Word: hq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong Klose: not Erich but Hans, not 54 years old but 34, not an ex-officer but an ex-private in the Wehrmacht. A British sergeant snapped, "You lie." Hans Klose produced his Wehrpass (military identity card); the British shrugged. They turned him over to the Russian army HQ; again he swore that his first name was Hans, again a Red officer said...
...Thomas made his first parachute mission to France. He found the underground in a chaotic state, the left hand against the right, informers everywhere. In six or seven weeks of dogged work, largely by naked force of character, he and two Gaullists managed to set up a central Resistance HQ...
...divisions, doughty General James A. Van Fleet had quietly fleshed out about nine new ROK battalions by rounding up every Korean draftee he could lay his hands on. To blood his raw battalions, Van Fleet fed them one by one into front-line ROK divisions; meanwhile, he levied on HQ companies and quartermasters' depots for equipment and staff officers...
...Herter HQ was the nearest to the subway, directly opposite the Parker House. On the eleventh floor, squeezed in two miniscule rooms sat a large woman, languidly typing and starting at the large face of Christian A. Herter pinned to the opposite wall. She referred us to the publicity man, who worked out of an equally small office one floor below...
...Your Feb. 4 item on the new security classification, "cosmic," created by NATO, implies that this is the first use of a classification higher than top-secret . . . Early in 1944, Allied Force HQ in Algiers began planning for the invasion of southern France that year; the code word "BIGOT" was assigned as the security classification if or those matters which were "even more secret than top-secret." In fact, "BIGOT Y" card holders were authorized to see papers which personnel assigned "BIGOT X" cards could not-which placed "BIGOT Y" two security classifications above mere top-secret. Despite these precautions...