Allen Dulles
1893–1969
Wall Street lawyer turned CIA director — the architect of the covert state.
Allen Dulles ran the covert half of American power for a generation. From the Sullivan & Cromwell law office that did business with Nazi Germany, to the CIA director's chair that ordered coups in Iran and Guatemala and launched MKUltra, to the Warren Commission seat he took after John F. Kennedy fired him — Dulles is the blueprint this site is named for.
What the record shows
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His law firm did business with Nazi Germany before the war.
FACTSullivan & Cromwell's client web ran through the industrial cartels of the Third Reich — the 'trading with the enemy' record that preceded his intelligence career.
As CIA director he ran the coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954).
FACTOperation Ajax and Operation PBSUCCESS overthrew elected governments to serve oil and United Fruit — the covert-regime-change template.
MKUltra was authorized and run under his tenure.
FACTThe CIA's mind-control program — drugs, coercion, and human experimentation — operated on Dulles's watch.
JFK fired him — and then he sat on the commission that investigated JFK's murder.
FACTDismissed after the Bay of Pigs, Dulles was appointed to the Warren Commission, helping shape the official account of the assassination of the president who had removed him.
Every investigation that touches Allen
Resolved live from the investigations index — this list grows as new coverage lands.
- Trading With the EnemyWall Street's History of FascismFACT
- To Coup or Not to Coup?The Dulles BlueprintPROBABLY TRUE
- MKUltra: what the record establishes, and where the popular memory exceeds itCIA CrimesFACT
- United Fruit's State DepartmentThe Dulles BlueprintFACT
- Operation Paperclip: Bringing Nazis to the US after WWIICIA CrimesFACT
- The Plot to Seize the White HouseWall Street's History of FascismFACT
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