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Allen W. Dulles

First civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)

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Oct 27, 2025
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What role did Allen Dulles play in the CIA's investigation of the JFK assassination?

Allen Dulles served as a former CIA director and a member of the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy’s assassination; his participation and prior CIA role have been cited as a central te...

Dec 9, 2025
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What were the main CIA MKULTRA mind-control techniques used in the 1950s and 1960s?

MKUltra was a broad CIA program (1953–about the early 1960s) that tested chemical, physical and psychological methods to alter behavior; its chief techniques included LSD and other drugs, electroshock...

Nov 7, 2025
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How did Allen Dulles' relationship with the Warren Commission impact the JFK investigation?

Allen Dulles’ role on the Warren Commission is presented in the available analyses as a focal point for claims that his presence introduced conflict of interest, potential bias, and limits to the Comm...

Jan 29, 2026

What documents related to the JFK assassination were declassified in 2017 that mention Allen Dulles?

’ mandated 2017–2018 tranche of included hundreds of thousands of pages of agency files, and contemporary reporting and archival inventories show that those releases contained - and -era records that ...

Nov 21, 2025

Who led Operation Mockingbird in the CIA?

Reporting about "Operation Mockingbird" is mixed: contemporary CIA documents confirm a 1963 wiretapping project called "Project Mockingbird" and declassified investigations in the 1970s uncovered exte...

Jan 7, 2026

What did Allen Dulles testify about during the Church Committee hearings in 1975 regarding CIA activities and the JFK assassination?

Allen Dulles appeared in the mid-1970s as a central figure in Senate investigations of the intelligence community because of his prior role as CIA director and as a member of the Warren Commission; th...