Allen Dulles's apprenticesnip Continued From Page 1, Col. 7 for the spy-in-chief post includ- AllenWW. Dulles C.I.A. Director ed his work as head of the Of- Soviet press agency, denounced fice of Strategic Services in I From 1953 to 1960, Dies at 75 Mr. Dulles as a man who Switzerland in World War II. "fiercely hated the Soviet There he directed a complex operation that, over six months, Special to The New York Times Union and was the advocate led to the surrender of the Ger- WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 - of unscrupulousideological and man armies in' northern Italy Allen W. Dulles, Director of propaganda activity by the on May 2, 1945 — six days be- Central Intelligence from 1953 United States." fore the total collapse of the to 1961, died last night in Mr. Dulles is survived by Third Reich. The venture earned him the lasting distrust Georgetown University Hospi- his widow, the former Clover Todd; two daughters, Mrs. Joan of the Russians, who feared a tal. He was 75 years old, Buresch ofzurich, Switgerland, separate peace, and brought Mr. Dulles had suffered from and Mrs. Jens Jebsen of New about a celebrated , bitter ex- arthritic gout for several years, York; a son, Allen Macy of change between Josef Stalin but doctors attributed his death Washington; three sisters, Mrs. and President Franklin D. Roose- to influenza complicated by Eleanor lensing Dulles of Wash- velt, which foreshadowed the pneumonia. He had been ill a ington, Mrs. Dean Edwards of cold war. Rye, N. Y., and Mrs. James Some Notable Setbacks few weeks. Seymour. of New Hartford, In a statement, President N. Y., and six grandchildren. In that remorseless struggle Nixon said "In the nature of A funeral service will be held for the minds of men and the his task, his achievements were Saturday at 11 A.M. at allegiance of governments, Mr. the Georgetown Presbyterian Dulles's achievements as head known to only a few. But—be- of the C. I. A. usually went un- cause of him—the world is a Church in Washington. Burial, in Baltimore, will be private. heralded. But the setbacks re- safer place today. ceived spectacular treatment. "The death of Allen Dulles Among these were the Soviet came It a time when his qual- The Spy in Chief capture of Francis Gary Powers ities of deliberation, integrity and his U-2 reconnaissance By ALAN S. OSER plane in 1960, an episode that and intelligence are more than To the task of running the severely embarrassed President ever those on which free men nation's intelligence establish- Eisenhower and his Govern- must rely. He served his coun- ment during the height of the ment, and the attempted inva- try in the great tradition of his cold war in the nineteen-fifties, sion of Cuba in 1961, an inci- dent that seemingly benefited family and with unstinting de- Allen Welsh Dulles brought an votion to duty. Fidel Castro more than it did The New York Times engaging manner, a hearty "He was a man who brought the United States. Not long , Allen W. Dulles gregariousness and a profes- after the Bay of Pigs failure, civility, intelligence and great sorial appearance enhanced by President Kennedy, who took dedication to everything he Dulles's passing. He was a de- a high forehead, gray hair the blame for it, appointed a did." new C. I. A. director. voted public servant whose out- and full gray mustache, rim- Former President Dwight D. ., less glasses, rumpled tweeds Even then, Mr. Dulles re- Eisenhower, in a statement re- standing ability will be greatly and, almost perpetually, a mained philosophical and re- leased through his Gettysburg, missed by the nation." pipe. All of which masked the strained. "I don't spend my On the other hand, Tass, the zest for conspiracy stirring time worrying about things I Pa., office, said: "I am deeply can't do anything about," he grieved by 'die news' of Allen within. Continued on Page 34 Column 1 Like his older brother, John once observed. "If something Foster Dulles, he was a diplo- goes wrong, that's too bad. If mat and a lawyer. But while it goes right, I just hope we Foster moved into the policy- can keep it a secret as long making role of Secretary of as possible." State under President Dwight The man of affairs was born D. Eisenhower, Allen's career on April 7, 1893, in Watertown, branched off into cloak and N. Y., into a family of af- dagger work in World War II fairs. Mr. Dulles's father was and reached its apex with his the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, a appointment as Director of Presbyterian minister and the Central Intelligence in 1953. nephew