Dulles's Post-Firing Shadow Presence and Ongoing CIA Control

• 59:04Allen Dulles was fired by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
• 59:46Dulles also attempted to overthrow the French government in Paris the same week as Bay of Pigs.
• 1:00:13After his forced retirement, Dulles kept CIA deputies visiting his Georgetown home and continued running the agency.
• 1:00:57On the weekend Kennedy was killed, the supposedly retired Dulles was monitoring events from The Farm, a secret CIA headquarters in Virginia.
• 1:01:25Dulles used his position on the Warren Commission to deflect attention from the CIA and focus entirely on Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1:02:04David Talbot's publisher is releasing books about CIA manipulation of the press and Hollywood.
• 1:02:39Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA-Contra drug trafficking connection, had his career destroyed and died in what was ruled a suicide.
• 1:03:35Tim asks Talbot if he ever gets nervous writing about suspicious deaths like Michael Hastings and considers safer subjects.
• 1:04:22Talbot says journalists must operate fearlessly and has received vague threats but nothing direct.
• 1:04:38Michael Hastings angered powerful figures in the US military but whether his death was related to that remains unclear.

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