David Talbot

David Talbot        (author)
Born	1951-09-22 Los Angeles, California
Parents	Lyle Talbot
Spouse	Camille Peri
Founder of	Salon.com
Member of	Assassination Archives and Research Center, WhoWhatWhy
Interests	• Allan Dulles • Deep State

David Talbot in conversation with Peter Dale Scott

David Talbot is a researcher and author.

Career

David Talbot founded Salon.com.

Publications

The Devil's Chessboard

Talbot's book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government is a biography examining the career of Allen Dulles. According to Talbot, Dulles orchestrated the JFK assassination at the behest of corporate leaders who perceived him to be threat to "national security", lobbied Lyndon B. Johnson to have himself appointed to the Warren Commission, then arranged Lee Harvey Oswald as the 'lone nut" patsy. The book charges that the RFK assassination was also arranged by the same cabal as they feared that he would expose his brother's killers.

Reviews

Jim DiEugenio stated that "Talbot’s work is not without flaws — which I will detail later. But it is so far ahead of its competitors, and it deals with such a wide variety of important subjects, that I strongly recommend reading it. Most books I review in this field I read once, and then walk outside and throw them in the dumpster. Talbot’s book is so large in scale, so rich in detail, so wide-ranging and relevant in its gallop through time, that I read it twice—all the while writing 43 pages of notes in preparation for this review. It was the only way to do the book justice. And anyone who says they can grasp and appreciate the 620 pages of text in one reading is not being candid."

In a review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Glenn C. Altschuler stated that "Talbot’s indictment is long, varied and sensational." The book paints a damning picture of Allen Dulles, who appears quite clearly to be a psychopath through acts such as volunteering his own children for CIA-sponsored torture such as the MK-Ultra.

In a review for Talbot's Salon.com, Liam O'Donoghue writes that "Talbot details how it was not only enemies who had reason to fear Dulles, but his own friends and family, as well. The book veers into a dark, terrifying investigation of the MKUltra Project, a hideous “mind control program” developed by the CIA during Dulles’ reign as director, that dosed unsuspecting people with LSD, pushed the limits of sleep deprivation and engaged in other deeply unethical experiments. The program has been exposed, bit by bit, over decades, thanks to lawsuits and previous investigative reporting, but Talbot sheds light on how Dulles subjected his own son and attempted to “enroll” his wife in these hideous “therapies.”"

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Brussels Forum/2010	26 March 2010	28 March 2010	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2014	21 March 2014	24 March 2014	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition

 

Event Witnessed

Event	Description
Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s	A call for a Truth And Reconciliation Committee

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