Erika Wallach person
also: Erica, Wallach
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Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack
Erika Wallach 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
Erika Wallach released
Soviet Union documented
“Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 39:36
Erika Wallach worked_for
Allen Dulles documented
“but she didn't believe her ordeal bestowed any special distinction on her. From a European point of view, she said, this is rather common story. Years later, Wallach came to realize that Dulles had played some significant role in her suffer…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 42:35
Erika Wallach worked_for
Frank Wisner documented
“Wallach was one of the few OSS women on Dulles' payroll at the time, and she had undoubtedly caught his eye. She had also worked for Frank Wisner at the winery, but neither man ever expressed any regret to what they did to her. A few months…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 43:04
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▶ 31:58
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…
▶ 39:36
Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field…
▶ 40:05
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…
▶ 41:04
He dismissed the episode as a Stalinist aberration. Wallach was eager to reunite with her husband and her two children, although as much time has gone by, she was unsure how she would even join her family. It would take two years before the…
▶ 41:34
to come to the United States. She said that she was continuously interrogated, not interviewed, interrogated. My visa was refused three times, even though I had an American husband and American children. The irony was not lost on her. The o…
▶ 42:06
After she was finally allowed in the United States, Wallach settled into a comfortable life with her family. Her husband had begun a successful career in Washington, and they lived in a lush Virginia horse country, not far from the new inte…
▶ 42:35
but she didn't believe her ordeal bestowed any special distinction on her. From a European point of view, she said, this is rather common story. Years later, Wallach came to realize that Dulles had played some significant role in her suffer…
▶ 43:04
Wallach was one of the few OSS women on Dulles' payroll at the time, and she had undoubtedly caught his eye. She had also worked for Frank Wisner at the winery, but neither man ever expressed any regret to what they did to her. A few months…
▶ 43:32
in the final stages of cancer, she would claim that she seemed to float above her own life in a way that gave her a clear perspective. So anyway, that's it. She would basically, she had such a disposition that she didn't harbor ill will. I'…
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As usual, we find Dulles being anything he can do to better his position and where he went. Now, the funny thing is I noticed here about Wallach and her family who settled in Warrington. She also became a member of American Society for the …