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The New Yorker
February 19, 2018
The Cold War was a looking-glass war.) In 1954, fresh from his success with Magsaysay, Lansdale was sent to South Vietnam by the director of the C.I.A., Allen Dulles, with instructions to do there what he had done in the Philippines: see to the establishment of a pro-Western government and assist it in finding ways to checkÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 19, 2018
The Dulles Doctrine — born in a 1971 novel, and gaining new life after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 — was a supposed plot by Allen Dulles, the C.I.A. director from 1953 to 1961, to destroy the Soviet Union by corrupting its moral values and cultural heritage. That, as the West has learned in the lastÃÂ ...
The New Times
February 17, 2018
Later that day, at National Security Council meeting, the president ordered Director Allen Dulles to 'eliminate a man the CIA saw as the Fidel Castro of Africa – Patrice Lumumba,' the prime minister of the Congo. Lumumba was not a Communist. But he was suspected to be one by CIA. Shortly after beingÃÂ ...
Voltaire Network
February 13, 2018
The recycling of the SS was organised by the CIA's first director, Allen Dulles, and his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. No-one was aware of this until the US Congress discovered the size and the consequences of this operation. The Church and Nedzi-Pike Commissions, as well as the UnitedÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
February 12, 2018
Only after he encounters an American spymaster named the Professor, who is based on CIA director Allen Dulles, the brother of John Foster Dulles and a charter member of the American Establishment, does Thornhill begin to decipher the turbulent series of events, including a harrowing encounter with theÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
February 12, 2018
CIA directors have been disclaiming any policy role since the agency's earliest days, when Allen Dulles used the word “myth” and termed assertions of a policy role the most harmful assertion made about the agency. Current CIA director Mike Pompeo told an audience last spring he could “leave to othersÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 31, 2018
... and Turkey, and the author of books such as The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War and All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. In his latest book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire,ÃÂ ...
People's World
January 25, 2018
Even before his Fulton speech, the term was used by Allen Dulles of OSS intelligence at the end of 1945 in occupied Germany. Dulles, John Foster Dulles' brother, would later head the CIA under Eisenhower (he was removed by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs). There is one every important point which isÃÂ ...
MuckRock
January 19, 2018
One of the more fascinating revelations in the Central Intelligence Agency's archives is the fact that, on two separate occasions, the Agency has had the White House bury time capsules of CIA materials in the walls of their buildings. The first box was jokingly referred to by Director Allen Dulles as containingÃÂ ...
SFGate
January 10, 2018
In addition I had access to many declassified documents seen by no previous historian-for example Lansdale's top-secret report to CIA Director Allen Dulles on how he got Ramon Magsaysay elected president of the Philippines in 1953. Together this new documentary record allowed me to provide theÃÂ ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
January 8, 2018
... has a penchant for pushing conspiracy theories, ranging from wild speculation about Obama's sexual orientation to claiming that Adolf Hitler escaped Germany with the help of Allen Dulles, who would later become the CIA director. Corsi has now written “decode” analyses of the messages “Q” has postedÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
January 4, 2018
Turner deftly recounts the multinational Cassia team's heroic exploits and their contact with OSS Bern Chief and later CIA Director Allen Dulles, as well as the ring's tradecraft errors that got most of them killed. With panoramic descriptions of the infamous Gestapo headquarters and detention center, TurnerÃÂ ...
Bowling Green Daily News
December 31, 2017
Along the way, Prados features the agency's heroes, patriots and schemers, including legendary early directors Walter Bedell Smith and Allen Dulles. It is an account that relies notably on documents including those released by the CIA itself, as detailed in 22 pages of endnotes. While acknowledging CIAÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 20, 2017
Adding to that, Mellen explained in her book mentioned above, that the family of former CIA Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles (left photo), had been very 'interested' in Permindex. In 2005, Dr. Daniele Ganser stated that a highly secretive CIA-backed paramilitary army was “born out of the head ofÃÂ ...
Syracuse New Times
December 13, 2017
But we know beyond a doubt that a handful of powerful men in Washington coordinated the cover-up, including former CIA director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, who served as the agency's liaison with theÃÂ ...
MuckRock
December 7, 2017
... 25 years, date back to this early time, to the days when the CIA was still the Office of Strategic Services and includes multiple reports on the Agency's attempts to evaluate its mission and execution, including an early one, dated January 1949, from soon-to-be Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles.
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
August 2, 2017
Last week, WhoWhatWhy commemorated the 70th birthday of the CIA with an excerpt from author David Talbot's book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. As a followup, in this podcast interview with WhoWhatWhy's Jeff Schechtman, originally airedÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
July 26, 2017
When it comes to behind-the-scenes intrigue, no one could out-sinister Allen Dulles, director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles's job, simply put, was to hijack the US government — for the benefit of the wealthy. What he did, and how he did it, has never been more relevant, given the state of the nation inÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
CIA directors have been disclaiming any policy role since the agency's earliest days, when Allen Dulles used the word “myth” and termed assertions of a policy role the most harmful assertion made about the agency. Current CIA director Mike Pompeo told an audience last spring he could “leave to othersÃÂ ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
December 31, 1999
The tragic CIA record is outlined in a book: “The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government,” by David Talbot. It says “rabid anti-communism” consumed Washington in those days, and the CIA furtively aided foreign assassinations, as well as other treachery.
