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(CONFESSIONS OF A THEORETICAL ASSASSIN)
Good Neighbors, April/May 1984 | Vol. 35, No. 3
Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador.
It exposed corruption. It hired drunks. Good writing was rewarded. No wonder every newspaperman wanted to work there.
The victors divided the Germans into three groups: black (Nazi), white (innocent), and gray—that vast, vast area in between
The admiral who commanded "the ship that wouldn't die" recalls the hellish and heroic hours after a kamikaze turned the carrier Franklin into an inferno.