Allen Dulles
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Allen Welsh Dulles Former United States Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was fired by John F. Kennedy "following the CIA's bungled operation to oust Fidel Castro by invading Cuba's Bay of Pigs".[1]
Denied that Fidel Castro was a communist
It was reported at the United Press International that Allen Dulles stated that Fidel Castro "did not have any communist leanings" during a "secret briefing" with the Senate on January 26, 1959:[2]
- WASHINGTON – A few weeks after Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, CIA chief Allen Dulles told the Senate in a secret briefing that the Cuban leader did not have any communist leanings," according to a report released yesterday. "He has certainly shown great courage," Dulles said of Castro before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 26, 1959. The committee yesterday released a 900-page declassified report on hearings held in 1959.
- "We do not think that Castro himself has any communist leanings," Dulles told the panel 25 days after Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. "We do not believe Castro is in the pay of or working for the communists." He added, "We believe, however, that this is a situation on which the communists could capitalize if there is not a move to get control of the situation more fully than Castro has control of it now. American intervention there at this time, or even before, would have had a disastrous effect throughout the whole hemisphere, and I see no matter of policy as an alternative," he told the committee.
- Dulles was less generous about Castro's brother, Raúl, now Cuba's defense minister, and about Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the head of Castro's agrarian reform program who was killed in Bolivia in 1967. "His brother is more irresponsible," Dulles said. "This fellow Che Guevara, the Argentine, I've been rather suspicious about him."
- Dulles said it was clear that Batista was on the losing end of the stick several months before losing power on Jan. 1, 1959. He mentioned that an effort was made through extra-diplomatic means, quietly, to see whether Batista would leave and an interim government could be put in place that would at least permit negotiations with Castro. "He stayed on too long, so that became impossible and Castro came in." Dulles remarked, reflecting on a scenario replayed 20 years later when Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza Debayle did not leave Managua until it was too late.
Former Directors & Officers
Allen Dulles was listed on the historical roster of directors and officers as of 2009:[3]
- Allen W. Dulles (1927–69)
Members
As the CFR currently has over 4,300 members, we have listed these on the following page: Council on Foreign Relations - Members
External links
References
- ↑ Yes, the CIA director was part of the JFK assassination cover up (accessed Sept 22, 2024)
- ↑ (accessed Sept 22, 2024)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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