John foster & Allen Dulles, one head of State Dept the other OSS & CIA, the early Bush dynasty was tapped often financing Hitler's Germany, also in shaping the Middle East
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The Dulles brothers’ Manichaean worldview proved to be a poor tool for dealing with the complexities of the postcolonial era. Leaders like Lumumba and Mossadegh might well have been open to cooperation with the United States, seeing it as a natural ally for enemies of colonialism. However, for the Dulles brothers, and for much of the American government, threats to corporate interests were categorized as support for communism. “For us,” John Foster Dulles once explained,
“there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who are Christians
and support free enterprise, and there are the others.”
Eventually, the United States government tired of Allen Dulles’s schemes.
President Johnson privately complained that the C.I.A. had been running “a
goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean,” an entirely accurate assessment — except
the beneficiaries were American corporations rather than organized crime.
Nowadays, the Dulles brothers have faded from America’s collective memory. The bust of John Foster, once on view at the airport west of Washington that bears his name, has been relocated to a private conference room.
Outside the world of intelligence aficionados, Allen Dulles is little known. Yet
both these men shaped our modern world and America’s sense of its
“exceptionalism.” They should be remembered, Kinzer argues, precisely because of
their failures: “They are us. We are them.” |
