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100 1  Talbot, David,|d1951-|eauthor. 
245 14 The devil's chessboard :|bAllen Dulles, the CIA, and the 
       rise of America's secret government /|cDavid Talbot. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHarper, an imprint of 
       HaperCollinsPublishers,|c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015. 
300    xiii, 686 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [621]-661) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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 assassinationof JFK. 
520    "An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, 
       the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and
       secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of 
       Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller 
       Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United 
       States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen 
       Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. 
       Drawing on revelatory new materials, including newly 
       discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European 
       intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and 
       journals of Allen Dulles's wife and mistress, and 
       exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA 
       officials, Talbot reveals the underside of one of 
       America's most powerful and influential figures. 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, manipulating and subverting American 
       presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and 
       those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and 
       clients colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war
       criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign 
       leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist 
       governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles 
       employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, 
       Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the 
       assassination of President John F. Kennedy. An expose of 
       American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The 
       Devil's Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of 
       the rise of the national security state and the battle for
       America's soul."--provided by publisher. 
600 10 Dulles, Allen,|d1893-1969. 
600 10 Kennedy, John F.|q(John Fitzgerald),|d1917-1963. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xOfficials and
       employees|vBiography. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xHistory|y20th
       century. 
650  0 Spies|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Intelligence service|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Intelligence officers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Official secrets|zUnited States. 
650  0 Espionage, American|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
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