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Allen Dulles

1893 - 1969

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Allen Welsh Dulles ( DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director. 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 in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was fired by President John F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allen Dulles has received more than 2,787,060 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Allen Dulles is the 3,851st most popular politician (up from 4,299th in 2019), the 1,222nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,444th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Politician.

Allen Dulles was the director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. He is most famous for overseeing the CIA's failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and for his involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Among politicians, Allen Dulles ranks 3,851 out of 19,576. Before him are Sergio Oliva, Ata-Malik Juvayni, Duke Xiao of Qin, Haris Silajdžić, Sigismund Kęstutaitis, and Andrej Hlinka. After him are Friedrich Adler, Franz Jonas, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, Jizi, Charibert II, and Stepan Shaumian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Allen Dulles ranks 50. Before him are Ana Pauker, Lucien Tesnière, Jomo Kenyatta, Clemens Krauss, Emmy Göring, and Roy O. Disney. After him are Ernst Toller, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Battista Farina, Erwin Piscator, and Nicholas J. Spykman. Among people deceased in 1969, Allen Dulles ranks 37. Before him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra David-Néel, B. Traven, Sonja Henie, Enrique Ballestrero, and Wacław Sierpiński. After him are Vjekoslav Luburić, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Robert Taylor, Li Zongren, Boris Karloff, and Itzhak Stern.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Dulles ranks 1,222 out of 20,380. Before him are Taylor Swift (1989), John Payne (1912), Jake LaMotta (1922), Snoop Dogg (1971), Mike Portnoy (1967), and Dave Brubeck (1920). After him are Tess Gerritsen (1953), Sonny Liston (1932), Izzy Stradlin (1962), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Scarlett Johansson (1984), and Tyrone Power (1914).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Allen Dulles ranks 98. Before him are Meir Kahane (1932), Andrew Dickson White (1832), Gina Haspel (1956), Lloyd Austin (1953), Susan Wojcicki (1968), and George Papandreou (1952). After him are Tecumseh (1768), Paul Ryan (1970), John Dickinson (1732), Cordell Hull (1871), Eliot Ness (1903), and John Foster Dulles (1888).

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