Edmundo (Paperback)

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This is a biography of Edmundo Lassalle, a Mexican who came to the U.S. in 1935 to attend Columbia University, married the daughter of a college dean, became a student/teacher at the University of California earning a Phi Beta Kappa key. He became a U.S. citizen and an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller, then a member of the Roosevelt Administration before becoming an American espionage agent in Spain while employed as the European Representative of the Walt Disney Company. At the end of the war, he divorced his first wife in order to marry a German princess whose father was an early supporter of Adolf Hitler. Later, he divorced the princess to marry the first of two wealthy American heiresses. Financially secure, he took up residence on the upper east side of Manhattan to devote his time and talents to the preservation of ancient monuments. In 1974, divorced from his fourth wife and failing in health, he took his own life in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing (June 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602640009
• ISBN-13: 978-1602640009
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,919,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating story about a little know time in our history, July 21, 2007

By	Gentle Reader (Washington,, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This book follows the amazing life and career of Edmundo Lasalle a mysterious Mexican national who became a spy for the U.S. in Spain during WWII. The author's frustrations doing the research for the book are almost as interesting as the story itself. You can't help but wonder why some much of this information is still classified.

After working for Disney, the cover for his spying, Edmundo married successively richer women but never seemed to find what he really wanted from life. He obviously was an incredibly charming man who used that charm to create quite a life for himself, one well worth reading about. This book also corrects some misinformation about Edmundo that appeared in the book The Spy Wore Red.

I learned a great deal about the operations of the OSS the precurser of the CIA and highly recommend this fascinating book.