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“CPYRGHT QPYRGHT Dulles Well. Qualified 70-00058ROd A-5 For Intelligence Post Watertown Native Has No. 2 Job in Central Intelli- gence Agency By ALAN S. EMORY Washington Bureau, Watertown Daily Times National Press Slag. Was ington, c . ear sincere, pipe-smoking native o Watertown, N. Y., holds down th No. 2 job in the United State C. A. is qultea hus us o I. ganization as the successor to th wartime Office of strategic serv W. Dulles, recognizes that fact. The "deputy" is not always a accurate term, because Mr. Dulle often takes over the top positio when his boss, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (pronounced bee'-dl), i away. He is a vigorous man and a kin one, who, despite his very bu_s_ ; day, had time to chat a whiff "I have fond memories of VOA- tertown," mused Mr. Dulle , whose father was a Presbyterian minister in the Jefferson county seat, where; Mr. Dulles, his 'brother. John Foster Dulles, and his sister, Eleanor : Lansing ,Dulles, were bor.n. "I still carry on a corres- pondence with Miss Emma S, Lan- sing there." Allen Dulles is 58 years old. He has a pleasant, deep voice; his hair and mustache are iron gray. His'office in the C. I. A. building is a reflection of the man him- self-comfortable and unostenta tious. The walls are. covered with maps of all parts of the world. The chaifs and settee are soft leather. The ash tray on 'Mr. Dulles' desk is filled with three pipes. Mr, Dulles commented that his agency, had unusually good re- lations with congress for a,,."young; growing organization.,," C. hh A., he explained, c*gptdin- aces all the intelligence ctivi- ties -for, the 'United States' Al- though the practical successor: to .. S. S.,, which be served, as chief CPY WATERTOWN (N.y,) dir'Ust. 42,963 of its Switzerland' mission and later as head of the German mis- sion, it is a legal 'entity itself. C. I. A. was established under the armed farces unification act as a regular agency in its own right. Its personnel is both civilians and military. Mr. Dulles, in the interests of security, was reluctant to talk much about his job or the detailed activities of C. I. A. He admitted, however, that he was amused by the fact that telephone operators at the agency answered with the telephone number, rather. than the name of the organization it- self, while district bus drivers readily informed visitors where the Central. Intelligence agency building is located. Mr. Dulles -denied there was anything to a leported rift be- tween Gen. Douglas MacArthur's United Nations command in Ko- { rea and C. I. A. The report was that MacArthur had refused to let C. I. A. agents into the combat area .to gather intelligence infor- mation. The deputy director said the procedure followed was the same as in any combat area. He and General Bedell-Smith went'to Ko- rea in January and talked the Isituation over with the military commanders They got everything "straightened out," he said. Mr. Dulles' career is a fascin- ating one, and worthy, of the grandson of John W. .Foster, who was secretary of state under Ben- jamin Harrison, and the nephew 10f. Robert Lansing, secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson. After his graduation from Princeton university in 1914 and his receiving a master's degree there two years later he took a trip around the world, . visiting India, China and Japan. He taught English for a year in Allahabad, India. In 1916. he began his diplomatic servile as embassy secretary in V ell a. There followed posts in Berne,; in' 1917; Paris, with the American Commission to Nego- tiate the Peace, in 1919; Berlin, 1920; with the American Com- mission in Constantinople in 1921 and then a post as chief of the division of Near Eastern Affairs from 1922 to 1926. He had served as U. S. delegate to the International Conference on Arms Traffic in Geneva in 1925 and as a member of the American Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010103-5 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010103-5 Sanitized - Approveq' CPYRGHT Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ."Can America Stay Neutral?" in 1939 and "Germany's Underground" in 1947. The recipient of the Medal (if Merit and the Medal for Free- dom,, he was one of those who helped to negotiate the German surrender in Italy, He Joined C. I. A. as deputy di- rector for plans eleven months ego. In 1938 Mr. Dulles ventured into politics, running for congress on the Republican ticket from a New York city district. He lost. A fire badly damaged his two- Story Long Island home, six-and- i-half miles from Huntington, in Vovember, 1949. Among other degrees, Mr. pulles holds a bachelor of laws 1from George Washington univer- ity in 1926. His extra-curricular activities have included the presidency of the Council on Foreign Relations a}id of the Near East Colleges as- sociation, directorship of the Woodrow Wilson foundation and the chairmanship of the interna- tional law committee of the New York county lawyers association. Mr. Dulles' roots are in the north country, although he has not b' en back for a visit in quite some time. His father, the late Rev. Dr. Allan Macy Dulles, was `pastdr of the First Presbyterian church. His brother, special ad- viser to the state department and !architect of the Japanese peace ,treaty, maintains a summer home on Main Duck island in Lake On- tario. His sister, an economic ad- viser to the National Production i aatltthority, spends part of the sum- I rae ear hex.e rP^C Dune Edwards, Rye, N. Y., and ? Mt . James S. Seymour of Utica s 0058R000100010103-5”