Kennan’s slipperiness would only grow in the years ahead, especially once the OPC became a source of controversy. In fact, so energetically would Kennan seek to disassociate himself from his own creation that, years later, he would shamelessly tell a biographer that when it came to the OPC, “I scarcely paid any attention to it.” As Wisner’s eldest son and namesake, Frank Wisner Jr., charitably put it, Kennan possessed “at best, a mixed memory” of that period in his life. Indeed; in penning his sprawling, two-volume memoir, Kennan, the architect of “plausible deniability,” evidently chose to
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