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Jack Downing, Cold War spy who came out of retirement to help CIA, dies at 80 Harrison Smith Jack Downing, a renowned spymaster who became the only CIA officer to run and recruit agents in both Beijing and Moscow during the Cold War, then came out of retirement in 1997 to reinvigorate the agency’s demoralized clandestine branch, died June 27 at his home in Portland, Ore. He was 80. The cause was colon cancer, said his daughter, Wendy. Mr. Downing was the consummate field agent, colleagues said, a Harvard graduate and Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Viet...

March 11, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Peter Richardson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter First time Shelburne Councillor, Kyle Fegan started life in what is now Cambridge and for the first few years of life, until high school, moved all over Canada following his father’s job placements. Come high school, that job had landed the family in Orangeville and there they stayed. It was also in Orangeville that Kyle started his lifelong interest in martial arts, over the concerns of his mother, who finally acquiesced when he became a tee...

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