Pick five key players of the cold war and identify their role

Allen Dulles

The director of the CIA under Eisenhower, who advocated extensive use of covert operations. Most notable among Dulles initiatives were U. S.-sponsored coups in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954, which installed pro-American governments in order to curb potential expansion of Communism. Although Eisenhower favored such covert operations because they were relatively low-cost and attracted little attention, the coups in Iran and Guatemala proved rather transparent and caused international anger toward the United States.