Mr Shako wrote:
Averill Harriman was Dulles' grandfather? I don't believe that's correct. Harriman, a Dem, was abut the same age as Dulles. Where did you get this info?
Your question is legit. An old biography I read about Dulles' sister, Eleanor Dulles, mentioned Harriman as their father's relative, of whom I assumed was a grandparent, has turned out to be a cousin several generations back through the Marvin sisters:
Averell Harriman born November 15, 1891
Allen Dulles born April 7, 1893
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-chart.php?name=42638+allen+dulles&kin=34876+averell+harriman&via=15769+matthew+marvin Family Relationship of Allen Dulles, 5th Director of the C.I.A.
It's interesting that the Dulles family went to work for Eisenhower after the war when they came from a family of dedicated Democrats.
These old family clans dot the landscape of New England and up-state New York, like the Irish Mafia of Boston.
Today, Mike Savage, a conservative Jewish talkshow host, was raging against Harvey Weinstein, asking the public today if his listeners could offer examples of other religions having defamatory leftwing dingbats of disgrace dragging them down. I thought for a moment, thinking of the Dulles gang, like the Rockefellers, who were Episcopalians and original allies of FDR and the Democrat Party. Today, we have the Irish Mafia, the Italian Mafia, the Jewish Mafia and the Muslim Brotherhood all united in organized crime, all championing the socialist/communist party as state sanctioned pickpockets. As they say, there is no honor amongst thieves.