Clover Dulles person
also: Clover, Dulles' wife, the wife, Clover Todd, Clover Dulles, an angel
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Allen Dulles married
Clover Dulles book_quoted
“Allen Dulles gave her no room to reconsider his offer. He made the decision for both of them. She was a debutante on the social scene. Once on holiday from her Connecticut boarding school, Clover was invited by an eccentric New York society…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 8:44
Clover Dulles patient_of
Carl Jung book_quoted
“had began treatments with the man who was the second pillar of modern psychology in the 1930s after moving to Zurich with her new husband, who just so happened to be a Swiss banker. Clover entered analysis with Dr. Carl after reuniting with…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 2:57
Clover Dulles patient_of
Jolande Jacoby book_quoted
“while Clover was crossing the Atlantic. Then he disappeared. Dulles told Mary soon after meeting her, my wife is an angel. She always is doing things for other people. After Clover began treatment with Jolande Jacoby, who was Dr. Carl's ass…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 19:04
Paul Todd brother_of
Clover Dulles book_quoted
“with an Old Testament sense of right and wrong. Clover's emotional touchstone in her family was her younger brother, Paul. He was a sensitive boy the nursemaids enjoyed dressing up. The most astonishing, weird animals fascinated him.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 10:13
Henry Todd father_of
Clover Dulles book_quoted
“Her mother had came from a wealthy Baltimore manufacturing family whose foundry had produced the metal plates for the USS Monitor, the famed ironclad Civil War vessel. Her father, Henry Todd, was a distinguished professor of romance languag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 9:43
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Allen Jr. would be evacuated to a hospital in Japan and underwent brain surgery. Clover, Dulles' wife, flew to her son's bedside. His surgeon said there were shrapnel that was still deeply embedded that would never be able to be removed. In…
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greeted him at Andrew's, photographs and all. As the young man underwent further treatment at Bethesda, he seemed to recover to somewhat of his old self. He recognized people, made jokes, blah, blah, blah. It became clear that Clover was go…
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and his little Mingala Gottlieb disciples. After Penfield pronounced that Allen Jr.'s condition was hopeless, Clover continued to seek care. Nothing basically ever helped Allen Dulles' son. He was shuffled around, had caretakers. It goes on…
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They tried the lobotomy on her. All that came from my father, he was the one who suggested the doctor. It didn't work at all. It didn't stop the pain. It just made her odd, Joan later said. At one low point in Clover, Dulles' wife's life, a…
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has spent the bulk of his life in prison with periodic requests for retrial denied. Allen Dulles, who turned 75 in April of 68, kept up a busy schedule all that year. Despite Clover and Mary's concerns, Dulles continued attending meetings a…
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That afternoon, Dulles continued, he planned to go to a CIA social gathering with Jim Hunt and his wife. Quote, I'm afraid I will have to pass up Marion Glover's afternoon affair, as I cannot go to both, he would tell Clover. There was just…
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Even after death, the secret organism that Dulles had created continued to pulse. A team led by Angleton swept into the old man's home while Clover lay in bed upstairs and rifled through everything. CIA technicians installed secure phone li…
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allowing the little girl to float down the river and die, which is crazy. She also describes him basically as unfeeling. He didn't have compassion towards others, especially children, to include his own later on. Even his son and namesake, …
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Angleton, however, was lost in his own passion. He had found strong support for his views from Alan Dulles in the months after the war. Dulles lingered in Europe, hoping that Truman would appoint him commander of the shadow war against the …
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Because I come away from this entire book that the man's a machine. He's not like a human being. And you guys can tell me your opinion when we get done. But this chapter is about Alan Dulles' wife, Clover. And it starts off with introducing…
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had began treatments with the man who was the second pillar of modern psychology in the 1930s after moving to Zurich with her new husband, who just so happened to be a Swiss banker. Clover entered analysis with Dr. Carl after reuniting with…
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They kind of met each other through this process. Now, she's sleeping with Clover's husband and they're both going to the same therapist. If that's not totally weird. Clover and Mary developed a friendship that would last many years. Basica…
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Clover Todd in the summer of 1920 at a party of fashionable young people at a lakeside resort near the Dulles home in upstate New York. He had proposed to her quickly. She later described their courtship and marriage to Dulles with a sense …
