A poem about Vietnam by Oswald LeWinter

[Carsten Wiethoff]

An interesting (in other than obvious ways) literary magazine is Ygdrasil (http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/), especially the June 2003 issue (http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/Y-0306.HTM), featuring material about and poems of LeWinter.

I noted that on the home page it says

Klaus Gerken, EDITOR and Founder
kgerken@synapse.net

Heather Ferguson, Production Editor

Mois Benarroch, European Editor -- specializing in Hebrew and Spanish submissions
Mois Benarroch

Michael Collings, Contributing Editor

Oswald Le Winter, Contributing Editor

Michael Parker, Site Banner Design 2011

I quote from the introduction of the 2003 issue:

Kenneth Rosen


FORGING REALITY, THE POETRY OF OSWALD LE WINTER


Oswald LeWinter is an American poet living in Portugal. He was born in
Vienna, Austria, separated from his family and shipped by boat to America
to escape the holocaust of the Third Reich. In the United States he lived
in a Philadelphia orphanage for Jewish refugees and did not see his parents
again until he was ten and they had immigrated. He was educated at U. Cal.,
Berkeley, where he lettered in track and was an all-star football player,
declining an opportunity to try-out with the San Francisco professional
football team in order to become a U.S. Ranger and serve in Korea. Eventually
LeWinter completed his advanced degrees at Columbia University, and acquired
a doctorate in psychology in Germany. LeWinter worked on many continents
for many years, primarily in disinformation and disruption, for American
Central Intelligence. Most recently he was for three years in Vienna,
place of his birth, as an involuntary guest of the Austrian government,
for seeking to provide the aggrieved Egyptian billionaire Mohamed El Fayed
with documents illustrating Buckingham Palace and British intelligence
services' involvement with the death of his son Dodi El Fayed and Dodi's
fiancee Princess Diana, in return for money. Mohamed El Fayed subsequently
and unsuccessfully sued the American government under the Freedom of
Information Act for the same papers he declined to purchase from retired
General LeWinter, explaining in court that LeWinter's papers were forgeries
of genuine documents.