July 4th, 2022. Special Brief: Hugh Francis Redmond
The President's Daily Brief
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The Story of Hugh and the C I A
His mother knew that he was a c i a officer. But they had nothing to tell her. The embassy and the consulates were emptied, their china networks gone. And so from 19 51 through 19 53, she heard virtually nothing other than confirmation once that he had actually been arrested. A german citizen who had been held in a shanghai jail said that he had been in a cell next to hugh. He reported that, at least initially, hugh was receiving relatively soft treatment on an effort to get him to confess to having conducted espionage for the c i a. One year later, that same man heard hugh's voice once again, but this time hugh
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