{"id":88389,"date":"2017-11-04T08:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=88389"},"modified":"2017-11-04T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T13:08:13","slug":"jfk-assassination-former-c-i-a-director-allen-dulles-1-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=88389","title":{"rendered":"JFK Assassination: Former C.I.A. Director Allen Dulles #1 Suspect (Video 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0Tie to\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">JFK<\/span>\u00a0Assassination? Book on Ex-Director Allen Dulles Questions Agency\u2019s Role<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2015\/10\/19\/a_cia_tie_to_jfk_assassination\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"story_summary\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>DemocracyNow.org<\/p>\n<p>David Talbot, author of \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>, and the Rise of America\u2019s Secret Government,\u201d re-examines what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and looks at John F. Kennedy\u2019s relationship with his former\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0director. \u201cThe weekend of Kennedy\u2019s assassination, Allen Dulles is not at home watching television like the rest of America,\u201d Talbot said. \u201cHe\u2019s at a remote\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0facility, two years after being pushed out of the agency by Kennedy, called The Farm, in northern Virginia, that he used when he was director of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0as a kind of an alternate command post.\u201d Talbot also asks why the agency has refused to publicly release travel documents of\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0officials who have been identified for having a possible role in Kennedy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"hidden-xs\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"transcript\" class=\"mobile_anchor_target\">\n<h3 class=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grey_description fine_print\">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0This is\u00a0<em>Democracy Now!<\/em>, democracynow.org,\u00a0<em>The War and Peace Report<\/em>, as we continue Part 2 of our conversation with David Talbot on his new book,\u00a0<em>The Devil\u2019s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>, and the Rise of America\u2019s Secret Government<\/em>. I asked him why he was\u2014why Allen Dulles was fired by\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">JFK<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">DAVID<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">TALBOT<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, he was fired after the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy realized he shouldn\u2019t have kept Dulles on from the Eisenhower years. They were philosophically too different. And the Bay of Pigs was the final straw for him. So he was pushed out after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>And\u2014but Dulles, as I say, continued to sort of set up an anti-Kennedy government in exile in his home in Georgetown. Many of the people he was meeting with, several of the people, including Howard Hunt and others, later became figures of suspicion during the House Select Committee on Assassination hearings in Washington in the 1970s. You know, most Americans don\u2019t know that that was the last official statement, the last official report, on the Kennedy assassination, not the Warren Report back in 1964. But the Congress reopened the investigation into John Kennedy\u2019s assassination, and they did determine he was killed as the result of a conspiracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>So a number of the people who came up during this investigation by Congress were figures of interest who were meeting with Allen Dulles. They had no, you know, obvious reason to be meeting with a \u201cretired\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0official. The weekend of Kennedy\u2019s assassination, Allen Dulles is not at home watching television like the rest of America. He\u2019s at a remote\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0facility, two years after being pushed out of the agency by Kennedy, called The Farm, in northern Virginia, that he used when he was director of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0as a kind of an alternate command post. Well, he\u2019s there while Kennedy is killed, after Kennedy is killed, when Jack Ruby then kills Lee Harvey Oswald. That whole fateful weekend, he\u2019s hunkered down in a\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0command post. So, there are many odd circumstances like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I also found out from interviewing the children of another former\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0official that one of the key figures of interest in the Kennedy assassination, a guy named William Harvey, who was head of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>-Mafia plot against Castro and hated the Kennedys, thought that they were weak and so on, he was seen leaving his Rome station and flying to Dallas, by his own deputy, on an airplane early in November 1963. This is a remarkable sighting, because to place someone like William Harvey, the head of the CIA\u2019s assassination unit, put there by Allen Dulles, in Dallas in November of &#8217;63 before the assassination is a very important fact. The\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>, by the way, refuses, even at this late date, to release the travel vouchers for people like William Harvey. Under the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">JFK<\/span>\u00a0Records Act, that was passed back in the 1990s, they are compelled by federal law to release all documents related to the Kennedy assassination, but they&#8217;re still withholding over 1,100 of these documents, including\u2014and I used the Freedom of Information Act to try and get the travel vouchers for William Harvey. They\u2019re still holding onto them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0How many calls are you getting in the mainstream media to do interviews?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">DAVID<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">TALBOT<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, thank God, I was saying earlier, for alternative media, like this, Amy, because there is resistance to this book. First of all, I call out the mainstream media. I say that\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CBS<\/span>,\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>, they were all under his thumb. They did his bidding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Whose thumb?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">DAVID<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">TALBOT<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Allen Dulles\u2019s thumb. So, when the Warren Report came out, I was saying that one of the editors, top editors, at\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0wrote to him and said, \u201cThank you so much, Mr. Dulles, for helping shape our coverage of the Warren Report.\u201d Well, of course, Allen Dulles was on the Warren Commission. In fact, some people thought it should have been called the Dulles Commission, because he dominated it so much. So, you know, it\u2019s way too cozy, the relationship between Washington power and the media. And\u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0What was the relationship between Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, and Allen Dulles, the head of the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">DAVID<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">TALBOT<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, they were social friends, not just him, but other members of the Sulzberger family. I found, you know, cozy correspondence between them, congratulating him when he was inaugurated, Dulles, as\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0director. They called him \u201cAlly,\u201d one of the Sulzberger families, in one letter. They would get together, you know, every year. Dulles would hold these media sort of drink fests for New Year\u2019s. And these were, you know, top reporters, top editors, would get together with the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>\u00a0guys and rub elbows and get a little drunk. And, you know, when Allen Dulles didn\u2019t want a reporter, because he felt he was being overly aggressive, covering, say, Guatemala\u2014Sydney Gruson, the reporter\u2014in the run-up to the coup there in 1954, he had\u2014he made a call to\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and had him removed. That was because of his relationship with Sulzberger, the publisher. So, that was the kind of pull that Allen Dulles had.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0How did that work?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"caps\">DAVID<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">TALBOT<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, they just took him out. They removed Gruson. They transferred him, I think to Mexico, at that point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0David Talbot on his new book,\u00a0<i>The Devil\u2019s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>, and the Rise of America\u2019s Secret Government<\/i>. To see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/10\/13\/the_rise_of_americas_secret_government\">Parts 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/the_rise_of_america_s_secret\">3<\/a>, you can go to democracynow.org.<\/p>\n<p>We have a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/about\/jobs\/development\">job opening<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<em>Democracy Now!<\/em>\u00a0We\u2019re hiring a director of development to lead our fundraising efforts. You can find out more at democracynow.org. 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