Allen Dulles
Allen Dulles fue director de la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
durante muchos años y, se dice, que estuvo a cargo de operaciones encubiertas (el
golpe de estado en Irán), programas secretos
(the Project MKUltra) y vigilancia de
ciudadanos norteamericanos. David Talbot
autor de The Devil´s Chessboard, lo
acusa de la muerte de Patrice Lumumba,
presidente democrático del Congo, en
esta entrevista. En vocabulario: oversaw y stint
Allen Welsh Dulles (/ˈdʌləs/; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became
the first civilian Director of Central
Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed
U-2 aircraft program, the Project
MKUltra mind control program and the Bay
of Pigs Invasion. He was dismissed by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco.
Dulles was one of the members of the Warren
Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints
of government service, Dulles was a
corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan
& Cromwell.
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| Allen Dulles |
The Rise of America’s Secret Government: The Deadly
Legacy of Ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles
—It´s been over
half a century since Allen Dulles resigned as director of the CIA but his
legacy lives on. Between 1953 and 61 under his watch the CIA overthrew the governments
of Iran and Guatemala, invaded Cuba, was tied to the killing of Patrice
Lumumba, Congo´s first democratically elected leader. A new biography of Allen
Dulles looks at how his time at the CIA helped shaped the current national
security state. Biographer David Talbot
writes”the Allen Dullen story continues to hunt the country. Many of the
practices that still provoke bouts of American soul- searching originated
during Dulles´s formative rule at the CIA. ” Talbot goes on to write “Mind
control experimentation, torture, political assassination, extraordinary
rendition, mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign allies – these were all
widely used tools of the Dulles reign.”
Well, David
Talbot joins us now to talk about his new book “The Devil´s Chessboard. Allen
Dulles, the CIA and the rise of America´s secret government”… Talbot also
authors the bestseller “Brothers, the hidden history of the Kennedy´s years”… Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, how do they
relate to Allen Dulles, the longest reigning CIA director?
—Well, as I
write in the book and you just pointed out all the practices that we are
wrestling with as a country now with intelligence, security measures including,
I might add, the legacy of killing fields in Central America, that you guessed,
was just discussed in Guatemala and so on. That all had its roots not after
9/11, but during the Allen´s era in the Cold War. He was a man who felt that he
was above the law. He felt that democracy was something that should not be left
in the hands of the American people or his representatives. He was part of what
a famous sociologist from the ´50s called the power elite and he felt that he
and his brother and those types of people should…
—Foster Dulles,
secretary of State.
—Exactly. They
were the dynamic duo, of course. His brother Foster, as you said, was Secretary
of State, under Eisenhower he was head of the CIA. It was a one-two punch.
—Let´s go to
Allen Dulles in his own words speaking in 1965 defending the actions of the CIA.
—The idea that
it´s necessary in the fairies that´s always engaged in overthrowing the
governments. That´s false. That´s for the birds. Now there are times when the
United States government feels that the developments in another government,
such as in the Vietnam situation, is of a nature to imperil the safety, the
security and the peace of the world and ask the Central Intelligence Agency to
be its agent in that particular situation and no time has the CIA engaged in
any political activity or any intelligence activity. It was not approved at the
highest levels (Allen Dulles, former CIA director.)
—That´s Allen
Dulles in 1965… so talk about the history that is so intimately connected to us
today often countries, their leaders have been overthrown, know its history in
a way Americans don’t know…
—Allen Dulles was
a consummate liar and was very adept at manipulating the media. That in
particular interview was one of the ones that actually he got posed some of the
tougher questions by John Chancellor of NBC News and he actually went on to say
“I try to let the Congress know what I´m doing”. When Chancellor asked him “Is
there a political oversight of the CIA?”. “But whenever I go to Congress”, he
says, and he starts to tell the secrets of the CIA. Members of Congress would
say no, we don´t want to talk. We don´t want to talk in our sleeps. So that was
of course his cover… Overthowing governments as well. I think one of the most tragic
stories I tell in the book is the story of Patrice Lumumba, who was this young
charismatic leader- The hope of African nationalism in the Congo and he was
overthrown by a CI back military coup in the Congo and later captured and
brutally assassinated. (4, 30 minutes transcribed from this interview.)
Vocabulario
oversaw: supervised, was in charge of.
"the Home
Secretary oversees the police
service"
stint: stretch, period, time, term
"his varied
career included a stint as a
magician"
Para
saber
Patrice Lumumba played
a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium
into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and Pan-Africanist,
he led the Congolese National Movement
(MNC) party from 1958 until his assassination.
Shortly after Congolese independence in 1960, a mutiny
broke out in the army, marking the beginning of the Congo Crisis. Lumumba
appealed to the United States and the United Nations for help to suppress
the Belgian-supported Katangan secessionists led by Moise Tshombe. Both refused, so Lumumba turned to the Soviet Union for support.
Lumumba was subsequently imprisoned by state authorities under Mobutu and executed by a firing squad
under the command of Katangan
authorities.
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| Lumumba, Brussels, 1960 |
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