Dulles, Virginia takes its name from former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1888–1959). Orbital ATK has its headquarters on Warp Drive in Dulles. AOL had its headquarters at 22000 AOL Way in Dulles. In 2007 AOL announced that it would move its headquarters from Loudoun County to New York City; though it would continue to operate its Virginia offices. Before its dissolution, FLYi, Inc./Independence Air (originally Atlantic Coast Airlines) was headquartered in Dulles. Prior to its dissolution, MAXjet Airways was headquartered on the grounds of Washington Dulles International Airport and in Dulles. Cryptek was headquartered in Dulles before its acquisition
John Foster Dulles the Soviet Union to gain influence in Egypt, as it forced Nasser to turn to the Soviets for weapons. Dulles served as the Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (later the National Council of Churches), the Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952. Dulles was also a founding member of Foreign Policy Association and Council of Foreign Relations. Dulles developed colon cancer, for which he was first operated on