of John Welsh, Am- While Foster moved the pol- bassador to Britain during the icy pieces on the internation- Rutherford Hayes Administra- al diplomatic chessboard, Allen tion. His mother, the former commanded the vast clandes- Edith Foster, was the daugh- tine operations' and evaluation ter of John W. Foster, Secre- network of the Central Intelli- tary of State under President gence Agency in what to both Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Foster's Dulleses was little less than son-in-law, Robert Lansing, be- a crusade against a worldwide came Secretary of State under Communist conspiracy of con- President Woodrow Wilson. ouest. "My earliest recollections are ' • of the Spanish and Boer wars," Mr. Dulles once wrote. He lis- tened to hot debates between his grandfather and Mr. Lan- The New York Times Mr. Dulles, in 1948, meeting his brother, John Foster Dulles, when the future Secretary of State was on his way from a U.N. meeting in Paris to confer with Thomas E. Dewey, G.O.P. Presidential candidate, to whom he was an adviser. sing on the merits of the Boer contact with the dissident and British causes and, at the forces in Austria that were try- age of 8, he formed his own ing to upset the Austro-Hun- opinion. garian wartime alliance with He was for the Boers, and Germany. he wrote a lengthy tract about A year later he was in Bern, it, full of detailed battle ac- Switzerland, gathering informa- counts and misspellings. The tion on Germany, Austria-Hun- family published it in a booklet. gary and the Balkans "England ought to be content In 1919 Mr. Dulles was at if she owned the mines where the Paris Peace Conference, re- gold is, but no, she wants to united again with Foster, who have the land too," he wrote. worked on European economic "She is all the time picking and financial problems while on little countries. A little time Allen specialized in political af- ago she was trying to make fairs. Next came Berlin, where off with Venezuela and now he helped open the first post- South Africa, and trying to war United States mission; then squeeze the life out of the Constantinople (now Istanbul) Boers, but she is finding it and finally, in 1922, Washing- hard work to do it; all her ton, as chief of the State De- crack soldiers are being cut partment's Division of Near up by the Boers." Eastern Affairs. A close relationship between A year later President War- Allen and his brother Foster, ren G. Harding died. Mr. Dulles The New York Times who was 5 years older, began emerged from a late dinner Allen W. Dulles, seeking Republican nomination' for Con- when they were. young. It lasted party to hear a newsboy shout- gress in 1938; voting in. the New York primary. He loSt. until Foster's death in 1959. ing "Extra!" He read the news ''' • ''' Allen followed his brother to and rushed to the State De- Princeton, where his easy friend- partment. liness contrasted with the stiff Only a clerk was on duty. intellectualism that Foster had Mr. Dulles rounded up the in- displayed on the, campus a few formation chief of the State years earlier. After graduation Department, Stanley Hawkes, he set out to see the world. rode with him to the home of The year was 1914. He was Secretary of State Charles in Paris when Archduke Fran- Evans Hughes and brought him cis Ferdinand was assassinated back to the State Department. at Sarajevo, setting off the From there they reached the events that led to World War sleeping Vice President, Calvin I. But to the young Allen Coolidge, at his father's house Dulles, who read the news in in Plymouth Notch, Vt. a sidewalk cafe while sipping There was no phone there, an aperitif, it did not seem par- and it tock an hour to fetch the ticularly ominous. Vice President to a neighbor's He went on to India, where phone. Mr. Dulles used the hour he taught English at a ,mission to unearth a copy of the Presi- school in Allahabad. Later he dential Oath in The World Al- visited China and Japan. The manac, and Mr. Hughes dic- year of travel ended back at tated it over the telephone to Princeton, where he won an Mr. Coolidge's father, a notary M.A. , degree in international public, who administered it to law in 1916 at 23 and joined his son. the diplomatic corps. In Washington Mr. Dulles at- `,:nded law classes at night at From "The Secret Surrender" Assignment in Vienna George Washington University, Mr. Dulles with Gero von S. Gaevernitz, at whose villa First he went to the United and in 1926 he received an he set up a secret meeting of Allied and German officers States Embassy in Vienna and LL.B.