Actually it was Joseph Goebbels QUOTATION: Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.
ATTRIBUTION: Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), German Nazi leader, Minister of Propaganda. Das Reich (Feb. 23, 1945).
Das Reich was a Nazi propaganda weekly. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase “iron curtain” (ein eiserner Vorhang) in this context.
A knowledge of history is required when one pulls words out from the past: Allen Welsh Dulles (April 23, 1893 - January 29, 1969) was an influential director of the CIA and a member of the Warren Commission. Dulles was also the younger brother of John Dulles. Dulles was fired by JFK for his part in drafting the audacious Operation Northwoods document, which called for the CIA to kill American citizens and frame Cubans, to gain popular support for a war with that country.