and insulting and basically badly behaved that he got fired and was about to be sent home when william stevenson decided to recruit him as a spy. stevenson had become aware of his antics but he decided to take a chance on dahl. someone remarked one reason he decided to hire dahl as he felt nobody that badly behaved would be suspected of being a spy. stevenson also couldn't afford to be choosy. remember by 1940 europe had been at war for several years and the train sort of seasoned the secret service types. they were already working in europe on braking the na dmarko indy 500 troup maneuver. they were already in europe doing important work and this was a kind of risky black book operation. it was a counter espionage operation, propaganda operation and he was expected to find his people where he could. because he himself was not a trained spy comedy was a self-made millionaire and someone had worked with churchill and churchill was out of power as an industrialist and someone with holdings and steel and airplanes he had a report on the third reich's business activities and given a lot of economic

he found adlai stevenson 1956 run for the president be. a few friends william fulbright run for the senate. he found that is the real architect of gene mccarthy's 1968 piece, presidential peace against the war in vietnam. and i can go on and on. i never thought a political role would be this massive. but his favorite of all with amnesty international and it's his favorite because he gave millions of dollars to amnesty when he died. i was the principal beneficiary. amnesty was formed in the early 60s. fromm was one of the founders. in fromm kept it afloat for the first 20 years refunding, a lot of fun name. amnesty was pretty shaky its first decade, would've folded probably without fromm's updates now what i am suggesting here is recall people like gates, going back to andrew carnegie, the big money people who deal with causes that are removed from us, but a major philanthropist for progressive political causes. i'd like to just mention a few of the causes he was involved in. two cases. one, probably the most important, most skillful case amnesty ever had, his c