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...called him the OSS's "most professional counterintelligence officer." In the years that followed, all the directors of the CIA leaned on him. Allen Dulles seldom made a move on the clandestine side without first consulting him. Walter Bedell Smith made him his youthful éminence grise and bequeathed him his cherished fly-tying equipment. John McCone found him a fascinating and shrewd counselor...
...recently been pressing to be formally named Prime Minister; for another, his avarice was hindering Haiti's attempts to improve its international image and thereby its chances of getting aid from the U.S. Before news of the firing was broadcast, Jean-Claude guaranteed his former éminence grise safety if he remained in Haiti. But Cambronne, long accustomed to breaking such promises himself, took refuge instead in the Colombian embassy at Port-au-Prince. He was expected to fly later to Colombia, and then perhaps...
...general charge of the political campaign in the South is Communist Party Secretary Le Duan. Considerably less known in the West than his comrades, he prefers the role of éminence grise; he is the only one of North Viet Nam's revolutionary leaders who is of lower-class stock. Le Duan took responsibility for the campaign against the South in 1956 and helped create the National Liberation Front in 1960. An independent-minded hardliner, Le Duan resisted pressures to run the war along either Soviet or Chinese lines, proclaiming instead the "creative nature" of the Vietnamese revolution. Western...
Even out of context one could swiftly establish that the Senator in question was named Joseph, not Eugene. Yet few Americans, even today, would guess that the admonitory voice and the bitter sentiment about the Right came from Whittaker Chambers, the man so long cast as the eminence grise behind the Great Red Hunt of the 1950s. That gloomy misjudgment was Chambers' considerable cross to bear during the closing decade of his shadowed life. For the rest of us it is a significant loss that a mind as remarkable as his and a life lived so close...
...Eminence Grise. It is hardly possible to overstate the treacherous confusion that Richelieu's Europe presented to any would-be diplomat. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) turned much of the Continent into a wasteland. Alliances flickered on and off like fireflies. Richelieu did his work, too, in a time of witch burning and archaism. His very closest adviser and friend, a shrewd Capuchin named Père Joseph (for whose shadowy role the title Eminence grise seems to have been invented) was entirely obsessed, for example, with a yearning to renew the crusades against the infidel...