>friend recommended I check out pic related when I asked him about his knowledge of the crises in the Middle East Jesus Christ the shit written in this book is some literal “take over the world”-tier villainy. Has anyone else read this book?
>>25641220He could just have said "jews"."The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot is a 2015 biography that examines the career of Allen Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, and his role in establishing the national security state. Talbot argues that Dulles transformed the agency into a powerful, secretive force that operated beyond the reach of elected officials and the law. The book details Dulles's alleged collusion with Nazi cartels and war criminals during and after World War II to further his political agendas. It also covers his orchestration of covert operations, including the overthrow of nationalist governments in Iran and Guatemala, and his involvement in mind control experiments.Talbot presents controversial claims that Dulles and the CIA were involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and potentially Robert F. Kennedy, viewing them as threats to the "secret government" and corporate interests. Critics have described the work as a provocative exposé of American power, while some reviewers characterize it as a rehashing of conspiracy theories."
>25641274>i dont read but i need to fit in
>>25641220Yeah, I read it. This book virtually proves that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy. I was not prepared for that. It was mindblowing.
>>25641748I can tell that you didn't get far into it if your only take away right now is Mideast conflicts. If you read on, it'll show you who did JFK and why. Dulles was running operations on how to assassinate presidents under false pretenses in other countries (South America, Africa, Mideast) and make the populations believe it was a lone gunman, sickness, or accident. He would then overthrow said nation. Dulles was linked to elite interests like the Rockefellers and was basically a fixer for them. He was 1 of the 7 members of the Warren Commission, and he was the most active member by far. Dulles was there to carefully control the narrative from the beginning. 1 of the other 7 was Gerald Ford, who would go on to become rewarded a Presidency for his role in the cover up.
>>25641220When you read this and Legacy of Ashes back to back you get a pretty incoherent view of the CIA. They both read as an attempted teardown from two different directions that make them both seem to lack integrity in the end.
>>25641220Probably the best work of non-fiction I've read this year. I look forward to starting Brothers, probably gonna be sooner than later.
>>25641220I read it nearly 10 years ago now, its a decent primer on the CIAs early history through grasping what Dulles was like. My memory is fuzzy on what Talbots JFK alternative theory was, but I do recall he leaned into the Cuban connection being behind it, and from reading the wider history since then, I come away it was a Mafia connected mongoose cell who turned their guns on the president. I would recommend you follow this up with Aaron Goods book American Exception.
>>25641962>through grasping what Dulles was like.Meant to add what he was like in relation to their early covert government overthrow programs. A lot of libtard Warren Commission trusters keep the Kennedy assassination in an ethropically sealed box when the wider context is that the CIA had already overthrown several governments prior, had been trying to do so in Cuba with the Mafias help, and then Kennedy end up getting his brains blown out barely a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis and after RFK turned on the Mafia. Another recommendation is O'Neils Chaos for his documenting that Jolly West (((diagnosed))) Jack Ruby's (a Jewish mobster no less) psychotic break.
>>25641970>ethropicallyEntropically*
>>25641220>Has anyone else read this book?i'm halfway through "legacy of ashes" by Weiner which is pretty good but in hindsight I would have read devil's chessboard instead. Legacy is a good book but it skirts over a lot of events (there's only so much you can fit into 1 book) I'll read devil's chessboard at some point im sure. I've got coll's book on the CIA in Iraq to read (The Achilles Trap) then I'm going balls deep into A table For Fortune by Vollmann.
>>25641984Don't sleep on Devil's Chessboard. Read it now. Put down Legacy. The first 100 pages will be tedious, but then it becomes a page turner and if you stick with it it's literally a mind blowing book that will reveal to you a hidden, dark history of this country. Allen Dulles was someone who put his own son into MK Ultra, yet history has widely been kind to him.
Is this book good? I got this book.
I gotta read this one. The Jakarta Method was pretty eye opening for the CIAs fuckery. Those fuckers have their fingers on everything. Mossad these days too, thats who I always assumed popped both JFK and RFK then blamed the second on a Palestinian kid.
>>25642420I haven’t read any of these books, admittedly, but the CIA is deeply incompetent. They tried countless times and couldn’t kill Castro. They put a Russian spy in charge of the operation to find Russian spies. The Chinese MSS oneshotted the entire CIA apparatus in China. The CIA are morons.
>>25642425Yeah but still pretty ludicrously devilish ones.They made fake monster corpses in Brazil to sway and election and insane shit like that.
