James Corbett – Diplomat, spy, Wall Street lawyer, philanderer, government overthrow specialist, Nazi collaborator, MKULTRA overlord, presidential assassin. This week on the Corbett Report podcast: meet Allen Dulles, fascist spymaster.
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Show Notes
- CIA Covert Action in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala: Documentary Film (1965)
- Allen Dulles: The Powerful, Moneyed World of International Finance & Politics (2002)
- The Craft of Intelligence by Allen Dulles
- The Shadows of Power by James Perloff
- Overthrowing Governments 101, CIA Coups
- Spies “Diplomacy – CIA Style”: Iran
- U.S. and Them: Operation Ajax – Iran and the CIA coup (1/2)
- Lessons of History – Coup of 1953
- Spies “Diplomacy – CIA Style”: Guatemala
- CIA and the Nazi’s Documentary
- CIA Mind Control
- America’s Secret War – MKULTRA Mind Control
- Spies “Diplomacy – CIA Style”: Cuba
- Allen Dulles, the Nazis, and the CIA
- 50 years of CIA history with top “Company” man Robert Crowley
- Episode 049 – Paperclipped Nazis and Stay-behind Gladios
- Operation Paperclip
- Project Paperclip and the Space Race
- Stephen Kinzer on the Dulles Brothers
- President Kennedy Announcing the Appointment of John McCone as Director of CIA
- President John F. Kennedy Presents the National Security Medal to Allen Dulles
- JFK – The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
- LBJ Asks Dulles To Serve On Warren Commission To Investigate JFK Assassination
- Allen Dulles and the origins of the lone gunman theory
- Allen Dulles: ‘I think this record ought to be destroyed.
- Forgotten History of the Dulles Brothers
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Allen Dulles
Wikipedia – Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, Operation Ajax, the Lockheed U-2 program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission. 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.
CIA career
In 1950, Smith recruited Dulles to oversee the agency’s covert operations as Deputy Director for Plans. The same year Dulles was promoted to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, second in the intelligence hierarchy. After the election of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, Bedell Smith shifted to the Department of State and Dulles became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence.
The Agency’s covert operations were an important part of the Eisenhower administration‘s new Cold War national security policy known as the “New Look”. Under Dulles’ direction, the CIA created MK-Ultra, a top secret mind control research project managed by Sidney Gottlieb. Dulles also personally oversaw Operation Mockingbird, a program that influenced foreign and domestic media companies.[citation needed]
At Dulles’ request, President Eisenhower demanded that Senator Joseph McCarthy discontinue issuing subpoenas against the CIA. In March 1950, McCarthy had initiated a series of investigations into potential communist subversion of the Agency. Although none of the investigations revealed any wrongdoing, the hearings were potentially damaging, not only to the CIA’s reputation but also to the security of sensitive information. Documents made public in 2004 revealed that the CIA, under Dulles’ orders, had broken into McCarthy’s Senate office and fed disinformation to him in order to discredit him, in order to stop his investigation of communist infiltration of the CIA.[20]
In the early 1950s, the United States Air Force conducted a competition for a new photo reconnaissance aircraft. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation‘s Skunk Works submitted a design number called the CL-282, which married sailplane-like wings to the body of a supersonic interceptor. This aircraft was rejected by the Air Force, but several of the civilians on the review board took notice, and Edwin Land presented a proposal for the aircraft to Dulles. The aircraft became what is known as the U-2 ‘spy plane’, and it was initially operated by CIA pilots. Its introduction into operational service in 1957 greatly enhanced the CIA’s ability to monitor Soviet activity through overhead photo surveillance. The aircraft eventually entered service with the Air Force.[citation needed] The Soviet Union captured a U-2 in 1960 during Dulles’ term as CIA chief.[1]
Dulles is considered one of the essential creators of the modern United States intelligence system and was an indispensable guide to clandestine operations during the Cold War. He established intelligence networks worldwide to check and counter Soviet and eastern European communist advances as well as international communist movements.[21][15][22][page needed]
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