People/Characters Allen Dulles
Works (31)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Company by Robert Littell
- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
- The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
- The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
- Wild Cards I by George R. R. Martin
- The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
- The Magdalene Cipher by Jim Hougan
- A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
- Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker
- Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network by Leonard Mosley
- A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II by Lucas Delattre
- The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA by Thomas Powers
- The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger
- UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973 by Richard M. Dolan
- Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles by Peter Grose
- Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes by Irving L. Janis
- Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas Waller
- The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones
- Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations, Part One: 1783-1953 by Jean-Pierre Filiu
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| Description | Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌlɪs/ DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who 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 in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was fired by President John F. Kennedy. Wikipedia |