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Miles Copeland, 74, Expert on Mideast, Writer and Ex-Spy
By JOAN COOK
Published : January 19, 1991
(...) Mr. Copeland served in the counterespionage branch of the O.S.S. and then joined the C.I.A. when that agency was founded after World War II. He worked primarily in the Middle East and from 1947 to 1950 was a political attache at the United States Embassy in Damascus, Syria.
After working in several Foreign Service posts, he left the Government in 1957 to form a Washington consulting firm. Friend of Mideast Leaders
Mr. Copeland was fluent in 10 languages, including French and Arabic, and had an inate shrewdness that won him friends like President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and the Shah of Iran.
He was able to maintain good relations with leaders who were often at odds with each other and explained his success this way : « I respect and like each of these men as individuals but I disagree with the political views of each of them openly and strongly so much that none of them can suspect me of political cooperation with any other. »
He wrote several books, among them « The Game of Nations, » « Without Cloak or Dagger, » and his autobiography, « The Game Player. »(...)
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