biography
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Dulles, Allen W(elsh)
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pronunciation:
[duhles]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1969)
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| biography:
| Intelligence officer, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, the brother of John Foster Dulles. He studied at Princeton, and entered the US diplomatic service, serving in Vienna, Bern, Paris, Berlin, and Istanbul. He was chief of Division of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State (1922–6), worked for a law firm (1926–42), then served in Europe with the US Office of Strategic Services (1942–5). Upon the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency, he was made deputy director (1951), then director (1953). The 1961 disaster at the Bay of Pigs in the attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro brought recrimination on the head of the Kennedy administration, which responded by making a scapegoat of the CIA, and he was forced to resign. |
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