New Book Ties Former CIA Director To American Corporatocracy, JFK Assassination

Friday, October 23, 2015
By Paul Martin

An expose of former CIA Director Allen Dulles by one of the founders of Salon ties him to the rise of corporate power in America, along with some of the agency’s worst deeds.

MintPressNews.com
October 21, 2015

WASHINGTON — The founder of Salon.com just published a biography of one of the Cold War’s most influential figures, and it contains controversial allegations that tie the CIA to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Almost 60 years after Kennedy’s killing, questions continue to swirl over whether the shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, or was supported by a conspiracy of allies that some believe had government ties. David Talbot’s new book, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” is renewing the debate with allegations about Dulles and his purported links to the assassination after Kennedy fired him from his post as the first civilian leader of the CIA.

In his book, Talbot, an independent journalist and the first editor-in-chief of progressive news site Salon, traces the rise to power of Allen Welsh Dulles, a diplomat and former lawyer who later led the CIA while it carried out some of its most notorious misdeeds. He was aided in his influence over the U.S. government by his older brother, John Foster Dulles, who became Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Before joining the ranks of the Washington elite, the brothers were partners at the powerful Wall Street law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell.

Allen Dulles took the helm at the CIA under the Eisenhower administration, and was allowed to remain in the role during most of Kennedy’s presidency. During a lengthy interview with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Talbot explained that Kennedy initially supported the CIA’s agenda, but gradually began to break away over the agency’s increasingly violent plans for Cuba after the “Bay of Pigs invasion,” a failed CIA-backed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in April 1961:

“So he was kind of sandbagged by the CIA. He did go through with [the Bay of Pigs invasion], but he had no intention of widening it into an all-out U.S. military assault on the island, on Cuba. But that’s what the CIA had in mind. … [W]hat they hoped and what they planned was that a young President Kennedy, as this invasion was bogged down on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs, would be forced then to send in the Marines and the U.S. Air Force to topple Castro.

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