Leonard Linton papers, 1997-1999.

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Linton, Leonard. Leonard Linton papers, 1997-1999.

Leonard Linton papers, 1997-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53807154

Contains the following type of materials: memoirs. General description of the collection: The Leonard Linton papers consists of two manuscripts entitled, KILROY WAS HERE (1997) and KILROY WAS HERE TOO (1999). These manuscript detail Linton's early life, education, military service, and thoughts on international relations. Chapter headings from KILROY WAS HERE are: 1. Background; 2. Army training; 3. Joining the 82nd Airborne; 4. Military government by the 82nd Airborne; 5. Learning to deal with the Red Army; 6. Interlude; 7. Next assignment, symbolic reward: Occupy Berlin; 8. Views and reflections about the latent German problem; and 9. Epilogue, 50 years later. Chapter headings from KILROY WAS HERE TOO are: 1. Learning to deal with the Red Army; 2. What Berlin was like after its collapse; 3. The Soviets, Our new adversary in Berlin; 4. Mission to Rumania and Hungary; 5. Know your enemy; 6. Yalta, The most monumental of western failures; 7. Getting deeper into intelligence and counterintelligence; and 8. Concern for the future, notes comments, and recommendations.

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