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...story that emerged had for its villain (or its goat) one Harry Jarvinen, 32, a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and a travel agency executive in Seattle. A Finnish army veteran, Jarvinen came to New York in 1941, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, later worked in the immigration service and as a seaman before going into the travel agency line. For the past six years, he has been an unpaid, occasional tipster of the Central Intelligence Agency...
Late last May, Jarvinen and one of his CIA friends were having some drinks together. The travel agent said something which caused the CIA man to send a report to Washington. The report was read there as information that Lattimore had in fact bought tickets in Seattle for a flight to Paris and thence to a point behind the Iron Curtain. CIA, without responsibility for internal U.S. security, passed the report on to the FBI and the State Department. State, a bit sensitive on the subject of Lattimore, asked Treasury to send a confidential watch-and-stop order against Lattimore...
Meanwhile, the Jarvinen tip was being checked. But by the time the FBI last week advised that it was a pure fabrication, State's precautionary action had made headlines. Lattimore was being pilloried for something he had not done...
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter...
...hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...