Allen Dulles: The Life of the CIAs Most Powerful and Notorious Director Audiobook Libro.fm

The 28year period from 19331961 bracketed on one end by Hitlers rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents In fact only three men held office in this period and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies Conversely the CIA had five different directors in its first 15 years from 19461961 and then nine different directors in the next 20 with four of those directors serving less than a year But of all the CIAs directors none wielded the immense influence or power of Allen Dulles who together with his brother Secretary of State John Foster Dulles became arguably the two most powerful people in the government after the president