Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 1- "The Man Who Knew Too Much" By: Dick Russell

"The officials who earned their wings with the nation's first overseas intelligence operation, the wartime Office of Strategic Services, rose to the top of the CIA hierarchy during the 1950s. They generally came from wealthy families, Ivy league schools, and lawyer backgrounds- pillars of the eastern establishment whose appetite for cloak-and-dagger operations had been whetted for a worthy cause.

Flushed with American's wartime success and largely immune from presidential or congressional scrutiny, they began to write their own rules. During the Eisenhower years, foreign policy was in the hands of the brothers Dulles-Allen at the CIA, John Foster at the State Department- and few questioned their hegemony.

The colossus fueled by World War II required ever-expanding horizons. In the guise of guarding the free world, the CIA propped up puppet governments whose strings were pulled by American multi-national corporations. And it toppled those suspected of leaning toward 'the other side' in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Congo, and elsewhere." -From, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" By: Dick Russell