Cindy Sheehan Soapbox Rerun W/ David Talbot: The CIA and The Devils Chessboard
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GUEST: David Talbot
TOPIC: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
FROM AMAZON:
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.
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 newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.
Dulles’s decade 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, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.
Graphic by Anthony Freda
www.fredaart.com
Recently, I learned that at the end of WWII, Allen Dulles created a friendship with Rheinhard Gehlen to sponsor Nazi rocket scientists in North America, the UK, Australia and Argentina. The results were that thousands of Nazis were transported out of Germany ahead of the Nuremberg Tribunals, in spite of President Truman stating 'no Nazis will be allowed entry into the US'. Instead, many of these came through US Customs (without the president's knowledge, really?) with no passports but each had job offers in their pockets.
This was done through Project Overcast, Operation Paperclip, and a few other programs instigated by the CIA, Mossad and MI6. In Len Kasten's 2012 book "Alien World Order" a few 'group photographs' are shown with many of these 'refugees', of which none ever apologized for their Nazi crimes! Many of them were recruited for the space program so NASA should actually be called NAZI!
Thank you for this timely reminder of the ineptitude inherent in US foreign policy starting with the 'Cold War' at the end of the 2nd WW...where the Russians who defeated a Nazi German army at enormous cost...end up facing off the other fascist army...the US military and its inept, ignorant and arrogant white supremicists who dream of empire.