Allen Welsh Dulles
Allen Welsh Dulles (
April 23,
1893 -
January 29,
1969) was an influential director of the
CIA from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the
Warren Commission. Dulles was also the younger brother of
John Dulles. During Dulles's term as director of the CIA, the intelligence agency succeeded in its first attempts at removing foreign leaders by covert means, notably Prime Minister
Mossadeq of
Iran in 1953 and President
Arbenz of
Guatemala in 1954. These covert operations constituted an important part of the Eisenhower administration's new Cold War national security policy, known as the New Look. Dulles was fired by
JFK for his part in drafting the audacious
Operation Northwoods document, which called for the CIA to kill
Americann citizens and frame Cubans, to gain popular support for a war with that country.
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