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electric_blue68

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6. Geez...

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 18, 2021, 12:18 AM

Jan 2021

Thanks for more info.

Since I was 8 or so when Dulles left the CIA didn't even hear his name till some years later. So he was like a spooky ghost tale for me. Where as J Edgar Hoover was a more present scary figure!

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Geez... electric_blue68 Jan 2021 #6

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