The devil's chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government
Title:
The devil's chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government
Author:
Talbot, David, 1951- author.
ISBN:
9780062276162
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2015?]
©2015
Physical Description:
xiii ; 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 16 Rome on the Potomac -- 17 The Parting Glass -- 18 The Big Event -- 19 The Fingerprints -- 20 For the Good of the Country -- 21 "I Can't Look and Won't Look" -- 22 End Game -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Describes how the longest-serving director of the CIA befriended the wealthy elite, targeted foreign leaders for assassination, and manipulated American presidents to further his own agenda, and offers new evidence of his involvement in the assassination of JFK.
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