Noel Field person
also: Field, Fields, Noel, Noel Fields, an American Quaker relief worker, the unsuspecting Field family
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Claims (15)
Noel Field released
Hungary documented
“urban studies professor and pioneering studies at Tufts University and wrote novels. Noel and Herta shocked their family by staying in Hungary, where they quietly lived out the rest of their lives. For Noel, the personal betrayal by Dulles …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 40:35
Erica Glasser Wallach covered_up
Noel Field book_quoted
“Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 3:04
Frank Wisner spied_on
Noel Field book_quoted
“Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 23:56
Noel Field spied_on
Kitty Massing book_quoted
“who turned out to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Noel began secretly passing information and copies of documents to her, but increasingly tormented by his dual loyalties, he decided to quit the State Department. In 1935, Noel moved to Gene…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 29:41
Noel Field member_of
League of Nations book_quoted
“who turned out to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Noel began secretly passing information and copies of documents to her, but increasingly tormented by his dual loyalties, he decided to quit the State Department. In 1935, Noel moved to Gene…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 29:41
Noel Field member_of
Unitarian Service Committee documented
“who was so impressed by teenage Field's sincerity, he came to see him as just another little mice that could be used. Field volunteered to work for Dulles using his cover as a Unitarian Service Committee relief worker to transmit informatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 31:32
Allen Dulles recruited
Noel Field documented
“who was so impressed by teenage Field's sincerity, he came to see him as just another little mice that could be used. Field volunteered to work for Dulles using his cover as a Unitarian Service Committee relief worker to transmit informatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 31:32
Noel Field proposed
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. documented
“Field met the young OSS officer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the future historian and Kennedy White House aide. Field proposed that the OSS subsidize the recruitment of left-wing German refugees in France who would be dropped inside liberated a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 32:25
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. exposed
Noel Field documented
“But an ardent anti-communist immediately sniffed out Field's proposal as a scheme to give the Soviet Union a head start. Schlesinger took a strong disliking to Field. Years later, he would describe him as a Quaker communist filled with idea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 32:51
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. covered_up
Noel Field documented
“His pious dedication to the Soviet cause did little damage to the interests of the U.S. Nonetheless, after his Paris meeting, Schlesinger strongly advised the USS against buying into Fields' scheme for post-war Germany. Dulles ended up fund…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 33:21
Allen Dulles funded
Noel Field documented
“His pious dedication to the Soviet cause did little damage to the interests of the U.S. Nonetheless, after his Paris meeting, Schlesinger strongly advised the USS against buying into Fields' scheme for post-war Germany. Dulles ended up fund…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 33:21
Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Noel Field documented
“He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't know it. Operation Splinter Factor succ…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 36:20
Noel Field recruited
Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted
“Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 3:04
Allen Dulles betrayed
Noel Field host_asserted
“Dulles was able to betray Field with such ease, spreading the lie that he was a secret agent behind the Iron Curtain for the Americans. But when Dulles decided to feed Noel Field to Stalin and then one at a time, his three family members, t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 33:51
Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of
Noel Field host_asserted
“In Czechoslovakia, where nearly 170,000 Communist Party members were seized as suspects in the make-believe field plot, the political crisis grew so severe that the economy nearly collapsed. Anyone whose life had been remotely touched by No…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 37:13
Mentions (25)
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Erica Wallach's adoptive father, an American Quaker relief worker named Noel Field, had disappeared after being lured to Prague with the promise of a university teaching position. His wife, Herta, and the younger brother, Herman, went looki…
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Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving…
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They were not forced upon me by outside acts or conditions, but lived within me, born of a weakness of my own heart. While she endured this treatment at Volkuta, the Fields were suffering their own nightmare behind the Iron Curtain. After N…
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apparently trivial happenings affect a human being? During the harsh interrogations to which all four members of the Field family were subjected, including Erica Wallach, one name kept coming up. How do you know Alan Dulles? The inquisitors…
