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...spring of 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave to a special White House courier a note on his personal stationery addressed to French President Charles de Gaulle. In it, Kennedy told De Gaulle that he had good reason to believe that Soviet spies had penetrated the highest echelons of French government - perhaps even the Cabinet - and offered to let De Gaulle's representatives interview his source for themselves. The French counterintelligence agency, SDECE, conducted an investigation that lent substantial credence to the Kennedy contention-but somewhere along the line the investigation was called off and the matter dropped. This...
...Grief," "shock,""shame" - the words appeared over and over again in thenation's press after the assassination of Martin Luther King. "We are becoming in the eyes of the world, and to an alarming degree in fact," said the Louisville Courier-Journal, "a violent nation of violent people, given to a disregard for life that must shame decent people here and throughout the world." Most papers declared that it was time for a nationwide soul searching. The assassination"demands the most sober reflection," editorialized the Los Angeles Times, "the deepest national self-examination...
...Winchendon Courier Winchendon, Mass...
...Communist countries, provided ideal cover and a frequent excuse to travel to Moscow. London's MI-6 spent five years preparing Wynne for his spy role before he ever met Colonel Penkovsky. Part of the training was a routine initiation into the ar cane arts of a courier: how to conceal film, where to hide messages, what to do if the Soviets plant a girl in his hotel room. But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured, and as it happened, he needed...
Evidence from the diaries presented during the trial indicated that Debray was actually a courier between Guevara ("Ramon") and Fidel Castro ("Leche"), who was supplying money, arms, training and medicines to the revolutionaries. "The Frenchman wants to join us," Che wrote in his diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front...