{"id":14074,"date":"2015-11-02T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2015-11-02T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:02:49","slug":"a-new-biography-traces-the-pathology-of-allen-dulles-and-his-appalling-cabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14074","title":{"rendered":"A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal<\/a><\/h3>\n

AS I READ\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America\u2019s Secret Government<\/a><\/em>, a new book by\u00a0Salon<\/em><\/a>\u00a0founder David Talbot, I couldn\u2019t help thinking of an obscure corner of 1970s history: the Safari Club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dulles \u2014 the Princeton man and white shoe\u00a0corporate lawyer who served as\u00a0CIA director from 1953 to 1961, still the longest tenure in agency history \u2014 died in 1969 before the Safari Club was conceived. And nothing about it appears in\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Chessboard<\/em>.\u00a0<\/i>But to understand the Safari Club is to understand Allen Dulles and his milieu.<\/p>\n

Any normal person would likely hear the Safari Club saga as a frightening story of totally unaccountable power.\u00a0But if there\u2019s one thing to take away from\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Chessboard<\/em>, it\u2019s this: Allen Dulles would have seen it differently \u2014 as an inspiring tale of hope and redemption.<\/p>\n

Because what the Safari Club demonstrates is that Dulles\u2019 entire spooky world is beyond the reach of American democracy. Even the most energetic post-World War\u00a0II attempt to rein it in was in the end as effective as trying to lasso mist. And today we\u2019ve largely returned to the balance of power Dulles set up in the 1950s. As Jay Rockefeller\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in 2007 when he was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, \u201cDon\u2019t you understand the way intelligence works? Do you think that because I\u2019m chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say \u2018I want it, give it to me\u2019? They control it.\u00a0All<\/em>\u00a0of it.\u00a0All<\/em>\u00a0of it. All the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February 2002, Saudi Prince Turki Al Faisal, head of Saudi intelligence from 1977 until September 1, 2001, traveled to\u00a0Washington, D.C.<\/h3>\n

While there, Turki, who\u2019d graduated from Georgetown University in the same class as Bill Clinton, delivered a speech at his alma mater\u00a0that included an\u00a0unexpected history lesson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal AS I READ\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America\u2019s Secret Government, a new book by\u00a0Salon\u00a0founder David Talbot, I couldn\u2019t help thinking of an obscure corner of 1970s history: the Safari Club. Dulles \u2014 the Princeton man and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[4865,135,199,204,10309,10431,10430,701,10429,827],"class_list":["post-14074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-allen-dulles","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-democracy","tag-devils-chessboard","tag-jay-rockefeller","tag-safari-club","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-secret-government","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14075,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}