Word: foianini
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Rising fast in these tough times was a tough, nervous, roving-eyed, brown-haired young spy named Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and a Bolivian mother. He grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded...