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      • Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 6, 1908, and later raised in Los Angeles. [ 1]
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  1. Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in...

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  3. Early life. Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 6, 1908, and later raised in Los Angeles. [ 1] . He was the second of four sons of Sarah Frances ( née Philips; 1881–1954) and Henry Lansdale (1883–1959).

  4. Feb 7, 2018 · Set in 1951, a decade before the United States became seriously involved in the war, the main character Alden Pyle, everyone claimed, must have been modeled on Lansdale, the lone American operative whose disavowable anti-Communist gambits were starting to gain fame in 1951.

  5. Feb 16, 2010 · Edward Lansdale, working undercover as an assistant air attache at Saigon's U.S. Embassy in the mid-1950s, led the CIA's Saigon Military Mission to apply psychological warfare campaigns, such as rumors and black leaflets, against Viet MInh Communists.

  6. Edward Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 6th February, 1908. During the Second World War Lansdale was a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an organization that was given the responsible for espionage and for helping the resistance movement in Europe.

  7. Edward Geary Lansdale was born in Dayton, Ohio, on February 6, 1908. His parents were Henry and Sarah Frances (Philips) Lansdale. According to biographer Cecil Currey, "Lansdale grew up as a typical American boy of his time.

  8. Jan 16, 2018 · Edward Lansdale was a California advertising man who joined the fledgling Office of Strategic Services during the World War II, later going on to become a CIA officer and U.S. Air Force major...