Allen Dulles was the Director of the CIA
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Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) was the first civilian Director of the Central Intelligence. He is the CIA’s longest-serving director to this day. He learned spycraft during his days as the chief of OSS in Switzerland.
He along with his team of spies played an essential role in the surrender of German Forces in Italy. He even helped Reinhard Gehlen to become the head of West German Intelligence. Gehlen was a part of Hitler’s Foreign Armies East and possessed a vast archive of information on the Soviet Union. He wasn’t a Nazi-sympathetic but saw German’s as important bulwark against the nation’s biggest threat – The Soviet Union.