{"id":13897,"date":"2015-10-28T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2015-10-28T06:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:59:34","slug":"checkmate-on-the-devils-chessboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13897","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate on \u2018The Devil\u2019s Chessboard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/10\/27\/checkmate-on-the-devils-chessboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Checkmate on \u2018The Devil\u2019s Chessboard\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>Exclusive:\u00a0<\/strong>Since the end of World War II,\u00a0what some call the \u201cdeep state\u201d has taken hold of the American Republic, stripping the citizens of meaningful control over national security issues, with CIA Director Allen Dulles playing a key early role, according to David Talbot\u2019s new biography reviewed by Lisa Pease.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>David Talbot\u2019s new book\u00a0<em>The Devil\u2019s Chessboard<\/em>\u00a0is an anecdotal biography of not just Allen Dulles but of the national security establishment that he helped create. Talbot gave himself the monumental task of summing up a 25-year slice of important history.<\/p>\n<p>Because Talbot has a keen eye for both the absurd and the darkly humorous, he managed to make the disturbing history of that period not only eminently readable but engaging and at times downright entertaining.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16190\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"CIA Director Allen Dulles\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have consumed dozens of books on Allen Dulles, the CIA and Cold War history, yet I was still surprised by numerous revelations in Talbot\u2019s book. He often covers well-known episodes through a less well-known set of incidents and characters.<\/p>\n<p>Talbot\u00a0writes about the ratlines (escape routes from Europe to Latin America for Nazis), but in the context of one particularly Machiavellian character. He writes about Lee Harvey Oswald from the point of view of one of his friends who sold him down the river to the Warren Commission, likely at the behest of the CIA, a friend who later ostensibly committed suicide just as a member of the House Select Committee on Assassinations\u00a0was about to interview him. Talbot\u00a0talks about the CIA\u2019s mind-control programs in the context of Allen Dulles submitting his own son to those horrors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checkmate on \u2018The Devil\u2019s Chessboard\u2019 Exclusive:\u00a0Since the end of World War II,\u00a0what some call the \u201cdeep state\u201d has taken hold of the American Republic, stripping the citizens of meaningful control over national security issues, with CIA Director Allen Dulles playing a key early role, according to David Talbot\u2019s new biography reviewed by Lisa Pease. 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