Early life and family[edit]
He was born on April 7, 1893, in Watertown, New York,[1] one of five children born to Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife Edith Dulles née Foster. He was five years younger than his brother John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State and chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, and two years older than his sister, diplomat Eleanor Lansing Dulles. His maternal grandfather was John W. Foster, who was Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, while his uncle by marriage, Robert Lansing served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.[2] Dulles was uncle to Avery Dulles, a Jesuit priest,theologian, and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who taught at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008.
Dulles graduated from Princeton University, where he participated in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society,[3] and entered the diplomatic service in 1916. In 1920, he married Clover Todd (March 5, 1894 - April 15, 1974). They had three children; two daughters: Clover D. Jebsen, ("Toddy"), and Joan Buresch Dulles Molden, ("Joan Buresch"); and one son, Allen Macy Dulles, Jr., who was wounded and permanently disabled in the Korean War and spent the rest of his life in and out of medical care.[4] According to his sister, Eleanor, Dulles had "at least a hundred" extramarital affairs, including some during his tenure with the CIA.[5]
In 1921, while at the US Embassy in Istanbul, Dulles may have helped to expose the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery to Philip Graves, a journalist working for The Times of London. The article was reprinted in The New York Times.[6]
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