Allen Dulles
Known for ActingBorn 1893-04-07 — died 1969-01-29Watertown, 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 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.
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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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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024 · as Self (archive footage)
Laboratory Greece
2019 · as Self (archive footage)
The War on Democracy
2007 · as Self (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025 · as Self (archive footage)
JFK II: The Bush Connection
2003 · as Self - CIA Director (archive footage)
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine
2022 · as Self (archive footage)
The JFK Conspiracy
1992 · as Self