The DEAis not a member of the intelligence community (IC) but
clearly has intelligence responsibilities in the counterdrug effort.
Therefore, the DEArelies heavily on the IC agencies for its strategic
intelligence needs and exchanges appropriate intelligence informa-
tion with its intelligence community counterparts.DULLES, ALLEN WELSH (1893–1969). The fifth director of cen-
tral intelligence (DCI) from 1953 until 1961 and the first civilian
DCI since the establishment of the U.S. intelligence apparatus in- As such, Dulles presided over many of America’s early covert
actions, some of which were later to haunt United States foreign
policy.
Ascion of a politically connected family, Allen Dulles entered the
foreign service in 1916. During World War I, he was stationed in
Berne, Switzerland, where the Russian revolutionary Vladimir I.
Lenin supposedly tried to approach him to elicit American help.
Dulles reportedly put off Lenin’s request for a meeting, an incident
that Dulles often recounted in his later years. At the end of World War
I, Allen Dulles served on the staff of the American delegation to the
Paris Peace Conference and then was posted to the Department of
Statein Washington, D.C. In 1926, he left the government for a law
practice but joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) when
World War IIbroke out. He returned to Berne, Switzerland, from
where he operated a spy ring inside Nazi Germany. After the war,
Dulles returned to his law practice but remained active in intelligence
matters by helping draft the National Security Act of 1947. DCI
Walter Bedell Smithrecruited Allen Dulles in 1951 to be deputy di-
rector of central intelligence (DDCI), and, in 1953, Dulles suc-
ceeded Smith as DCI.
Dulles’s accomplishments during his tenure included the overthrow
of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmanin Guatemala, the building of
the Berlin Tunnelto eavesdrop on Soviet military communications,
the development of the U-2spy airplane, and the acquisition of Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s secret speechto the Twentieth Party
Congress. Dulles resigned in 1961 in the wake of the disastrous Bay
of Pigs invasionin Cuba. However, during his eight years as the head
of U.S. intelligence, Allen Dulles and his brother, Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, exerted enormous influence over U.S. foreign pol-
icy, helping shape America’s approach to the rest of the Cold War.
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