Skipped History

How Two Brothers Tried to Start a Civil War in Indonesia


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The first episode of Season 2 investigates how brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, director of the CIA and secretary of state in the 1950s, led one of the largest and most foolish covert operations in US history.

Today's story comes from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins; and "The Brothers" by Stephen Kinzer.

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Skipped HistoryBy Ben Tumin