The Devil's Chessboard

As always with books like this, I found it fascinating and disturbing all at once. From other books, I've learned Allen Dulles was a sketchy guy but I've never gone out of my way to read a book that solely (or largely) focused on him. I was buying another JFK/CIA related book at a consignment shop when the owner immediately passed me a sticky note and said, “I'm going to tell you the name of another book...” I looked it up later that night and bought it immediately. Here I am a month later.

This book reenforced my theory that organizations such as the ones connected to Dulles are to blame for the deep state of corruption we are in presently. It didn't happen overnight and it wasn't one man alone, but an awful lot of them were connected to Dulles in some way. The legacy continues. Some other gaps were filled, too, from WWII-Lyndon Johnson — even Nixon! Very informative.