The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

720 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative medium-paced
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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,...

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