26, November 2016 The Devil’s Chessboard
David Talbot’s meticulously documented
best-selling book, ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ lays bare the dark activities of
the Dulles brothers and America’s Secret Government, the CIA. Allen Foster Dulles
assumed the role of the master spymaster projecting himself above the nation’s
laws and elected leaders targeting assassinations and overthrowing nationalist
governments yearning to be free from the yoke of American imperialism. This is
an extremely disturbing chapter in CIA’s dark history which has engendered so
much hostility.
In the later chapters of the book, Talbot
lays bare the official narrative of the Kennedy brothers’ assassinations which are
riddled with inconsistencies.
Contrary to the Warren Report, the Zapruder
film which captured the critical moments of the assassination showed President Kennedy’s
head “thrust back and to the left” concluding that someone was firing front the
front. This was corroborated by 121 witnesses in Dealey Plaza. Bobby Kennedy
privately dismissed the Warren Report as a public relations exercise and
refrained from public comment cognizant of his reduced power usurped by the
hostile Johnson. His silence was used to bolster the flawed Warren Report. Like
Oswald, Sirhan flatly denied he was responsible for Bobby Kennedy’s
assassination. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who conducted the autopsy, was convinced
there was a second gunman.
The ‘007 Dulles brothers provided the
template for Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney which brought great infamy with the
disastrous invasion of Iraq, and the rise of ISIS. Dead for nearly half a
century the dark shadow of the Dulles brothers lives on.
