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In mid-July 1976, the CIA learned that two high-level Uruguayan intelligence officers had discussed a possible assassination attempt on Koch by Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Chilean secret police under dictator Augusto Pinochet.
May 12, 2022 · The New York Times has posthumously outed Ed Koch, the three-time Democrat mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, as gay. The piece is a detailed account of the loneliness of a closeted ...
May 7, 2022 · The people who described Mr. Koch’s trials as a closeted gay man span the last 40 years of his life, covering disparate social circles and political allegiances.
Feb 4, 2013 · He declared that most blacks were anti-Semitic, and at one point disparaged Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy, saying Jews "would be crazy to vote" for him.
Feb 3, 2013 · Ed Koch, New York’s mayor from 1978 through 1989, a period of enormous change for the LGBT movement, including the beginning and some of the worst years of the AIDS crisis, died on February 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old and died without ever publicly acknowledging his homosexuality.
Feb 1, 2013 · The money and the bully-pulpit worked. The epidemic there, while devastating, was nothing like it became in New York. Koch’s failure in AIDS should be recalled as the single-most significant...
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May 8, 2022 · Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, had a bombastic style that defined the image of a big-city leader in the 1980s. But as open as Koch could be, my colleagues Matt Flegenheimer and Rosa...
