As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, Allen oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He ordered the death of Patrice Lumumba, organised killings around the world.. and yet his name is unfamiliar. Today we get to know a man often described as a 'devil'