The brothers’ answer was to use the CIA to conduct undercover operations against the growing wave of nationalism. He took the lead at the National Security Council ensuring it too saw in every indigenous movement the hand of the Soviet Union and international communist conspiracy. The State Department became a reflection of John Foster’s views. John Foster, doing the bidding of Joe McCarthy, decimated the State Department, eliminating anyone with differing views including the old China hands with Asian expertise, leaving no one who could challenge his clueless Viet Nam policy. When Eisenhower became president he made John Foster his Secretary of State and Allen his CIA chief. John Foster’s Christianity was deeply aligned with making money off of his client’s investments and fighting communism, all of these went together in John Foster’s mind. Allen challenged his brother asking him how he could support Hitler and call himself a Christian. John Foster steadfastly supported Hitler apologizing for him right up to America’s entry into the war. Allen could see Hitler was evil and trouble in the early thirties. Allen had some nuance, John Foster was Manichean.īoth worked for the global law firm Sullivan and Cromwell which had extensive investment in Germany in the thirties. Allan was a charmer, warm and engaging, and a womanizer. John Foster was reserved, starchily correct and a loyal husband. Despite their similar views they had completely opposite personalities. Both saw a world in need of the paternalistic leadership of the United States to defend it against bolshevism. Both saw corporate interests, American interests and Christian morality as deeply intertwined. Both had a strict Presbyterian upbringing. John Foster and Allen Dulles looked at the world through the same prism. As bad as the George W and chief henchman Dick Cheney legacy is, Eisenhower’s and the Dulles brothers’ is arguably worse…at least as bad. Join us as we inspire a new generation of pioneers and explorers.Great book! Makes you question the notion that competence in managing American foreign policy has declined in recent years. The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial AgeĪ major renovation is underway as we reimagine all 23 galleries and presentation spaces in our iconic National Mall building in Washington, DC.

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