Release Date:- 2015-10-13
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An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerfulāand secretiveācolossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.
Americaās greatest untold story: the United Statesā rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materialsāincluding newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dullesās wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officialsāTalbot reveals the underside of one of Americaās most powerful and influential figures.
Dullesās decade as the director of the CIAāwhich he used to further his public and private agendasāwere dark times in American politics. Calling himself āthe secretary of state of unfriendly countries,ā Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clientsācolluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
An exposĆ© of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devilās Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security stateāand the battle for Americaās soul.