THE PHILADELPHIA SCENE ...

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 2, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

T '. AS A1T`INTERES G little dinner
last Week'?at the Italian Consulate on Locust st.
for of the, U. S. Central Intelligence Agency. and,
.Mrs. Dulles.
Also at the dinner given by Consul-General Ed-
gardo Sogno del Vallino and Countess Sogno were
Mr. and Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, of Haverford -and
Washington; Mr. and Mrs. George M. Cheston; 11ob.
.on Pittman, Henry P. Mcllhenny and Loelia,
Mr. Dulles and Count Sogno first met In 1944,
as World War II raged.in Europe. Count Sogno was
f the Italian underground's supreme
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a mem
Dulles was with the Office of Stra-
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and
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tegic Services. They saw each other in Switzerland. i
Later? Edgardo Sogno was taken prisoner by
the Nazis. Allen Dulles saved his life. In arranging
for the. surrender of German troops in Northern
Italy, Mr. Dulles insisted that he would not negotl
ate unless the lives of Count Sogno `and a half-dozen
other Italian partisan leaders were spared.
"He saved us from the firing squad," said Ed-
gardo Sogno.
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