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#1 nexfast

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Posted Yesterday, 14:27

I don't think there is here a topic dedicate to this one-time GP driver. I was trying to ascribe him a nationality but seems to be a hard task. He appears either as an Italian or an American but was born in Istanbul with a German name (also I've seen Turkish nationality being linked with his name). It is not clear if he went first to Italy and then to the United States or vice-versa. During the war he was a captain serving in the CIA forebear, the OSS in Italy, and married an italian partisan fighter close to the Communist Party. It seems they lived in the early fifties in the US and left because of McCarthyism. So, for sure  a very adventurous life but with very little detail that I could find about him. Does anyone have more information?


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#2 Vitesse2

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Posted Yesterday, 16:01

Only one thing comes up for him on Ancestry - a travel record from New York to Rome on a Linee Aeree Italiane DC-6 on April 2nd 1952. US passport, born in Turkey. Home address: 190 Mallory Avenue, Jersey City NJ. Apparently travelling alone. Can't find him on the 1950 census either.