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Mar 18Liked by Henry R. Schlesinger

"ill-advised reboot of Rocky and Bullwinkle"

Excellent description of those mawkish texts.

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Thank you, da-link!

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Mar 19Liked by Jeff Stein

Men!

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To be honest and fair, so-called Romeo Spies specialized in targeting women. Stasi's Markus Wolf very early on recognized demographic anomalies in Germany -- lack of men due to two World Wars -- and launched dozens of Romeo Spy operations in the West. Dmitri Bystrolyotov, the Soviet Romeo Spy, was highly effective. And then there is Roald Dahl (yes, that Roald Dahl) who looked very snappy in his RAF uniform, was tasked as a romeo spy.

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