With the Soviet crushing of Poland’s bid for democracy, there were finally some in the American political and military hierarchy who saw the need to take a harder line against their erstwhile ally, even if they remained in the minority. Incredibly, though, even at this late hour, there were those among the “striped pants” crowd at the State Department who saw no need for intelligence work at all; as one special assistant to the secretary haughtily opined to a colleague, maintaining “clandestine operators in a foreign country against which we are not at war…would be honoring the totalitarians
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