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Allen Dulles

First civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)

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Lived 1893–1969, aged 76United States
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    1893–1969
    Aged 76
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Updated 2026-08-16

He ran the CIA longer than anyone, greenlighting coups in Iran and Guatemala, a mind control program, and the Bay of Pigs disaster that cost him his job. Then Kennedy put him on the commission investigating Kennedy's own murder.

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Allen Welsh Dulles was a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell before becoming the first civilian director of central intelligence and the CIA's longest-serving chief. During the early Cold War he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, and Project MKUltra, the agency's mind control program. The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion failed badly enough that President John F. Kennedy forced him out and replaced him with John McCone. After Kennedy's assassination, Dulles was appointed to the Warren Commission despite having been dismissed by the president he was now tasked w…

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Allen Dulles
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Since the beginning of the present European conflict the American public have been advised to keep their emotions under control. ...
— Allen W. Dulles and Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Can America Stay Neutral? (1939)
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