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The Warren Commission Decided 6: Dulles
🕑 Added 2025-03-19 05:00:02 +0000 UTCWe’re back with another installment of The Warren Commission Decided to round out our excavation into the backgrounds and baggage of the seven commissioners LBJ appointed to seal up the narrative of the JFK assassination in the wake of the murder of Lee Oswald. And we’ve saved the worst for last: God’s own monster, Allen Welsh Dulles.
Oceans of ink have been spilled, and miles of vocal cords chafed recounting the genocidal legacy of Allen Dulles. You know we’re averse to trodding familiar ground, so this episode delves into some areas we hope will be fresher. It wouldn’t be 4RA without a healthy dose of Oedipal psychology, so we dig into the Foster-Lansing-Dulles klan to consider what makes these freaks tick. Then, we touch on Allen’s career of evil from his jumpstart in espionage (and Aryo-philia) during WWI, to his participation in the Versailles conference, to his law practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, to his peak as longtime CIA director under presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Again, we gloss over a lot of the greatest hits to give you the deeper cuts, all while focusing on Dulles’s deep-seated racism and how it informed his tolerance - or even admiration - for Nazism. We also highlight his absolute mastery of the art of deception.
Finally, we end up where we always do: with his relationship with JFK, their breakup after the Bay of Pigs debacle, and his selection as commissioner. Perhaps when JFK fired the old silver fox, he should have been more “careful with that axe.” It’s another banger: dig in!
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EJK
Just another Wish List item: would love a 4RA deep dive into the recent release of the JFK/RFK files. Strange how these silly public hearings have been led by genociders such as Luna and Nancy Mace. (Who should be maced, at the very least.)
EJK
Thank you for the reply! Just finished your 3-hours on JJ McCloy. What a masterful deep dive, complex and fair. And next comes the Prince of Darkness. Just a follow-up on episode order. Is "Choose Your Hitler 3" supposed to be ep. 3 of the WCD series? I know you've gone beyond the Commissioners, but any chance of an episode dealing with Boggs, Warren, and Russell? Keep up your indispensable work!
