{"product_id":"intellectual-history-the-devils-chessboard-david-talbot","title":"Intellectual History:  \"The Devil's Chessboard,\" David Talbot","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrologue:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“That little Kennedy—he thought he was a god.” Allen Dulles\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --Dulles wanted to write his side of the story about the Bay of Pigs\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --“the failed invasion was the blackest day of my life.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --came after a long string of Dulles victories\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJFK: when he began his presidency, he kept Allen Dulles on, despite the obvious differences in their world outlooks.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllen Dulles was one of the wiliest masters of secret power ever produced in America\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--Sullivan and Cromwell, most powerful corporate law firm in the nation\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --the Dulles did not come from a wealthy family\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --shrewd talents\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --missionary drive, \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --powerful connections\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Foster Dulles: would rise to become the chief counsel for American power, Secretary of State\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAllen Dulles: knight errant in the world, head of the CIA\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --outmaneuvered and outlived FDR\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --stunned Harry Truman, CIA became powerful, lethal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --Eisenhower gave Dulles the immense license to fight communism\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--found JFK to be naïve, and a quick learner in Washington power games\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--when JFK was blamed for Bay of Pigs disaster, loyalist Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Kennedy had been tricked by his intelligence advisers into the disastrous Cuban venture\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--became the chair of the Warren Commission, investigating JFK’s assassination\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --was he an assassin?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDulles and the grow of the CIA\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --mind control experimentation\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --torture\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --political assassination,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --extraordinary rendition\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --massive surveillance of US citizens and foreign allies\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --other qualities\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --great cruelty: to intimates and enemies\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e --bragged about sending people to their deaths\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Devil's Chessboard\": 126 pages, 11,748 words, many visuals\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/allen_Dulles_480x480.jpg?v=1646258709\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/allen_Dulles_480x480.jpg?v=1646258709\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr. Brovsky's Vault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42573810532568,"sku":"","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/products\/allenDulles.jpg?v=1646258848","url":"https:\/\/mr-brovsky.myshopify.com\/products\/intellectual-history-the-devils-chessboard-david-talbot","provider":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}