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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Allen Welsh Dulles ((1893 – 1969) was an American intelligence executive, a key human-source intelligence officer for the World War II Office of Strategic Services, was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). At a time when the DCI headed the U.S. Intelligence Community, he was the longest-serving (1953-1961) person in that post. Dulles retired as a result of the Bay of Pigs covert action.