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“... fears of a communist takeover. In a cable from Léopoldville in 1960, the CIA chief of station, Larry Devlin, warned that ‘embassy and station believe Congo experiencing classic communist effort [to]take over government. Many forces at work here: Soviets, Czechs, Guineans, Ghanaians, Communist Party etc.’ There wasn’t much truth in these claims. ‘At ...”

“... she said. North Carolina was the birthplace of Billy Graham and three US presidents, Andrew Johnson, James Polk and Andrew Jackson, and also, among the twinkling lights out there, you could find the uncelebrated birthplace of Thomas Wolfe, the North Carolinian who wrote Look Homeward, Angel. As the truck got nearer the Waffle House, someone on the radio ...”

“... Jews), a new controversy erupted in 2004 when it was revealed that a key Pentagon official called Larry Franklin had passed classified information to an Israeli diplomat. Israel is hardly the only country that spies on the US, but its willingness to spy on its principal patron casts further doubt on its strategic value. Israel’s strategic value isn’t the ...”