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2021-07-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Wild Bill Donovan, The Grandfather of American Intelligence

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-14 09:16|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 My favorite stories about him came from the upper end of the Depression. He was making a mid 6 figure income as a corporate lawyer. But he would drop everything including but not limited to meetings in progress if any of his boys from the 69th showed up.

A lot of them on hard times he made sure they left with a 'loan' or took them downstairs to sit with them while they had a decent meal. Haven't been a fan of his bureaucratic offspring for some time. But the man himself was as fine an officer in as dire a time as we have ever fielded.

Posted by Cesare 2021-07-14 13:01|| 2021-07-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#2 One of my heroes as a kid. A big difference between the man and his bureaucratic offspring is that Wild Bill was on our side.

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-14 13:12|| 2021-07-14 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Donovan was fought tooth and nail by Hoover and his FBI. Hoover won Latin America, but Donovan took the rest.

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-07-14 17:48|| 2021-07-14 17:48|| Front Page Top

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