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James Srodes' book is a cuddly, syrupy, hero-worshipping biography, which completely ignores the murderous, fascist atrocities perpetrated by Allen Dulles and his gang of CIA "patriots."
James Srodes is either a gullible spy worshipper or a disinformationist worthy of a CIA security clearance. His whitewashed version of Allen Dulles's life and the role of the CIA in 20th century America will, no doubt ... more », comfort those who believe American intelligence worked for the greater good of democracy, but it will be ridiculed and reviled by those who know the real history of CIA atrocities.
Strode glosses over Dulles's diabolical deeds, so let's enumerate them here, lest the lies infect potential readers.
Operation Paperclip, the safe evacuation of Nazi war criminals after WWII, was Dulles's brainchild. Monsters like Walter Dornberger, Hubertus Strughold, Reinhard Gehlen, and thousands of others were rescued from the hangman's noose and given jobs, security clearances, and cushy jobs in America's military-industrial-intelligenc complex. Why? So that the CIA could use their unique skills in the Cold War. Some of those skills were brainwashing/drugging/torturing know-how, implemented in Dulles's MK-ULTRA, the search for the Manchurian Candidate. In the process, innocent Americans were tortured and murdered (including the CIA's own Dr. Frank Olson, who threatened to blow the whistle on the whole operation)in an experiment that ultimately was an abysmal failure.
Dulles and the CIA did not stop there. They subverted and sabotaged the free press in America, through coercion of honest media assets and the planting of CIA media assets. Frank Wisner, who ran the program for Dulles in the '50s, once boasted that Operation Mockingbird, as it was called, was like his own "mighty Wurlitzer. I can play any tune I want on it, and America will follow along." The goal was to suppress any exposure of the CIA's black ops, and spread propaganda about left-leaning movements here and abroad. William Colby, head of CIA for a time in the '70s, admitted that "the CIA owns everyone of any significance at all major media outlets."
The assassinations of duly elected leaders and the installation of fascist tyrants in their place is a book unto itself. Space is limited here, so let's just say Dulles sanctioned and implemented too many plots to catalogue.
Given these facts, one has to wonder where Srodes gets his information and what his motives were for writing such a sanitized, Pollyanna-ish version of Dulles's career. Since Dulles, it can be argued, was one of the most powerful figures of the 20th century, authors compelled to write about him have an obligation to dig below the surface and find the truth of his life. Srodes apparently neither needed nor desired to exert the effort.
Tim Fleming
www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi.html
http://www.blazingtrailers.com/show.php?title=441
http://leftlooking.blogspot.com
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