Herta Field person
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Herta Field covered_up
Poland book_quoted
“and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by Polish secret police three months later …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 7:02
Herta Field spied_on
Poland documented
“Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three months into the long ordeal, as a capti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 34:20
Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Herta Field documented
“into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 36:47
Herta Field released
Soviet Union documented
“She was released into the custody of Soviet secret police officials who apologized and offered her money and then took her to East Berlin, where she was put in a taxi over to the west side. She walked to freedom through the same Brandenburg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 40:05
Allen Dulles betrayed
Herta 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
Mentions (12)
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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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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…
▶ 7:02
and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by Polish secret police three months later …
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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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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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Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three months into the long ordeal, as a capti…
▶ 34:49
an academic. He seemed eager to help Herman out of his predicament. If only he would fully cooperate, there was no use in playing games any longer. Polish security knew that he and his brother were part of a conspiracy. Herman, a political …
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about why he or his brother had fallen into this nightmare. But you're not talking sense, he told the inquisitor. What conspiracy? Tell me what I have done to you. Give me one example. The tweed man began pacing back and forth and suddenly …
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That by abruptly invoking Allen Dulles' name, Field would finally crumble. But the question only served to deepen the confusion. Field had been too young to even remember meeting Dulles as a child. He had only a vague memory of his name. He…
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She was released into the custody of Soviet secret police officials who apologized and offered her money and then took her to East Berlin, where she was put in a taxi over to the west side. She walked to freedom through the same Brandenburg…
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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 …