Title The devil's chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government / David Talbot.

Publisher	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
	©2015

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Edition	First edition.
Physical Description	xiii, 686 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The double agent -- Human smoke -- Ghosts of Nuremberg -- Sunrise -- Ratlines -- Useful people -- Little mice -- Scoundrel time -- The power elite -- The Dulles imperium -- Strange love -- Brain warfare -- Dangerous ideas -- The torch is passed -- Contempt -- Rome on the Potomac -- The parting glass -- The big event -- The fingerprints of intelligence -- For the good of the country -- "I can't look and won't look" -- End game -- Epilogue.
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.
Subject	Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969.
	Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
	Spies -- United States -- Biography.
	United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
	Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Espionage, American -- History -- 20th century.
	Official secrets -- United States.
Alternate Title	Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government