THE PHILADELPHIA SCENE ...

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310012-1
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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December 20, 2016
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January 22, 2007
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12
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May 2, 1962
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NSPR
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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 b er o a mem Dulles was with the Office of Stra- Mr and . comm . 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. Approved For Release 2007/01/22 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310012-1