French leader Charles de Gaulle thought he was targeted by the CIA in 1961
Jefferson Morley
September 30, 2015
From David Talbot, author of the forthcoming non-fiction thriller “The Devil’s Chessboard.”
“In April 1961, as President Kennedy wrestled with the CIA disaster at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, another CIA-related crisis gripped JFK’s young presidency. President Charles de Gaulle of France was threatened with a military coup by rebellious French officers based in Algeria, who were enraged by de Gaulle’s decision to settle that bloody colonial war. As rebellious tank units and paratroopers prepared to descend on Paris to overthrow French democracy, de Gaulle took to the TV airwaves,
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