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...absorbed by the personal element of intelligence gathering. He often told his juniors of the time that "an insignificant little man" sought out someone in authority at the U.S. consulate in Bern, where Dulles was a minor official toward the end of World...
Early Surrender. Dulles did change history when he returned to Bern in 1942 as OSS chief in Switzerland. A contact known pseudonymously as George Wood, in the German Foreign Office, sent him more than 2,000 documents from Berlin. Dulles kept in touch with the ring of German officers who tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. He learned of the V-l and V-2 secret-weapons development at the Peenemunde research center in time for Allied bombing raids to set the program back for crucial months...
Married. Rómulo Betancourt, 60, former President of Venezuela (1959-64) and still its most powerful politician; and Child Psychologist Renee Hartman Viso, 44, his longtime friend; both for the second time; in Bern, Switzerland...
Born a dermatologist's son in Warsaw in 1884, Dr. Funk left Switzerland's Bern University in 1904 with a Ph.D. in chemistry and began his research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, moving on to London's Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in 1910. He pursued the causes of beriberi, the deficiency disease that attacks the nerves, heart and digestive system. Beriberi was particularly prevalent in those days among Eastern peoples whose diet consisted mainly of polished rice...
...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...