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Allen Dulles gave her no room to reconsider his offer. He made the decision for both of them. She was a debutante on the social scene. Once on holiday from her Connecticut boarding school, Clover was invited by an eccentric New York society…
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with its stiffness until Clover broke the ice by challenging the ex-cons to a game of poker. In later years, she made prison reform a personal passion. Clover affinity for convicts was fueled by the fact that she often felt like a prisoner …
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Her mother had came from a wealthy Baltimore manufacturing family whose foundry had produced the metal plates for the USS Monitor, the famed ironclad Civil War vessel. Her father, Henry Todd, was a distinguished professor of romance languag…
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On the eve of Allen and Clover's wedding, which was held in October of 1920 in a wooded estate of the Todd family outside of Baltimore, her younger brother had sent word that he didn't feel hearty enough to attend the festivities. He said h…
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but she herself was otherwise occupied. That December, when the newlywed couple arrived in Constantinople, Allen's next diplomatic port of call, Clover heard that her brother Paul had suffered a nervous breakdown and was confined to a sanit…
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in bushes alongside of the road, not very far from the sanitarium. He had shot himself. Paul's death had plagued Clover for many years. In a certain sense, she said, I feel like I killed him. Clover quickly learned that the man she had marr…
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because his face was always buried in the newspaper. Dulles carefully insulated Clover from his life. He would fly off to distant locations at a moment's notice and not tell her where he was going or how long he was going to be gone. That's…
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Dulles would fill his letters home to Clover with references to his many dalliances and infatuations with other women. The life he invoked in these correspondence was filled with beautiful countesses and mixed cocktails, which evilly reinfo…
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his sister, once remarked on the difference between her two brothers. Foster, who was inseparable from his own wife, Janet, would go out of his way to help anyone in the family who was in distress. The pious older brother would even secure …
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Allen seemed always to be off somewhere, lying under a palm, getting himself fanned. Clover tried to keep the distress of her marriage from her children. She ran the family household in Manhattan and Long Island with efficiency. She took pa…
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Soon after she was reunited with Alan in Bern in 1945, she tried to put his extreme self-absorption in the best possible light for her daughter. By then, Alan had been away from home for over two years, during which time he had no contact w…
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especially you and Alan in your coming of age. Otherwise, it would not be possible for you to imagine how engrossed he is in his work and how he neither thinks, speaks of anything else. There is no doubt he is different from most, but I do …
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of believing that what we want is for him to do something worthwhile in the world. Talk about making excuses. Clover would write a more honest assessment of her husband in a diary that she left to her children. By then, she felt no obligati…
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took me a long time to realize that when he talks, it is only for the purpose of obtaining something. He talks easily with men who can give him information. He puts himself out with women who he thinks has interesting things or can do somet…
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talking to clover went to great lengths to rejoin alan in switzerland pulling every available string to acquire a visa and travel permits necessary for an american citizen to go to war-torn europe at last after hearing the u.s embassy in th…
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and joined the convoy as it took an arduous route through Portugal and Spain, crossing into France, where she and a dozen other drivers came under the protection of the French resistance fighters. It took a full week to make the journey. Ex…
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installed her in a different hotel and kept her waiting for two days. When he appeared at her hotel room, he informed her that he could only spare her 10 minutes after not seeing her for two years. He told her to meet him early the next mor…
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while Clover was crossing the Atlantic. Then he disappeared. Dulles told Mary soon after meeting her, my wife is an angel. She always is doing things for other people. After Clover began treatment with Jolande Jacoby, who was Dr. Carl's ass…
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Clover Dulles had great hopes for her second daughter, Joan, after she graduated from Ratcliffe College in 1944, where many of her classes had been integrated with Harvard due to the wartime shortage of professors. Clover wanted her daughte…