Allen Dulles Quotes


I think it is world—wide. As long as there is sex, it is going to be used… We recognize the existence of sex and the attraction of sex.


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Allen Welsh Dulles,, CIA executive director, ABC Issues and Answers, June 1963

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Allen Dulles
Allen Dulles
  • Born: April 7, 1893
  • Died: January 29, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: CIA Director

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.