Editing Allen Dulles (section)

===Dismissal===
[[File:Allen Dulles appointed DCI, 26 February 1953.jpg|thumb|180px|Kennedy presents the National Security Medal to Dulles, November 28, 1961.]]
During the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] Administration, Dulles faced increasing criticism.<ref name=EB1970YB/> In autumn 1961, following the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion|Bay of Pigs incident]] and the [[Algiers putsch of 1961|Algiers putsch]] against [[Charles de Gaulle]], Dulles and his entourage, including [[Deputy Director for Plans]] [[Richard M. Bissell Jr.]] and Deputy Director [[Charles Cabell]], were forced to resign. On November 28, 1961, Kennedy presented Dulles with the [[National Security Medal]] at the CIA Headquarters in [[Langley, Virginia]].<ref>John F. Kennedy. [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8461 Remarks Upon Presenting an Award to Allen W. Dulles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017041752/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8461 |date=October 17, 2016}}, November 28, 1961 (Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project).</ref> The next day, November 29, the White House released a resignation letter signed by Dulles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-029-021.aspx |title=Dulles, Allen W., June 1959-November 1962 |publisher=Jfklibrary.org |access-date=November 5, 2014}}</ref> He was replaced by [[John McCone]].

Dulles referred to the Bay of Pigs failure as "the worst day of my life"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rorabaugh |first1=W.J. |title=Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties |date=2002 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=29}}</ref> and developed a strong dislike of Kennedy, later telling journalist [[Willie Morris]] "that little Kennedy, he thought he was a god".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Willie |title=New York Days |date=1993 |publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]] |page=36}}</ref> Dulles found life outside the CIA difficult, with his friend [[James Angleton]] recalling "He had a very difficult time to decompress".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holzman |first1=Michael Howard |title=James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence |date=2008 |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Press]] |page=332}}</ref>