Allen Dulles
First civilian Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961), the CIA's longest-serving director. Appointed by Eisenhower; commissioned the CIA's Robertson Panel weeks into his tenure. Forced to resign by JFK after the 1961 Bay of Pigs failure. Later served on the Warren Commission investigating JFK's assassination - a role widely scrutinized given his own prior dismissal by Kennedy.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record. The deciding phrase is this entity's own: "commissioned the CIA's Robertson Panel". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.
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appointed him first civilian CIA Director in 1953
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replaced by McCone on 29 November 1961same document as the row above
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Director of Central Intelligence (1953-61)
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tested against Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume IThe claim we testedcommissioned it weeks into his CIA tenureWhat the document actually saysH. Marshall Chadwell clandestinely sponsored the establishment of a UFO scientific review panel ... This action followed a recommendation from CIA's Intelligence Advisory Committee ... In December 1952, H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, briefed the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Walter Bedell Smith, on the subject of UFOs. ... His concerns about and interest in the topic led to the establishment of the Robertson Panel.Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 17 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. THIS DOCUMENT ATTRIBUTES THE PANEL TO SOMEONE ELSE, AND TO A DIFFERENT DCI. AARO says Chadwell sponsored it, on an Intelligence Advisory Committee recommendation, having briefed Walter Bedell Smith - and the panel met in January 1953, while Smith was still Director of Central Intelligence. Dulles is not named anywhere on this page. NOT BOUND, AND FLAGGED: the relation may have the wrong man, and the map should not be left asserting it quietly. -
tested against Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume IThe claim we testedoversaw CIA involvement in reviewing its workWhat the document actually saysFollowing high-level White House discussions on what to do if alien intelligence was discovered or there was a new outbreak of UFO sightings, DCI John McCone tasked the CIA to update its evaluation of UFOs. ... Donald F. Chamberlain, Assistant Director of OSI, subsequently informed McCone that little had changed since the early 1950s.Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 19 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. THE SECOND PAGE IN THIS DOCUMENT THAT NAMES A DIFFERENT MAN. Printed 17 attributes the 1953 panel to Chadwell under DCI Walter Bedell Smith; printed 19 attributes the 1964 re-evaluation to DCI John McCone through Chamberlain. Dulles is named on neither. TWO SEPARATE CIA REVIEWS OF UFO WORK, TWO NAMED DIRECTORS OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, NEITHER OF THEM DULLES. Taken with the refusal on link 394, this map has two links putting Dulles at the centre of CIA UFO oversight and no document that puts him there. -
JFK forced his resignation after the 1961 Bay of Pigs failureRTÉ Brainstorm - JFK & Bay of Pigs
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named as an alleged member in the disputed documentsMJ-12 documents (widely regarded as disputed/forged); Stanton Friedman analysis
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his older brotherJohn Foster Dulles bio (brothers)
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