Phoenix New Times
December 31, 1999
"[T]his trafficking of human jihadists is approved by the president himself and being protected by rogue elements of the CIA, FBI, and DEA — the same rogue elements that have been smuggling drugs, guns, gold, cash, and small children for the American elite ever since Allen Dulles and J. Edgar HooverÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 20, 2017
Adding to that, Mellen explained in her book mentioned above, that the family of former CIA Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles (left photo), had been very 'interested' in Permindex. In 2005, Dr. Daniele Ganser stated that a highly secretive CIA-backed paramilitary army was “born out of the head ofÃÂ ...
The National Memo (blog)
December 19, 2017
During the 1950s, Allen Dulles used the CIA as a vehicle to recruit a collection of Nazi war criminals and mafia henchmen for covert anti-communist campaigns across Europe, develop the failed mind control program MK ULTRA and plot assassinations and international intrigues in order to topple popularÃÂ ...
Progressive.org
December 15, 2017
Among the real-life figures we encounter via vintage clips are former CIA Directors Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and William Colby, who was involved in the CIA's murderous Phoenix Program in Vietnam and, like Olson, died mysteriously. Those Ford White House apparatchiks, Dick Cheney and DonaldÃÂ ...
Syracuse New Times
December 13, 2017
But we know beyond a doubt that a handful of powerful men in Washington coordinated the cover-up, including former CIA director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton, who served as the agency's liaison with theÃÂ ...
theday.com
December 1, 2017
He met and charmed Allen Dulles, soon to be the first civilian director of the CIA. For training, he was dispatched to Bletchley Park, the British espionage headquarters, where he apprenticed with legendary British spies such as Kim Philby. Readers who recognize Philby's name will understand that Angleton ...
Salon
November 29, 2017
Talbot most recently worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. A former senior editor for Mother Jones, he's the author of several nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestseller "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years" and 2015's "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, ...
Constitution Daily (blog)
November 29, 2017
In his executive order announcement, President Johnson named seven prominent figures to the commission: Warren, Senators Richard Russell and John Sherman Cooper, Representatives Gerald Ford and Hale Boggs, former CIA director Allen Dulles and Council on Foreign Relations chair John McCloy.
Dissident Voice
November 22, 2017
Then read David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government for further clarification.
Center for Research on Globalization
November 21, 2017
Then read David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government for further clarification.
Wicked Local Brookline
November 17, 2017
“The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War” by Stephen Kinzer will be discussed. The Dec. 19 selection will be ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 6, 2017
He met and charmed Allen Dulles, soon to be the first civilian director of the CIA. For training, he was dispatched to Bletchley Park, the British ...
New York Times
October 29, 2017
That meant he was working with Allen Dulles and helped to negotiate the surrender of all German forces. So the villain was no villain at all.
The New Yorker
October 29, 2017
... prepared for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, summarizes the evidence flatly, stating that Allen Dulles, the head of the C.I.A., ...
Esquire.com
October 26, 2017
(Allen Dulles's presence on the commission was, in and of itself, reason to be dubious about it.) Even if you believe that, rushed and ...
London Review of Books
October 25, 2017
As early as March 1951, Allen Dulles, then a deputy director at the CIA, thought it likely that Iran would be 'lost to the West in the coming twelve ...
The Independent
October 23, 2017
Yet David Talbot argues in The Devil's Chessboard – a biography of legendary CIA spymaster Allen Dulles, which reads more like a Hollywood ...
FloGrappling
October 23, 2017
Add another entry to Jeff Monson's case file of 'atypical' behavior: This time, singing and dancing alongside a Russian satirical country rock ...
CBS Miami
October 22, 2017
However, conspiracy alarms were raised when former CIA head Allen Dulles was appointed as one of seven commissioners to investigate, ...
Politico
October 21, 2017
... managing plans for an invasion, one that, moreover, Kennedy, following his nomination, had been informed of by CIA Director Allen Dulles.
Politico
October 21, 2017
... managing plans for an invasion, one that, moreover, Kennedy, following his nomination, had been informed of by CIA Director Allen Dulles.
MuckRock
October 13, 2017
A decade later, a copy of the communication found its way into the CIA archives via a May 8th, 1952 memo from Allen Dulles, then Deputy ...
Auburn Citizen
October 5, 2017
Allen Dulles. According to Wise, Dulles was quoted in several newspaper articles from the 1910s, preaching that he did not think women ...
The Spokesman-Review
October 4, 2017
And even earlier, then CIA Director Allen Dulles wrote a letter to the defense secretary in which he pushed for rapid development of an ...
Belfast Telegraph
September 29, 2017
Yet David Talbot argues in The Devil's Chessboard - a biography of legendary CIA spymaster Allen Dulles, which reads more like a Hollywood ...
The Boston Globe
September 29, 2017
The legendary CIA director Allen Dulles used to boast privately that his list of paid informants included at least one cabinet minister in each ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
August 2, 2017
David Talbot's new book The Devil's Chessboard (left) is about the reign and influence of CIA director Allen Dulles (right). Photo credit: Book ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
July 26, 2017
When it comes to behind-the-scenes intrigue, no one could out-sinister Allen Dulles, director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles's job, simply ...
Greensboro News & Record
May 20, 2017
However, if you want to read the story of a real spy, you should read about Allen Dulles (1893-1969), the first civilian head of the CIA. Though ...
Salon
December 31, 1999
During the 1950s, Allen Dulles used the CIA as a vehicle to recruit a collection of Nazi war criminals and mafia henchmen for covert anti-communist campaigns across Europe, develop the failed mind control program MK ULTRA and plot assassinations and international intrigues in order to topple popularÃÂ ...
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