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The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7
▶ 2:35 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…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7
▶ 23:31 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. …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7
▶ 23:56 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
▶ 33:51 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…