![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since he didn't speak English, I brought along a translator. Anyway, one day in July or August, when absolutely nothing, besides the country breaking up, I went for an interview with someone from the Agricultural Chamber, a professional organization of farmers. I was also quite a bit older than most of my colleagues who were mostly fresh out of university. I already had several years experience covering the Pentagon and Capitol Hill for a succession of sleazy defense-industry newsletters. It was manned by an ever-evolving band of American, Canadian, British, and Czech journalists, all young, and most without even half a clue. I worked at the Prague Post, a now-defunct, briefly legendary weekly newspaper, which endeavored to cover the news coming out of newly-democratic Czechoslovakia. ![]() Her name was Martha Dodd and I first learned about her when I came to Prague to be a 'foreign correspondent' back in 1992. I've spent the last bunch of years researching and writing a book about an American woman who became a Soviet spy during the 1930s and then led a fairly bizarre life because of it. Thought I'd pop in and apologize and bring everyone up to date. I know I've been missing in action, lo, these many months. ![]()
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