Alexander Kirk person
also: Kirk, Kurtz
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Alexander Kirk spied_on
Josip Broz Tito host_asserted
“the hardline policy against the Soviet Union. Kirk convinced himself and Washington that Tito's forces were acting as a cat's paw of the Soviet Union and that the Yugoslav claim to the port was an example of aggression. Winston Churchill an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 45:32
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and criticized his adventurism in backing left-wing nationalist guerrillas in the Taris area and in Greece. But that was not how things appeared in Washington. The chief U.S. political advisor on the scene, Alexander Kirk, K-I-R-K, had been…
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the hardline policy against the Soviet Union. Kirk convinced himself and Washington that Tito's forces were acting as a cat's paw of the Soviet Union and that the Yugoslav claim to the port was an example of aggression. Winston Churchill an…
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Kurtz's desires report only confirmed their longstanding analysis of Soviet policy. Grew regarded the port crisis as nothing less than the first military confrontation in the U.S.'s war against the Soviets. World War II had thus far resulte…