A poem about Vietnam by Oswald LeWinter

[Carsten Wiethoff]

While the CIA and its cut-outs were all over Vietnam, my hunch is that LeWinter may well have been connected with the Ted Shackley 'bunch' in and around Vietnam....can't prove it...just a 'feelin''. Would be interesting to know what exactly he was doing and connected to/with in Vietnam.

In one of the more unlikely places (a sailboat forum) I found a 'biography' of LeWinter most likely translated from another language (Portuguese?) that says the following:

He joined the U.S. Army in 1950 as second lieutenant in the Battalion of the Airborne Rangers. He fought in Korea, was wounded and taken prisoner by the Chinese and spent eleven months as a prisoner of war.

He traveled through Asia while in license for combat wounds.

In 1954 he joined the Information Service of the Army and joined the staff of General Ed Landsdale in the Philippines and Vietnam until 1955.

He left active service, he returned to college and began teaching at various universities.


In 1964 he published a scholarly essay "Shakespeare in Europe" and was awarded the American Philosophical Fellowship. He traveled through Eastern Europe doing research on Shakespeare. An article, "Shakespeare in Poland," was published in The Shakespeare Encyclopedia.

In 1965 he joined the Central Intelligence Agency and was simultaneously placed on the List of Active Army Reserve. He served in the Army and the CIA until 1985. The last post in the CIA was the head of ITAC (Intelligence Threat Analysis Center) in NATO. The post he held when he retired from the army was that of Major General in 1983.

(from http://www.sailnet.com/forums/off-topic/...post870883)


As I said, it is amazing that wherever you look, you find LeWinter. I was unable to determine the origin of this text, but I think it may be from one of his books, published in Portuguese only. (http://www.wook.pt/ficha/democracia-e-se...a/id/66040)

Edit: Confirmed. http://bravamarildo.webnode.pt/os-segred...emocracia/