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Allen Dulles
Watertown, New York, US
Allen Welsh Dulles 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…
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Allen Welsh Dulles 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. He was fired by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco. Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration and is the namesake of Dulles Airport.
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2025
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV show Self - Chief of Office of Strategic Services (archive footage)
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2022
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Out of Shadows
Movie Self (archive)
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2019
Laboratory Greece
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
The War on Democracy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
JFK II: The Bush Connection
Movie Self - CIA Director (archive footage)
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1992
The JFK Conspiracy
Movie Self
