The Devil's Chessboard book
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“on a best-selling book intended to prove that there was nothing conspiratorial about the events in Dallas. Only serendipity. A generous young mother takes in family of the future assassinated President Kennedy, the future assassin of Presid…”
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The guy who wrote the book called The Devil's Chest for David Talbot. So he has a very interesting quote with some guy on a committee. I think it's in the Hoover Institute where regarding Alan Dulles and somebody there quoting something to …
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Well said. All right. So we're going to trudge on into the devil's chessboard. So this is the prologue. We're going to start off with a quote. That little Kennedy, he thought he was a god. The words were sharp and wrong. And basically is ki…
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The book goes on and talks a little bit about that conversation and where Morris had come from. And it says, Morris was the most touted magazine editor of his generation and on his way to becoming the youngest editor of Harper at 32. Under …
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cowled in the mine. The country's cheerleaders are wedded to the notion of America exceptionalism. The devil's chessboard seeks to shine a torch down the well of deep politics, as Peter Del Scott calls it. In researching the book, the autho…
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quoted in this book often. She was trying to make sense of how she could have been so oblivious to this violent rush of history as a younger woman, even as it roared right through her own living room. And that sets the tone for David Talbot…
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any of the more current books, like we're going to do The Devil's Chessboard, but they all go back to, you know, the post-World War II and how this thing came forward. But then they always also transition into what's going on today. The pro…
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If you don't have the basis down yet, you're not going to understand the nuances of these books. And I want to show you an example. In the devil's chess board, there's a passage on page 190. And I'm just going to read the first couple of se…
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Best sources of information. Okay. There's one I've got queued up. It's called The Devil's Chessboard. We're going to do that next. Oh, cool. So that is definitely a great book. And that is our next book. That's awesome. Yeah. So you're thi…
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Since we just finished The Devil's Chessboard, this book will give us a different perspective of an operation that it didn't even cover. Because it starts out with a statement that is made 30 years after the fact. And it says that JFK's man…
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Because its purpose was to ensure there was no tendency for Congress to get involved. Alan Dulles made appropriate conciliatory comments, which he always does. We learned that in The Devil's Chessboard. He says whatever is necessary in meet…
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the facts, the logical conclusion is that the Bay of Pigs was meant to fail. And you're going to have to create a very strong argument that that's not true because the facts lead you in that direction. And the aftermath of that, when we've …
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With maybe the exception of William Bloom. The authors, even in The Devil's Chessboard, the authors always, it's like they're going 100 miles an hour to the point and then at the very end do a straight nosedive. They never come out and basi…
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Ike replaced him at the agency with Alan Dulles, the same guy that was just representing Sullivan and Cromwell in Iran. John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State. The Iran covert project moved ahead. Although Gordon Gray may have been di…
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Oh, yeah, lobotomize my daughter. His niece. Yeah, his niece. His niece. Yeah, it just blows my mind. They call the book The Devil's Chessboard for a reason. He is the devil. He is a devil. He was a living, breathing version of the devil. I…
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go live so um hopefully it'll show up over on rumble momentarily again if the first couple of minutes it doesn't show up please let me know um because we'll have to figure out a different way to do it all right thank you so we're on chapter…
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Interesting. Yes, I thought it was when I ran across it and went, what the heck? Nobody's talking about the LBJ connections to the Murchison family as well as Hoover's connections. I searched the book Devil's Chessboard for it. The Murchiso…
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Don't forget, this book was written before – I'm trying to remember the JFK Washington Post assassination reporter who's really covered this, and he was at a congressional hearing about a year ago. They finally released the last JFK files t…
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the assassination in Dallas. So that's a piece of out-of-sample information that David Talbot didn't have when he was putting this book together. Yeah, because this book was published in 2015. Yeah, and I think it's just, I think that if yo…
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Good afternoon, Colonel. Hey, Bridget. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. Let me get us live over here on Rumble. Okay. Woo. Crazy day today. Okay. So, let's get started. We are on part 24 of our series on The Devil's Chessboard.…
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And to me, that's because he was in the command post making sure it happened. I'm too far into this to look at any of this objectively. And what's fascinating to me is, you know, I had not, I read the devil's chess board about six months ag…
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Life's good. All right. So we're on part five of the devil's chess board in the chapter called Sunrise, which was Operation Sunrise, which gave birth to Operation Gladio. Okay. And we left off towards the end of the chapter with Wolf being,…
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It's not going to be done until tomorrow. So I don't want to talk about it until it actually happens. So you guys will definitely not want to miss tomorrow's show. It is such a small world. Such a small world. It's crazy. All right. So we'r…
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chapter is a little weird, so we're going to kind of skim through it. This chapter is titled Useful People, and it's primarily, I have to cover it, otherwise I'd have just skipped the whole chapter, but it goes to the heart of who Alan Dull…
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Because I come away from this entire book that the man's a machine. He's not like a human being. And you guys can tell me your opinion when we get done. But this chapter is about Alan Dulles' wife, Clover. And it starts off with introducing…
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has advocated for dismantling certain government agencies. So I don't see why that's happened when he's not being throttled. Well, I'm sure his account is not throttled. But anyway, we're going to move on because it pisses me off. All right…
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You remember the Russians and the Japanese fought in 1904, and they were enemies, and they even fought a little bit in 1939. It's just amazing to me. I've listened to this book, but Devil's Chessboard, I haven't. I need to go back and re-li…
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Right? Absolutely. All right. Alon, go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. Regarding Brothers, I mean, it's a good book, but given his choice, I think The Devil's Chest for it is a better book. And also, I'm just trying to encourage people to really spread…
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You never see a combination of Paige Turner with like, holy crap, why did I never hear about this, even though I do nothing but read Cold War history? It's a true gem. It's just incredible. Yeah, that is a very good book, The Devil's Checkb…
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I know you've read called The Devil's Chessboard, wherein JFK, you know, attempts to call up Charles de Gaulle and says, yo, comma, Chuck, these, you know, quote, my CIA is helping your, quote, OAS try to kill you. And I cannot control them…
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That's a really, really bad book. And I'm like, I'm sorry to be so dogmatic and kind of simplistic zombie sounding about it. But the reason I think it's worth so much emphasis, it's kind of like an entry level general audience book, right? …
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Look, I'm not saying people don't read Legacy of Ashes. If you want to waste your life, knock yourself out. But it's just like, as far as impacting the population at an entry level, where it's like a mass entry point enter or mass entry poi…
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preach up the word if i may be a little bit of evangelical colonel uh devil's action devil's chessboard good legacy of ashes bad because it's it's the case the other point i just wanted to make is um somebody mentioned that um you know the …
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Nazis and Ivy Leaguers. Both would be delivered by Alan Dulles. Alan Dulles might be one of the greatest unindicted traitors in the history of America. One of the most authoritative books on Dulles called The Devil's Chessboard, Alan Dulles…
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who demanded unconditional surrender from the Nazi regime, but pursuing his own foreign policy. A negotiated peace with Germany, with Hitler gone, of course, but with somebody easier to manage at top. You know, someone like Heinrich Himmler…
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The author goes back to the devil's chessboard with this quote. There was nothing undercover about Alan Dulles' wartime exploits in Switzerland. Afterwards, he made much of his espionage adventures with a sympathetic press. Of course, they …