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| How One Man Helped Burn Down North Korea |
| 2017-10-16 |
| [Politico] It was long past time for Donald Nichols to go home. He had been spying in Korea for five years, rarely taking a day off, never returning stateside to see his family. His bosses in the U.S. Air Force had not seen an agent work so hard for so long. They called him a "one man war" and the "best intelligence operator" in the Far East. He "performed the impossible," his commanding general said. Still, air force rules were clear: He must rotate back to the United States. Nichols made his career by ignoring rules. A black-ops officer, he rarely wore a uniform and worked outside the chain of military command. As a captain, he did not take orders from colonels or majors. He reported directly to a general who gave him a long leash‐lots of cash and his own secret base, his own army of spies and his own rules. Nick, as he was known to his men, didn’t look or behave like spies from books or movies. A seventh-grade dropout from South Florida, he was grossly overweight, drank Coca-Cola by the case and ate Hershey’s chocolate bars by the box. He told his men that he hated women. In his quarters at night, he organized clandestine sexual encounters with young South Korean airmen. When he arrived in Korea in 1946, at the dawn of the Cold War, the peninsula was in chaos. The United States had arbitrarily cut Korea in half. The Soviet army had installed its puppet regime in the North. The U.S. Army had done the same in the South. There were border clashes, and a savage civil war broke out in the South. Americans back home paid no attention, but the fighting killed tens of thousands of Koreans. For Nichols, who was wildly ambitious and just 23 years old, it was a land of opportunity. He jumped into the thick of it, operating without supervision in a netherworld world of torture, mass killings and severed heads. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 ...Let me see if I understand the article: Stalin and the Kims decided to place all of Korea under a Communist dictatorship, and one lone nutcase in a USAF uniform (and I suspect this guy was NEVER Air Force, but rather CIA with USAF cover, and even that's doubtful) managed to set things up so that we kicked the Nork's a$$es so badly they haven't tried again since. Sure thing. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-10-16 04:45 |
#1 FTA:In the end, American bombs did not stop the war; Stalin did, by dying. After the dictator’s death on March 5, 1953, no one who mattered in the Soviet Union wanted to prolong the expensive bloodshed in Korea. While we're on this pleasant subject, check out the trailer for the up-coming comedy, "The Death of Stalin" |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-10-16 01:10 |