W a s h I n g t o n. From 1922
served during World War II ass through 192G he was chief of the
European director for the Officc'departments Division of Near;
of Strategic Services, d rectin Eastern Affairs.
g g In 1926, Mr. Dulles resigned
espionage activity against both from the State Department to
Germany and Italy. ' ! practice law with Sullivan and
Among his more spectacular,' Cromwell of Now York, his elder
feats was the placing of a spy in,brother s firm.
the Nazi Foreign Office. Thisi When the Office' of Strategic
gave the Allies access to every Services was organized by Maj.
I
message that left the desk of Gen. William Donovan in World,
Adolf Hitler's foreign minister, I'. War II, he returned to govern-
Joachim von Ribbentrop. meat service. After his highly
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