A poem about Vietnam by Oswald LeWinter

[Carsten Wiethoff]

Just loving this thread Carsten even though I've nothing to contribute. He certainly is intruiging and you've found so many interesting obscure titbits on him. Carry on!

Thanks Magda! Maybe with your skills you can try to find out if a unit called ITAC (Intelligence Threat Assessment Center) ever existed, since I am currently not able to confirm or deny it.
What I can confirm is that an international Rainer-Maria-Rilke prize existed and that Karl Krolow (the man who allegedly wrote one of the texts about LeWinter in 1997 reprinted in Ygdrasil 2003), a German poet did get it in 1975. He died in 1999.
http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/karl_krolow_2670.html (in German)
There are other authors associated with that prize over the years, and I did not find one yet, that I was unable to verify. On the other hand I did not find good references to Oswald LeWinter getting that prize in 1997, which could not come from LeWinter himself. Not that this is terribly important, but it would help to decide whether this little tidbit is disinformation or cover or whatever.