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The Devils Chessboard, by David Talbot
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
Posted: October 25th, 2015
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Devil-s-Chessboard-b...
David Talbot despises Allen Dulles. As director of the CIA, Talbot declares, Dulles exemplified the frightening amorality that prevailed at the pinnacle of American power at the height of the Cold War. As a lawyer for Sullivan and Cromwell in the 1930s, Dulles protected and promoted Nazi-controlled cartels. He used his influence in the Office of Strategic Services and the CIA to shield former Nazis from prosecution for war crimes in the 40s and 50s. Dulles organized the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, [and was] willing to manipulate and undercut American presidents. In The Devils Chessboard, David Talbot, the founder and former editor in chief of Salon and former senior editor at Mother Jones, examines Dulles career and adds several more achievements to his dark resume. Talbots indictment is long. He suggests that had President Franklin D. Roosevelt lived, Dulles might well have faced criminal charges for hiding the U.S. assets of German corporations and destroying incriminating evidence. By 1963, Talbot insists, a clear consensus had emerged among corporate leaders and within Americas deep state that Kennedy was a threat to national security and had to be removed. Dulles, they concluded, was the only man with the stature, connections, and decisive will to make something of this enormity happen." [Dulles] then lobbied Lyndon Johnson to appoint him to the Warren Commission, where he saw to it that Lee Harvey Oswald would take the fall as the lone gunman.
Note: Read another good article on Talbot's book revealing evidence in the JFK killing. And isn't it interesting that no other major media seemed to find this book worth a review, even though Talbot is well known as the founder of the website Salon.
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