To those at the meeting who hadn’t recently observed Wisner at close quarters, that statement surely registered as shocking; the deputy director had once been regarded as a virtual rubber stamp for most any covert action proposal that crossed his desk. This was no longer true, though. In the last two years, there had been the WiN hoax in Poland, the disappearance of agents in Romania and Estonia and Lithuania. These were joined to the earlier deaths or disappearance of agents in Albania and Korea and Byelorussia and most anywhere else the CIA tried to pierce the Iron Curtain. All this changed
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