Allen Dulles

Acting

Allen Dulles

Overview

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Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Apr 07, 1893 (132 years old)

Allen Dulles

Known For

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2h 30m
Movie 2024

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that...

Laboratory Greece
2h 45m
Movie 2019

Laboratory Greece

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history:...

JFK II: The Bush Connection
1h 32m
Movie 2003

JFK II: The Bush Connection

Four part documentary about JFK's murder, and who had reasons...

Biography

Allen Welsh Dulles 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. He was fired by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco. Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 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 Airport.