Thanks for the recommendation. We really need to have a “What are your reading now? thread. I discovered so many wonderful books combing through those threads.
There used to be one that appeared every-so-often. Can't remember the Freeper who posted it though.
Here's another book I highly recommend, if you're interested. I'm reading it as well at the time:
"Legacy of Tears: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner, a former agent. He doesn't mince any words when it comes to ripping the agency apart from the time of its inception. What they've been allowed to get away with unchecked all these years is disgusting, and I'm only on page 136, Chapter 14. It's a well-sourced book...many chapters notes.
One thing I hadn't known was that Allen Dulles was head of the CIA when Kennedy was in office. I probably didn't pay attention at the time. I was only a teenager. Dulles was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion that went awry. It wasn't the first time things he planned went south, but he remained in power until Kennedy fired him on November 28, 1961. He lied repeatedly to every President he served, was a known womanizer and had a dislike for the Kennedys. I never tied his name to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, but I can see an arrogant bastard like him being involved. LBJ appointed him to the Warren Commission. What better way to cover up the involvement of the CIA in JFK's murder? He died on January 29, 1969, of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D.C.