From Nov. 1, 2011, Yahoo! News by Ian Shapira.
In the CIA Museum there is a letter from a father to his three-year-old son. The gold-embossed letterhead with a Swastika which also bears the name Adolf Hitler.
"Dear Dennis" it begins.
"The man who 'might' have written on the card once controlled Europe, three years ago when you born. Today, he is dead, his memory dispised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellect and honesty.
He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat-- a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high."
Love, Daddy"
That Dennis, is Dennis Helms, now 69 and a New Jersey lawyer. His father was Richard Helms and was CIA Director during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras.
Right after Germany's surrender, Lt. Helms, sneaked into Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin and pilfered his stationery. He dated the letter "VE Day" for May 8, 1945.
I don't know, the CIA director stealing something?
Putting No-Longer Needed Stationery To Good Use. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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