ALLEN DULLES, AN HONORABLE SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040125-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: February 1, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Allen Dulles, An Honorable Spy
'If 11P , mio t u recently
at. age 75, looked like a happy college
professer. He had all of the affectations
of the absent-minded campus Intellect-
ual-high forehead, baggy tweeds, rim-
less glasses and the everpresent pipe.
This facade hid the real Allen Dulles,
who was a master spy and eager in-
triguer..He followed his grandfather and
uncle, both of whom had been Secretary
of State, as his brother, John Foster,
was later to become, into the diplomatic
service. But his first assignment was
in intelligence, setting his life's pattern.
Dulles resigned from the diplomatic
corps in the 1930s over a salary dispute
he was paid an amount equal to his
boss' salary. He spent several years with.
a prestigious New York law firm, work-
ing primarily with the firm's German
clients, the Thyssen steel trust and the
Farben chemical trust. When the U.S.
entered World War II, Dulles set up
the Office of Strategic Services un-
dercover operation in Switzerland, tap-
ping his German connections for secret
information.
In Switzerland, Dulles
perfected the
habit of silence; and the art of drawing
others out:
"I have always tried to have important
meetings around a fireplace. There is built. U-2 flights at 70,000 feet over the
some subtle influence 'in a wood ' fire Soviet Union provided the U.S. with vital
that makes people feel at ease and less information about the Soviet missile, pro-
inhibited in their conversation; and if gram. When a U-2 was shot down by
you are asked a question which you are the Russians, Premier Khrushchev call-,
in no hurry to answer, you can stir . ed off a Paris summit talk with
tip the fire and study the patterns the Eisenhower and chilled relations between
flames make until you have shaped your East and West.
answer. If I needed more time to answer, Dulles' accomplishments in the service
I always had my pipe handy to fill and of his nation far outweighed his relatively
light." few boners. In times when the U.S. has
session that Dulles negotiated his major telligence apparatus, there are not many
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Perhaps it was during a fireplace to employ a vast espionage and in-
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orld War II, the men who can do the job as cleanly and
early surrender of the German armies honestly as Dulles. He was a gentleman
in Northern Italy. SPY.
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in 1950, Dulles helped draft the legisla-
,tion setting up the Central, Intelligenc
Agency. After a short term as deput
director under Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
Dulles became head of thNz.
directed it for 10 years. The CIA pos
gave him full vent for his love of in
trigue.
He figured there was a 20 per cent
chance of , overthrowing the communist
government of Arbenz Guzman in
Guatemala., In 1954, he sold the idea
to President Eisenhower. It took 1.2 days
to seize control of the country Iron
Guzman.
Dulles engineered the coup that sent
Iranian Premier Mossadegh packing and
restored Shah Pahlevi to the peacock
throne. He did not always win his battles,
however. Two of his losses were colossal.
The Bay of Pigs fiasco brought ridicule
to U.S. intelligence and sowed the seeds
of doubt about its efficiency, a condition
which lingers almost 10 years later.
Dulles didn't like to talk about the Bay
of Pigs.
One of Dulles' greatest intelligence
achievements backfired, setting 'off an
international political furor. He had the
U-2 reconnaissance plane designed and