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When he was in his early 40s, a mere stripling, Nicholas Deak parachuted into the Burmese jungles and the Balkans on many spooky missions as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Now, in his early 70s, Deak has slowed down only a bit. He runs-not jogs, runs-three to five miles every morning on his own track at his estate in suburban New York. Then he is chauffeured to the global headquarters of Deak & Co., in the Deak-Perera Building near Wall Street, where he directs the largest foreign exchange business...
...gold we trust," is Deak's philosophy, and he has made many fortunes by dealing in gilt and anxiety. Clients crowd his Hong Kong branch offices to buy newly minted "Deak Dollars," small gold coins that command premium prices because they are stamped with Deak's aquiline features. Other customers stand in line at his 42nd Street outlet in Manhattan to buy gold coins and Swiss franc traveler's checks, which they stash away as investments. At this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened...
...Istevan Deak, director of Columbia's East Central Europe Institute, said yesterday he does not "doubt that Rhode was a supporter of the Nazi cause...
Rhode said earlier this week that he had to praise Hitler in the 1941 book or it wouldn't have been published, Deak said...
During the question and answer session following the talk, no one questioned Rhode about his actions in World War Two Germany, Deak said...