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DATE: Sunday, November 3, 1996               TAG: 9611040070
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-4  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
                                             TYPE: NEWS OBIT

DIPLOMAT, AUTHOR DIES AT AGE 101 SHE HELPED W. BERLIN RECOVER AFTER WWII

Eleanor Lansing Dulles, the U.S. diplomat and member of a prominent family, has died at the age of 101.

She died Wednesday at a military retirement facility in Washington from complications related to a stroke.

Dulles had two famous brothers: John Foster Dulles, who was President Eisenhower's secretary of state, and Allen Dulles, who was Eisenhower's director of central intelligence. Her grandfather, John Watson Foster, was secretary of state under President Benjamin Harrison, and an uncle, Robert Lansing, held that post under President Wilson.

Dulles founded and led the State Department's Berlin desk in the 1950s, helping post-World War II West Berlin to recover.

She also wrote 13 books, covering U.S. foreign policy, European politics, the life of John Foster Dulles and her memoirs.

- Associated Press

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