The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
This is a bold and profoundly important book, not only for the
portrait of the evil spymaster Allen Dulles, but even more so for its
examination of the legacy he spawned – the creation of a cabal hidden
behind the public face of the United States government that
secretly runs the country today on behalf of wealthy elites.
The psychopathic Allen Dulles was the enforcer for this group,
called “the power elite” by C. Wright Mills in the 1950s. In recent
years, especially since September 11, 2001, as its power has expanded,
it has been given different names – the deep state, the national
security state, deep politics,etc. – but that has not diminished its
power one jot. Like a patient who goes to a doctor seeking a label for
vague yet disturbing symptoms, people may feel relief from the naming,
but the dis-ease continues until the root cause is eliminated. Aye,
there’s the rub!
