Editing Allen Dulles (section)

{{Short description|Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Allen Dulles
| image               = Allen w dulles.jpg
| caption             = 
| office              = 5th [[Director of Central Intelligence]]
| president           = [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<br>[[John F. Kennedy]]
| deputy              = [[Charles P. Cabell]]
| term_start          = February 26, 1953
| term_end            = November 29, 1961
| predecessor         = [[Walter Bedell Smith]]
| successor           = [[John A. McCone]]
| office1             = 4th [[Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Deputy Director of Central Intelligence]]
| president1          = [[Harry S. Truman]]<br>Dwight D. Eisenhower
| term_start1         = August 23, 1951
| term_end1           = February 26, 1953
| predecessor1        = [[William Harding Jackson|William H. Jackson]]
| successor1          = 
| office2             = [[Director of the National Clandestine Service|Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans]]
| president2          = Harry S. Truman
| term_start2         = January 4, 1951
| term_end2           = August 23, 1951
| predecessor2        = Position established
| successor2          = 
| office3             = Director of [[Office of Strategic Services]]
| president3          = [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]<br>Harry S. Truman
| term_start3         = June 13, 1942
| term_end3           = September 20, 1945
| predecessor3        = [[William J. Donovan]]
| successor3          = [[John A. McCone]]
| birth_name          = Allen Welsh Dulles
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1893|04|07}}
| birth_place         = [[Watertown (city), New York|Watertown]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1969|01|29|1893|04|07}}
| death_place         = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| restingplace        = [[Green Mount Cemetery]]
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| education           = [[Princeton University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[George Washington University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])}}
| spouse              = {{marriage|Martha "Clover" Todd|1920}}
| children            = 3
| relatives           = [[John Foster Dulles]] (brother)<br>[[John Watson Foster]] (uncle)<br> [[John Welsh Dulles]] (grandfather)<br>[[Miron Winslow]]<br>(great-grandfather)<br>[[Harriet Winslow]]<br>(great-grandmother)<br>[[Avery Dulles|Avery Cardinal Dulles]] (nephew)<br>[[:Category:Dulles family|Dulles family]]
}}

'''Allen Welsh Dulles''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ʌ|l|ɪ|s}} {{respell|DUL|iss}}; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian [[Director of Central Intelligence|director of central intelligence]] (DCI), and its longest serving director. As head of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) during the early [[Cold War]], he oversaw numerous activities, such as the [[1953 Iranian coup d'état]], the [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état]], 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 [[assassination of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy's assassination]]. A [[CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory|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 [[United States House Select Committee on Assassinations|House Select Committee on Assassinations]] (HSCA) concluded that the CIA was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-15 |title=Table of Contents |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=National Archives |language=en}}</ref>

Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at [[Sullivan & Cromwell]]. His older brother, [[John Foster Dulles]], was the [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] during the [[Eisenhower Administration|Eisenhower administration]] and is the namesake of [[Dulles International Airport]].<ref name=obit/>