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Who was the president that fired Allen Dulles?

  • John F Kennedy

  • Richard Nixon

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Lyndon B Johnson

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President John F Kennedy dismissed Allen Dulles as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1961, shortly after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Dulles had been appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 and served until his termination.
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