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...process, we don't learn very much about him. He has an apparently limitless amount of money, and an extraordinary intelligence for survival (he boasts of this). He describes some of his past in a sketchy and idealized way: he managed by cunning to escape from a totalitarian, evidently EasternEuropean state; in the United States he joined and then left "the Service," apparently something like the CIA. Now he travels around, maintaining a number of high-rise apartments in different cities, under different pseudonyms...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A New Jerzy | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

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