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Devil's Chessboard: JFK and the struggle for power France, part 2

Devil's Chessboard: JFK and the struggle for power France, part 2

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Jefferson Morley
Oct 26, 2015
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In Part 2 of this 3-part series in WhoWhatWhy , President Kennedy learns of Dulles’s involvement in plotting to overthrow de Gaulle, and assures the French of his support for de Gaulle, while issuing a warning:

"The CIA is such a vast and poorly controlled machine that the most unlikely maneuvers might be true," Kennedy said.  But not even the CIA, with …

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