Allen Dulles

Allen Dulles
5th Director of Central Intelligence
In office February 26, 1953 – November 29, 1961
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy
Deputy	Charles P. Cabell
Preceded by	Walter Bedell Smith
Succeeded by	John A. McCone
4th Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
In office August 23, 1951 – February 26, 1953
President	Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	William H. Jackson
Succeeded by	Charles P. Cabell
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans
In office January 4, 1951 – August 23, 1951
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Frank Wisner
Personal details
Born	Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-04-07)April 7, 1893 Watertown, New York, U.S.
Died	January 29, 1969(1969-01-29) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Green Mount Cemetery
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Martha "Clover" Todd ​ ​ (m. 1920)​
Children	3
Relatives	John Foster Dulles (brother) John Welsh Dulles (grandfather) Miron Winslow (great-grandfather) Harriet Winslow (great-grandmother) Avery Cardinal Dulles (nephew) Dulles family
Education	Princeton University (BA) George Washington University (LLB)

Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌlɪs/ DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was fired by President John F. Kennedy.

Dulles was a member of the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination. A conspiracy theory suggesting that Dulles and the CIA were somehow involved in Kennedy's assassination and its potential cover up in the Warren Commission have been subject to popular debate among historians, political commentators and conspiracy theorists. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that the CIA was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.^[1]

Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration and is the namesake of Dulles International Airport.^[2]