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
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xiii ; 686 pages, [16] pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
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.
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.
Publication Info:
New York : Harper, 2015.
©2015.
Subject:
| Spies -- United States -- Biography. |
| Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century. |
| Espionage, American -- History -- 20th century. |
| United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century |
| Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969 |
| United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History. |
| Dulles, Allen Welsh, 1893-1969 |
| Даллес, Аллен, 1893-1969 |
| Dalles, Allen, 1893-1969 |
| Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës |
| Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) |
| CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) |
| CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) |
| Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü |
| National Security Council (U.S.). Central Intelligence Agency |
| Si Aing Ei |
| T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA |
| T͡SRU SShA |
| T͡SRU (T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) |
| United States. Agencia Central de Inteligencia |
| United States. Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës |
| United States. Bạho Htauk Hlān Yēi Ạhpwẹ |
| United States. Central de Inteligencia Americana |
| United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde |
| United States. Chung yang chʻing pao chü |
| United States. Intelligence Agency, Central |
| United States. T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie |
| United States. Wakālat al-Mukhābarāt al-Markazīyah |
| United States. Центральное разведывательное управление |
| ЦРУ США |
| ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) |
| Центральное разведывательное управление США |
| ארצות הברית. סי. אי. איי |
| 美 !7o. 中央情報!; P |
| Agents, Secret |
| Intelligencers (Spies) |
| Operatives (Spies) |
| Secret agents |
| Spooks (Spies) |
| Spying |
| American espionage |
SAILS ISBN:
9780062276162