Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen was a womanizer. When his wife first discovered this, she coolly went to Cartier and charged a large emerald to his account. It was her "compensation," she told Allen, and every time he strayed he would pay a similar price. Mosley does not record how large Mrs. Dulles' jewelry collection became, though Sister Eleanor guesses that "there were at least a hundred women in love with Allen at one time or another...
During World War II, Allen returned to Berne for the OSS. Among others, he recruited Fritz Kolbe, an employee of the Nazi foreign office who delivered plans for the V-2 rocket missiles and minutes of the meetings of Hitler's inner council. When Allen became head of the CIA in 1953, he applied the same stylish ingenuity and ruthlessness he had learned in the OSS. One of his greatest successes was the Berlin Tunnel in 1954. At a cost of $4 million, the CIA burrowed into East Berlin to tap all calls, from Communist Berlin, including those...
...annual budget of $97 million in 1950, for which only the most general accounting had to be given during Allen's years in control. From the di rector's own discretionary fund, he dispensed $30,000 a year to one member of the French Cabinet and once handed him $500,000 to distribute among fellow members of the Chamber. Allen lavished secret funds on Saudi Arabia, including money that may have gone for the virgins and small boys King Saud fancied. Said one former agent: "He was never against the unclean side of intelligence, so long...
...Allen's reputation never recovered from the Bay of Pigs, and he died in 1969. Some of the guests at his funeral noticed that the Presbyterian minister's eulogy soared to heights he had never reached before, in a style he had never used before. There was an explanation: the sermon was written...
Harvard drew to within 22-15 after Hooft and Bobby Allen each bagged a brace of buckets from the corner, but that was the closest the cagers were ever to come...