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Moore, 53, a senior research fellow at Harvard's Russian Research Center and onetime analyst for the OSS, reached his conclusion after patient years of studying the structures-democracy, Communism, fascism-that mankind has erected, ostensibly to replace the tyranny of brute force. His first books focused on Soviet Communism as the newest and in some ways the most promising experiment in government. But he was soon disillusioned: Communism, he decided and said,* was all promise and no performance. In this book, which embraces all forms of government, he grants no better marks to democracy...
Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
Dulles' narrative is straight out of the best spy fiction. In Switzerland in 1942 he established an OSS listening post that listened right into Nazi Germany itself; for example, he knew months in advance of the generals' plot against Hitler in July...
Dick Helms, 53, has made his career in what Washington calls the "intelligence community." A Williams College graduate and a newsman before joining the Navy in 1942, he served as an OSS officer during the war and signed up with the CIA at its founding in 1947. He rose to become deputy director for plans-meaning coyert operations-under McCone, and has since handled the agency's delicate relations with Congress while simultaneously directing most of the CIA's pure-intelligence functions as Raborn's first deputy. He thus became the first professional ever to head...
...Minh was founded, with Giap a 1941 charter member along with Ho Chi Minh. Ho ordered the little professor to specialize in military affairs, and the career of the Red Napoleon began. His first self-education was in guerrilla operations against the Japanese who then occupied Viet Nam. The OSS supplied Giap with American weapons to that end, but Giap was looking to the future: he cached most of them for use in the resumed struggle against the French. On Aug. 15, 1945, as the Japanese surrendered, he led his guerrillas into Hanoi and took over the city...