The ongoing fighting in Indochina had exhausted him ; he was described by American secretary of state John Foster Dulles as " a deeply harassed man " and later by a historian as " on the verge of a nervous breakdown ".

US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was deeply suspicious of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who he believed to be a reckless and dangerous nationalist.

In a meeting attended by the President, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, Bissell outlined the proposed " Operation Trinidad ", with an invasion force storming the beaches of Trinidad, Cuba by sea and by air.

After attending Awty International School, Flanery graduated from Dulles High School in Sugar Land and attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

A major presentation of the systems was organized as TRANSPO ' 72 at Dulles Airport where the various systems were presented to delegations from numerous cities in the US.

Designed by Secretary of State Dulles, it held the U. S. would be " prepared to use armed force ... counter aggression from any country controlled by international communism ".

More international and low-cost airlines are commencing service at Washington Dulles, and traffic in 2010 is rebounding from the loss in passengers due to the late-2000s recession and the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Dulles also became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, an international law firm.

Dunn Loring is roughly equidistant from Washington Dulles International Airport, the largest international airport in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The closest international airport is Washington Dulles International Airport, which is about driving distance east.

For all other international passenger flights, those in the Washington Metropolitan Area can use Dulles International Airport west of the city and Baltimore-Washington International Airport northeast of the city.

Israel withdrew from Sinai under international pressure, particularly by the United States and its Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.

It also boasts famous alumni, including Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ,, prominent international relations scholar Joseph Nye, and diplomat John Foster Dulles.

During and after World War II, individual members of the firm, including partners such as John Foster Dulles and Arthur Dean, also played important roles in domestic politics and international affairs.

Previously, he was acquisitions editor for international affairs at Brassey's, Inc., a Dulles, Virginia book publisher ( later called Potomac Books ), and a political science professor at Troy State University, Bainbridge College, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

* December 1 – A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles ( 40 km ) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.

Clydia Mae Richardson, who led the effort to put the seal on display, and John Foster Dulles imprint a document during the 1955 ceremony

He was also the older brother of Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence under President Eisenhower, and of Eleanor Lansing Dulles who is most notable for her efforts in the economic rebuilding of post-war Europe during 20 years of employment with the State Department.

As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.

Dulles ' rollback policy was later implemented by the Reagan Administration during the 1980s and it is sometimes credited with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Communist Bloc in eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union itself.

This subsequently became the primary location of the U. S. operations of British Intelligence, British Security Coordination ( BSC ) during the War, with Room 3603 becoming the principal operations center for Allied intelligence, organized by William Stephenson, as well as the office of the future head of what was later to become the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Welsh Dulles.

The term brinkmanship was coined by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles under the Eisenhower administration, during the Cold War.

Philby disclosed classified British intelligence to Ibn Saud ( King of Saudi Arabia ) during wartime ; he secretly helped secure American oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, double-crossing British competitors ; he created economic partnerships, allied against British interests and in favor of Nazi Germany, with the help of Allen Dulles ( later CIA Director ); and Philby worked with Nazi intelligence to sabotage efforts at creating a Jewish homeland.

The maximum toll rises to $ 5. 55 ( including the 75-cent Dulles Toll Road toll ) during " congestion pricing " hours, which are 6: 30 am to 9: 00 am eastbound and 4: 00 pm to 6: 30 pm westbound.

In late 1950, he accompanied secretary of state John Foster Dulles on his trip to Japan to conclude a peace treaty, during which time he consulted with many Japanese leaders in practically every important sphere of that country's life.

Dulles was named secretary of state by incoming President Dwight Eisenhower, but Eisenhower's decision not to intervene during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 made containment a bipartisan doctrine.

In a joint communiqué dated December 2, 1955, U. S. Secretary of State Dulles and Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Cunha condemned statements made by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Party Chairman Nikita Krushchev during an eighteen-day tour of India.

On December 6, Dulles held a news conference during which he reaffirmed U. S. neutrality on the Goa issue, but did not recant claims of Portuguese sovereignty over the region.

While many claim that Major General William Joseph Donovan ( known as ' Wild Bill Donovan ') was the " founder " of the CIA, official CIA history shows that these three men ( Beatle Smith, Bill Jackson, and Allen Dulles ) were the principals who actually put the CIA organization together as we know it, during its formative years from 1950-1961.

On April 19, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI gave the ailing Cardinal Dulles a private audience during his apostolic trip to the United States.

Building on the legacy of John Foster Dulles and Arthur Dean, the S & C chairmen during this period, John Stevenson, John Merow and Ricardo Mestres, all aggressively expanded the firm's practice in the United States and around the world.

In 1973, to " set an example for the rest of the nation during the current energy crisis " and to " demonstrate his confidence in the airlines ", then-President Richard Nixon became the only sitting president to travel on a regularly scheduled commercial airline flight when he flew on a United Airlines DC-10 from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport.

It has been suggested that Allen Dulles, informed that Noel Field was on his way to Prague, saw an irresistible opportunity to create havoc among his Cold War adversaries and lit the fuse by instructing Józef Światło, his Polish agent within East European counterintelligence, to alert his colleagues to the impending arrival of Dulles's master spy, coming now to activate the network of traitors he had put in place during the war years.

Her oldest brother, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, while another brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations ; Eleanor Lansing Dulles was also a paternal aunt of Roman Catholic Cardinal Avery Dulles.

The Rusk belief in balanced defense, replacing the Dulles theory of massive retaliation, removes a grave danger that has existed.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

Where Acheson had fought a gallant losing battle for the Department, Dulles fed the crocodile with his subordinates.

Fretting privately but eschewing public defense of his terrorized bureaucrats, Dulles remained serene and detached while the hatchet men had their way.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

In any event, the example of Acheson's trampling by the Senate did not encourage Dulles to provoke it.

It became smart to say that the fault was with Dulles because he would not countenance thinking done by anyone but himself.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

* 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

* 1893 – Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director ( d. 1969 )

In 1949 or 1950, DeMille was recruited by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner to serve on the board of the anti-communist National Committee for a Free Europe, the public face of the organization that oversaw the Radio Free Europe service.

He accepted their recommendations without exception ; they included John Foster Dulles and George M. Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, and one woman, Oveta Culp Hobby.

When Russia successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, Eisenhower, against the advice of Dulles, decided to initiate a disarmament proposal to the Russians.

With Dulles ' recommendation, he authorized the deployment of thirty Lockheed U-2's at a cost of $ 35 million.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

As the Cold War deepened, Dulles sought to isolate the Soviet Union by building regional alliances of nations against it.

Although Diem was publicly praised, in private Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Diem had been selected because there were no better alternatives.

* 1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board.

It was also at this juncture that the US Ambassador to the UN, John Foster Dulles, said, " From the point of view of justice, the opinions of the Eritrean people must receive consideration.