Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tare da jagorancin Eisenhower da jagorancin Dulles, ayyukan CIA sun karu a karkashin zargin yin tsayayya da yaduwar kwaminisanci a kasashe matalauta; CIA a wani bangare ta sauke shugabannin Iran a cikin Operation Ajax, na Guatemala ta hanyar Operation Pbsuccess, kuma mai yiwuwa sabon 'yancin kai
Jamhuriyar Kwango (Léopoldville). A shekara ta 1954, Eisenhower ya so ya ƙara sa ido a cikin Tarayyar Soviet. Tare da shawarwarin Dulles, ya ba da izinin turawa talatin Lockheed U-2s a farashin dala miliyan 35 (daidai da dala miliyan a). Gwamnatin Eisenhower ta kuma shirya mamayar Bay of Pigs don kifar da Fidel Castro a Cuba, wanda John F. Kennedy ya bari ya aiwatar.