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Research Paper On Karl Kalassay

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I only knew him as Grandpa. My sweet, adoring Grandpa. My hero. For many others, Karl Kalassay was a hero too, but for a different reason. Unable to join the Army due to poor eyesight, in 1939, when he was twenty-two years old, Karl was hired by the Office of War Information. His job was to read newspapers and telegrams from Hungary and develop details of what was going on inside the country as events unfolded in the European Theater. He read newspaper reports about seemingly mundane events, but that actually contained valuable information important to U.S. war intelligence. For example, he may have read something like this: Private Kalman of the 1st Royal Hungarian Bicycle Corps visited his parents in Budapest while on leave from his

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