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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
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The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
David Talbot
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, newly discovered U.S. government documents, and U.S. and European intelligence sources - Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.Dulles’s decades as the director of the CIA - which he used to further his public and private agendas - were dark times in American politics. Calling himself ‘the secretary of state of unfriendly countries’, 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 clients - colluding 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, culminating in the assassination of his political enemy, John F. Kennedy.Indeed, The Devil’s Chessboard offers shocking new evidence in the killings of both President Kennedy and his brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. This is an expose of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state - and the battle for America’s soul.
Copyright (#ucb0e78d6-37f6-5f62-8467-92bd478b818a)
William Collins
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.williamcollinsbooks.com (http://www.williamcollinsbooks.com)
First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2015
First published in the USA by Harper in 2015
Copyright © 2015 by The Talbot Players, LLC.
Cover photograph © AP/PA Images. Design © Kate Gaughran
David Talbot asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780008159665
Ebook Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 9780008159672
Version: 2016-09-27
Dedication (#ucb0e78d6-37f6-5f62-8467-92bd478b818a)
To Karen Croft, who dared to know
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
—THE INSCRIPTION CHOSEN BY ALLEN DULLES FOR THE LOBBY OF CIA HEADQUARTERS, FROM
JOHN 8:31–32
The Colonel laughed unpleasantly. “My dear friend, Dimitrios would have nothing to do with the actual shooting. No! His kind never (#litres_trial_promo) risk their skins like that. They stay on the fringe of the plot. They are the professionals, the entrepreneurs, the links between the businessmen, the politicians who desire the end but are afraid of the means, and the fanatics, the idealists who are prepared to die for their convictions. The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”
—A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS, ERIC AMBLER
Contents
Cover (#u17004c21-b862-535e-b435-9456205785a2)
Title Page (#uaa064db2-74c2-50c5-9423-2e00ba5f2086)
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph (#u81f1ffd4-6524-595d-8486-1c05968bce34)
Prologue
Part I
1. The Double Agent
2. Human Smoke
3. Ghosts of Nuremberg
4. Sunrise
5. Ratlines
Part II
6. Useful People
7. Little Mice
8. Scoundrel Time
9. The Power Elite
10. The Dulles Imperium
11. Strange Love
12. Brain Warfare
13. Dangerous Ideas
14. The Torch Is Passed
Part III
15. Contempt
David Talbot
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, newly discovered U.S. government documents, and U.S. and European intelligence sources - Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.Dulles’s decades as the director of the CIA - which he used to further his public and private agendas - were dark times in American politics. Calling himself ‘the secretary of state of unfriendly countries’, 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 clients - colluding 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, culminating in the assassination of his political enemy, John F. Kennedy.Indeed, The Devil’s Chessboard offers shocking new evidence in the killings of both President Kennedy and his brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. This is an expose of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state - and the battle for America’s soul.
Copyright (#ucb0e78d6-37f6-5f62-8467-92bd478b818a)
William Collins
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.williamcollinsbooks.com (http://www.williamcollinsbooks.com)
First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2015
First published in the USA by Harper in 2015
Copyright © 2015 by The Talbot Players, LLC.
Cover photograph © AP/PA Images. Design © Kate Gaughran
David Talbot asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780008159665
Ebook Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 9780008159672
Version: 2016-09-27
Dedication (#ucb0e78d6-37f6-5f62-8467-92bd478b818a)
To Karen Croft, who dared to know
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
—THE INSCRIPTION CHOSEN BY ALLEN DULLES FOR THE LOBBY OF CIA HEADQUARTERS, FROM
JOHN 8:31–32
The Colonel laughed unpleasantly. “My dear friend, Dimitrios would have nothing to do with the actual shooting. No! His kind never (#litres_trial_promo) risk their skins like that. They stay on the fringe of the plot. They are the professionals, the entrepreneurs, the links between the businessmen, the politicians who desire the end but are afraid of the means, and the fanatics, the idealists who are prepared to die for their convictions. The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”
—A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS, ERIC AMBLER
Contents
Cover (#u17004c21-b862-535e-b435-9456205785a2)
Title Page (#uaa064db2-74c2-50c5-9423-2e00ba5f2086)
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph (#u81f1ffd4-6524-595d-8486-1c05968bce34)
Prologue
Part I
1. The Double Agent
2. Human Smoke
3. Ghosts of Nuremberg
4. Sunrise
5. Ratlines
Part II
6. Useful People
7. Little Mice
8. Scoundrel Time
9. The Power Elite
10. The Dulles Imperium
11. Strange Love
12. Brain Warfare
13. Dangerous Ideas
14. The Torch Is Passed
Part III
15. Contempt