Título: JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia
Autor: Greg Poulgrain
Sinopse: For those interested in the assassination of JFK, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups.
Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our nation’s longest-serving CIA director, often clashed over intelligence issues and national security. However, one such conflict has remained in the shadows until now. JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia takes reader to the vast archipelago 3350 miles wide where this secret showdown occurred.
In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware of the gold, since Dulles had not informed Kennedy.
Dulles planned a complicated and ruthless CIA regime-change strategy to seize control not only of Indonesia itself, but also of its vast resources, including the gold. This strategy included a push to start Malaysian Confrontation. Yet Kennedy's plan to visit Jakarta in early 1964 would have sunk Dulles' master plan, which included the destruction of the Indonesian communist party as a wedge to split Moscow and Beijing. Only an assassin's bullet put an end to Kennedy’s plan of peace. Did Allen Dulles arrange for JFK to be killed to save his plan and his gold? Was his coup for gold successful with JFK out of the picture?
Using archival records as a basis, Greg Poulgrain adds word-of-mouth evidence from those people who were directly involved—such as Dean Rusk and others who worked with President Kennedy and Allen Dulles at the time; or the person who was with Michael Rockefeller when he mysteriously disappeared in West New Guinea during this whole affair.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia”, de Greg Poulgrain, publicado pela editora Skyhorse, em 2020 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Skyhorse
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2020-11-17
Edição: Critical edition
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1510744797
ISBN13: 9781510744790
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Skyhorse oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada pela diversidade temática e pelo equilíbrio entre narrativas densas e conteúdos práticos. O catálogo apresenta desde análises históricas detalhadas, como estudos sobre eventos marcantes e biografias, até guias técnicos e manuais ilustrados, que vão desde sobrevivência militar até jardinagem e culinária. Essa variedade permite ao leitor transitar entre obras mais narrativas e envolventes, como romances e relatos de trauma, e textos informativos e didáticos, com linguagem clara e foco em instruções precisas.