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The idea was sparked in May of 1949 when British intelligence informed Wisner that one of Dulles' former wartime assets, a man named Noel Field, was planning to fly to Prague, where an attractive academic post was being dangled before him. …
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Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission…
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the brave communist nationalist and anti-fascist that he had helped survive as a refugee aid worker. These men and women were all part of a top-secret Dulles Field spy network, the story went. None of it was true, but Wisner and Dulles knew…
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Most men with this sort of connection to a family would have found it impossible to use them as pawns, not Alan Dulles. But Dulles had set up his plan by turning the unsuspecting Field family into members of a far-reaching U.S. spy ring. Du…
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into launching witch hunts that would fracture the communist government throughout Eastern Europe. As with all bold counterintelligence gambits he undertook during his career, Dulles threw himself into the field affair with excitement, even…
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Dulles had first met Fields in Switzerland during World War I when he tried to recruit Noel's father, Herbert Haviland Field, which was a Harvard-educated, internationally renowned zoologist who ran a scientific institute in Zurich dedicate…
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But he did feed him some information from time to time and he invited the young diplomat to his home for dinners. It was here in the field's hilltop home overlooking Lake Zurich that Dulles became acquainted with Noel and his three siblings…
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Noel became deeply committed to pacifism during the war when he saw train loads of horribly maimed soldiers coming into neutral Switzerland. When his father died suddenly of a heart attack after the war, Noel vowed to dedicate his life to h…
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And writing his dissertation on the League of Nations and disarmament, he graduated with honors in 1924. Shortly after, he married his Swiss-German sweetheart, Herta, whom he had known since they were both nine years old. Noel then applied …
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do his bit towards international understanding. In 1926, after passing the exams, Noel and Herta moved to Washington, D.C., where he began to work for the State Department. From the very beginning, Noel was an odd man in the world of the St…
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but the trial of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti to the bonus march of impoverished war veterans on Washington in 1932 that turned violent when General Douglas MacArthur unleashed his troops on the protesters. While other young Foreign Servic…
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would frequent the Capitol's racially segregated theaters, where they sat with their black friends. The Fields also invited racially mixed people into their house. Although he did not join the Communist Party, Noel was intrigued by the Sovi…
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Noel and Herta would have been just another free-spirited couple with utopian dreams. But in Washington in the late 20s and 30s, and the growing misery of the Great Depression pushed the desperate and idealistic to extreme directions, Field…
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who turned out to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Noel began secretly passing information and copies of documents to her, but increasingly tormented by his dual loyalties, he decided to quit the State Department. In 1935, Noel moved to Gene…
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Field thought by returning to Switzerland, he could maintain an honorable neutrality for the rest of his career, which took Noel from the League of Nations post to humanitarian work on behalf of Nazi refugees from World War II. He convinced…
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Earl Browder, leader of the U.S. Communist Party, would anoint him a stupid child in the woods. That's the same Earl Browder in charge of the Communist Party that is a relative of Bill Browder, the guy who went and tried to fleece the Sovie…
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who ends up dead in his house, burning to death as the financier for Browder. Same family. So he starts off as the U.S. Communist Party chief and then pretends like he's not communist as he goes into the falling Soviet Union and tries to st…
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who was so impressed by teenage Field's sincerity, he came to see him as just another little mice that could be used. Field volunteered to work for Dulles using his cover as a Unitarian Service Committee relief worker to transmit informatio…
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Noel was particularly useful as a conduit to the German communist underground. The field's foster daughter, Erica, also proved helpful for Dulles, bicycling guns and medicine to the border of France. It was clear that Noel's anti-fascist wo…
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Field met the young OSS officer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the future historian and Kennedy White House aide. Field proposed that the OSS subsidize the recruitment of left-wing German refugees in France who would be dropped inside liberated a…
▶ 32:51
But an ardent anti-communist immediately sniffed out Field's proposal as a scheme to give the Soviet Union a head start. Schlesinger took a strong disliking to Field. Years later, he would describe him as a Quaker communist filled with idea…