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“a country that was rapidly turning into the front line in the Cold War. Vienna had been divided into allied occupation zones. It was suffering with danger and intrigue later displayed in a 1949 film called The Third Man. Joan was once threa…”
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Richardson stayed on at the Army Counterintelligence and switched over to the CIA afterwards. He had been assigned to Italy, Vienna, Trieste, which is the northeast, just north of Venice area of Italy, and moved to Saigon from Manila, which…
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action capability, talking about the radios in the weapon caches. In short, the CIA faced a huge gap between the course it urged Eastern Europeans to take and any ability to assist them doing it. About to embark on an inspection trip to Eur…
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They produced no new ideas. Mac Carger brought in a former senior Hungarian politician and sent him to Vienna to contact people at home. But that resulted in little information. Wisner proceeded to Germany. Tracy Barnes found the DO staff s…
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and 2,500 armored vehicles, reconquering Budapest by November 8th. Eisenhower administration, meanwhile, largely diverted by the unfolding Anglo-French intervention at Suez, had less and less time to even deal with the Hungary situation. It…
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His deputy chief of station at Vienna, Pierre de Salva, saw little to do. Events moved too fast for the CIA. Station officers like William B. Hood, an espionage specialist, and John Mapother, a political action man, looked on in horror. The…
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Accounts by former CIA officers suggest the agency people in Hungary were caught up in the events of the rebellion and barely escaped across the Austrian border. Vice President Richard Nixon and former OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, like Wisn…
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a Far East specialist by trade, had been drafted after a tour as station chief in Tokyo. Jack Esterling had now risen to deputy chief of division at the headquarters. Still on board after all these years was Jerry Droller, D-R-O-L-L-E-R, ch…
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He had worked in Vienna and Therese and moved to Saigon from Manila, Philippines. You know, another terrorist training place. Colby introduced Richardson to Nguyen Dinh Ngu, now head of Diem's intelligence services. Richardson had been a cl…
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But the same time the agency intercepted a letter from an unknown organization, probably contrived, mailed from Vienna, still a spy haven. The letter alleged that the CIA employed someone in the coordinating secretariat of the International…
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On July 3rd, Carter signed the finding. The American program began with supplies of food and clothing, helping the resistance without greatly committing the U.S. Brzezinski wanted more, but with Carter, due to see Russian leaders in Vienna,…
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In Russian occupied areas, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany. It screened refugees, prepared cover stories to support its agents, and maintained relationships with other services. Al Ulmer, the SSU station chief for Vie…
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Codenamed Marshal from his Vienna days, Jim Critchfield became the chief of the Galen organization on the American side. His deputy, Pierre De Silva, had helped manage security for the atomic bomb project during World War II. Another, Henry…
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They formed the core of the U.S. delegation at the meeting held in Vienna, Helsinki, and Moscow in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. An American attending the Sixth World Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957 was specifically directed by …
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James Critchfield, the news chief of CIA Munich Station, was given the task of evaluating Galen's operation and recommending for or against it. The 31-year-old Critchfield was a Dulles man. He had identified as a talented prospect by Eleano…
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But two world wars and global economic collapse had stripped them of their holdings and reduced him to playing the role of a Nazi courier. The prince had first met Allen Dulles in Vienna in 1916, when they were both young men trying to make…
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Anti-Semitism made him a colleague with the Reich. He was also well-connected in the enemy camp. Tyler was among the first people whom Dulles sought out when he got to Switzerland. Now, Dulles and the prince and their mutual friend, Royal T…
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He basically had served as a bag man for political payoffs and as a link to the criminal underworld the agency worked with in the mafia because of drugs. And this guy is working for the U.S. Federal Drug Enforcement Agency at the time. Dolm…
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a country that was rapidly turning into the front line in the Cold War. Vienna had been divided into allied occupation zones. It was suffering with danger and intrigue later displayed in a 1949 film called The Third Man. Joan was once threa…
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from Risen's book, State of War. The Russian assignment from the CIA as part of Operation Merlin was to pose as an unemployed and greedy scientist who was willing to sell his soul and secrets for an atomic bomb to the highest bidder. By hoo…
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Another one, $10 million that was for General Electric. Goldman Sachs got in and purchased 400 shares of Credit Stock Bank of Vienna and a $70 million loan that Bankers Trust worked with Poland. All of these and more than a dozen other tran…
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in charge of that company's construction and underground facilities. They also had war plane plants near Vienna. Now that the war was clearly lost, Dulles said, the Smith brothers were looking for a safe way out. The ethical dilemma was obv…