John Foster Dulles-usually referred to in the book as “Foster”-and Allen Dulles were secretary of state and director of the CIA, respectively, during a formative period: the hardening and intensification of the Cold War during the Eisenhower administration. global dominance: John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen. The book provides a fascinating look at two individuals who arguably did more than any others to shape U.S. Beyond overt profiteering, covert operations have at times become preferred modes of intervention when wars appeared to be too costly and unpopular to be supported by the general population.Ī new book from former New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, profiles the nexus, frequently covert, that ties together Wall Street law firms, powerful corporations, and U.S. covert operations and secretive intelligence agencies have invented a new kind of racket, one that covertly guides foreign policy to the benefit of powerful interests. From the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st, U.S. war profiteering in World War I as a marginally moral enterprise. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler once remarked, describing U.S.
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