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| − | |wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
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| − | |birth_date=April 7, 1893
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| − | |birth_place=New York, US
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| − | |death_date=January 29, 1969
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| − | |death_place=Washington, D.C.
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| − | |start=February 26, 1953
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| − | |end=November 29, 1961
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| − | |title=Director of Central Intelligence
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| − | |description=Fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs}}
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| − | ==Background==
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| − | Allen Dulles was born into a rich family with many influential relatives. He was the younger brother of [[John Foster Dulles]]. According to his sister, Eleanor, Dulles had "at least a hundred" extramarital affairs, including some during his tenure with the CIA.
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| − | ==Activities==
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| − | Dulles became a director of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in 1927, the first new director since the Council's founding in 1921. He was secretary of the CFR from 1933 to 1944.
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| − | ==JFK Assassination==
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| − | At the direction of President [[Eisenhower]], Dulles established [[Operation 40]], a CIA-backed hit squad that is heavily implicated in the [[JFK Assassination|assassination of JFK]]. As well heavily implication in the plot to kill [[JFK]], Dulles was central to its cover-up. On November 29, 1963, the new [[US President|President]] [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]] appointed Dulles as one of seven commissioners of the [[Warren Commission]] to perpare an {{on}} of the assassination of JFK.
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| − | ==References==
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