[PIF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Nichols_(spy)

[JBW1949]

W.E.B. Griffin has a series of books, “The Corps”

The main character, Ken McCoy, in the fictional series is patterned after Nichols in books 8, 9 and 10....

[GreyFriar]

USAF intel during Korean War ping

[DUMBGRUNT]

This heartening story, however, was not at all typical of what happened to agents Nichols recruited and sent North. Most of his agents did not return from that first mission and the pattern would recur again and again. “Nobody expected them to return alive,” said Kim Bok-dong, a translator who worked for Nichols in 1950. “It was as if they were being sent to be killed.”
“Nichols was very focused, but he sacrificed too many Koreans to accomplish his mission,” said Lee Kang-hwa, a retired general in the South Korean Air Force who fought in the war and knew Nichols. “It is very unfortunate that a lot of Koreans were sent to die.” Nichols was not the only American sending South Koreans to near-certain death. CIA operations during the war were “not only ineffective but probably morally reprehensible in that the number of lives lost and the amount of time and treasure expended was enormously disproportionate to attainments there from,” an agency review concluded years after the war.

How many did the OSS and MI5 and MI6 send out, many women too?

[Yorlik803]

That kind of work isn’t always pretty. Sometimes it takes a hard man making ugly decisions to get the job done. Salute to this warrior.

[bitt]

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[Twotone]

Interesting story, although they are definitely over-hyping the article with the ‘Kurtz’ stuff. Maybe you have to read the book for that.