Archer Blood

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 18:11:14 CST 2013


Deep Throat + Archer Blood = DeepArcher?

On Saturday, December 7, 2013, David Morris wrote:

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> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/the-blood-telegram-by-gary-j-bass.html
>
> In β€œThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide,” Gary
> J. Bass, a professor of politics at Princeton, has revived the terrible and
> little-known story of the birth of Bangladesh in 1971, and of the sordid
> and disgraceful White House diplomacy that attended it. This is a dark and
> amazing tale, an essential reminder of the devastation wrought by the
> hardhearted policy and outright bigotry that typified much of the diplomacy
> of the cold war. It is not a tale without heroes, though; a number of
> American diplomats β€” most especially a man named Archer Blood β€” risked and
> even sacrificed their careers by refusing to knuckle under to the White
> House and telling the truth about what was happening on the ground.
>
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