The FReeper Foxhole Studies Nathan Hale

From the Virtual Tour of the CIA - Nathan Hale Statue

Located between the Auditorium and the Original Headquarters Building is a statue of Nathan Hale , the first American executed for spying for his country. One of three sculptures on the grounds, this statue is a replica of the original work created in 1914 for Yale University, Nathan Hale's alma mater, by Bela Lyon Pratt. The Agency's copy of the statue was erected on the grounds in 1973, 200 years after his graduation from Yale. Though there is no known portrait of Nathan Hale, this life-size statue portrays what little written description there is of him. The statue captures the spirit of the moment before his execution, a young man prepared to meet his death for honor and country, hands and feet bound, face resolute, eyes on the horizon, his last words, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," circling the base around his feet. He stands vigilant guard on the Original Headquarters Building and is a continuing reminder to its inhabitants of the duties and sacrifices of an intelligence officer.

Born to a family of twelve children in Coventry, Connecticut, Nathan Hale would be noted forever in history as the first American executed for spying for his country.

A Yale graduate at 18 in 1773, Nathan became a schoolteacher. With beginnings of the revolution swirling around him, he joined the Seventh Connecticut militia and was commissioned a lieutenant. He later joined the Continental Army's 19th Continental Regiment during the siege of Boston. In 1776 he was promoted to captain and was selected by Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton to lead a company of rangers.

After being forced to retreat from Long Island to Manhattan by the British, General George Washington needed information on the enemy's strength and future plans, which required sending a spy into the captured territory. Washington turned to Knowlton's Rangers for a volunteer for this dangerous assignment. The only volunteer to step forward was Nathan Hale.

Without benefit of a tight cover story, a good disguise, or proper training, Hale slipped behind enemy lines and managed to collect the information General Washington needed, but he was captured by the British as he attempted to return to his own lines. General William Howe ordered that he be hanged. The brave 21-year-old, on the morning of September 22, 1776, faced the hangman's rope and uttered his famous final words (a paraphrase from Joseph Addison's play "Cato"): "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

More than two centuries later, this young man's selfless love of country and his ultimate sacrifice for his nation's cause remain a continuing reminder to all American intelligence officers of the duties and sacrifices of their job.

Educational Sources;

Intelligence in the War of Independence. Central Intelligence Agency, 1997, p. 40. O'Toole, G.J.A., Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and Espionage. New York: Facts on File, 1988, pp. 216-218.
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For all the tributes and accolades he’s garnered, Nathan himself would probably like best to be remembered as his nephew once wrote:

"There is nothing romantic about the life of Nathan Hale…He was a simple-hearted, well-educated, intelligent country youth, always doing what he thought right; and that in those days was nothing singular. He died conscious that he had done right, and only regretting that the sudden end to which he was brought, rendered it impossible for him to do more good."

Nathan Hale is important in American history as a symbol of selfless dedication and sacrifice to the cause of liberty, a kind of patriotic saint. He is depicted in art and literature as handsome, athletic, religious, well-spoken, educated, adventuresome, popular—especially among young women, intelligent, romantic, poetic, and fun-loving—in short, the flower of American youth.

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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on June 20:
1189: John "Lackland" Plantagenet, King of England
1674 Nicholas Rowe England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1819 Jacques Offenbach Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1868 Helen Miller Shepard philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1894 George Delacorte NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1899 Helen Traubel St Louis, Missouri, soprano (or 6/16/1903)
1899 Jean Moulin hero of the French Resistance during WW II
1903 Glenna Collett Vare RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1906 Bob Howard Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1907 Lillian Hellman playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1909 Errol Flynn actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags)
1911 Gail Patrick Birmingham Ala, actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy)
1919 Bruce Gordon London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1920 DeForest Kelley Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
1924 Audie Murphy Kingston Tx, WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
1924 Chet Atkins Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1928 Jean-Marie Le-Pen France, leader National Front party
1928 Martin Landau actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker)
1931 Arne Nordheim Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1931 Olympia Dukakis actress (Moonstruck)
1933 Brett Halsey Santa Ana Calif, actress (Paul-Follow the Sun)
1933 Danny Aiello NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1933 Jean Boiteux France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 Rossana Podesta Tripoli Lybia, actress (Hercules, Ulysses)
1942 Brian Wilson Inglewood Calif, singer (Beachboys-In My Room)
1945 Anne Murray Nova Scotia, Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
1945 James F Buchli New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1945 John McCook Ventura Cal, actor (Codename: Firefox, Bold & Beautiful)
1946 Andr‚ Watts Nuremberg Germany, concert pianist (Oberon)
1947 Candy Clark actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
1950 Lionel Richie singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
1952 John Goodman actor (Roseanne, Everyone's All American)
1953 Brian Duffy Boston Mass, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45)
1953 Cyndi Lauper Brooklyn, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Vibes)
1955 Michael Anthony rocker (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1957 Butch Patrick Inglewood Calif, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
1960 John Taylor rocker (Duran Duran-Girls on Film)
1960 Michael Corbett Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
1961 Karin Enke German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1967 Joseph William Cathcart rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)

Deaths which occurred on June 20:
0840: Death of Louis I "the Pious," Holy Roman Emperor
0981: Death of St. Adalbert of Magdeburg
1597: Death of William Barents, explorer
1837 King William IV of England, dies
1947 Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1963 Gordon Jones actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 Joseph Self murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 Ralph Sanford actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1965 Ira Louvin country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1966 Georges LemaŒtre originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71
1977 Abner Biberman actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1984 Estelle Winwood actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 Sunny Johnson actress, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 Tim Herbert comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 Ina Balin actress, dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension in Conn

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 KARI PAUL A. COLUMBUS OH.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1966 MC DONOUGH JOHN R. SOUTH ORANGE NJ.
1966 TUNNELL JOHN W. VISTA CA.
1968 MC CAIN MARVIN RAYMOND JR BIRMINGHAM AL.
[08/07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0451: Atilla the Hun defeated by Aetius
1192: Richard I captures a large Moslem caravan (3rd Crusade)
1294: Edward III, King of England, sends his ambassadors to France, with a declaration of war
1367: Geoffrey Chaucer granted a royal pension for service
1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1907 1st Portland Rose festival
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott
1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes
1943 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)
1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen
1976 Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled
1976 River Country opens
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton
1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1983 Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes the flagship radio station of the NJ Devils
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Argentina : Flag Day
Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
West Virginia : Admission Day (1863)
US : Father's Day (Remind the guy how much you care) - - - - - ( Sunday )

Religious Observances
RC : Feast of St Silverius, 58th pope [536-37], martyr

Religious History
1529 Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Barcelona, which ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies.
1599 The Synod of Diamper reunited a native church in India with Rome. Discovered in 1498 by Portuguese explorers, this isolated pocket of worshipers traced their Christian origins back to the missionary efforts of the Apostle Thomas.
1776 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is not of hasty growth...but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but in time becomes a deep-rooted tree.'
1779 Birth of Dorothy Ann Thrupp, English devotional writer and author of the hymn, 'Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.'
1885 A band of Moravian missionaries landed on the shores of Alaska and founded the Bethel Mission. During the first year of their mission work among the, eskimoes, winter temperatures outside their makeshift housing plummeted to 50 degrees below zero!

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism."

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Good Morning Snippy, excellent biograpohy on Nathan Hale.

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