My father, Ernest Silva, was a journalist until a few years after the war when he joined the CIA first as a translator and then as a latin american affairs specialist. In 1954, the year I was born, he was investigated as a suspected communist. According to the FBI the lie detector test proved inconclusive and he stayed on but received few promotions from that point until he took an early retirement in 1973.
My Father was not a communist but a Stevenson liberal the whole but was very poltical and so alot of the stuff I read when I was younger tended to be political as well. Geor more...
