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

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 all its right-wing allies, was any match for the millions of French who stood up for de Gaulle.

Read Part 1 here.

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