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03843aam a2200421Mi 4500 001 4A74DB54300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 161020t20162015nyuaf b 001 0deng d 020 $a 0062276174 020 $a 9780062276179 035 $a (OCoLC)962258469 040 $a UX1 $b eng $e rda $c UX1 $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d T3H $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d FUG $d CTU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d BKL $d KAY $d SILO 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 4 $a JK468.I6 $b T35 2016 082 04 $a 327.12092 $2 23 100 1 $a Talbot, David, $d 1951- $e author. $9 458021 245 14 $a The devil's chessboard : $b Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government / $c David Talbot. 246 30 $a Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government 250 $a First Harper Perennial edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-661) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 $a Dulles, Allen, $d 1893-1969. $9 27262 600 10 $a Kennedy, John F. $q (John Fitzgerald), $d 1917-1963 $9 60021 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $x Officials and employees $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Spies $z United States $v Biography. $9 204984 650 0 $a Intelligence service $z United States $x History $y 20th century. $9 204985 650 0 $a Intelligence officers $z United States $v Biography. $9 237115 650 0 $a Official secrets $z United States. $9 202399 650 0 $a Espionage, American $z Soviet Union $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060307.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A74DB54300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search