- Ladislas Farago
Ladislas Farago (1906-1980) was a
screenwriter and part-timejournalist who published a number of popular books on history and espionage, especially concerning theWorld War II era.He was the author of an acclaimed biography of
George Patton and received a screen writing credit for the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora! " together withGordon W. Prange . Some of his other work (for example, a book in which he claimed to have locatedMartin Bormann alive inSouth America in the early 1970s) was perhaps less reliable.He was born in
Hungary in 1906 and came to theUnited States in 1937. During the 1930s, he was on the payroll of several European intelligence agencies and duringWorld War II , he worked for U.S. Naval Intelligence. There he wrote, among other things, statements that were broadcast to the crews of GermanU-boat s in an attempt to induce them to surrender. These scripts were often aired under the name of Commander Norden. [ [http://www.uboat.net/forums/read.php?20,60003,60003 uboat.net - Discussion Forums :: Technology and Operations :: The SS Ceramic Incident ] ]Other aspects of Farago's intelligence activities are more problematic. The British historian Stephen Dorril, in his history of MI6, asserts that Farago was the 'most successful disinformer or dupe' concerning the presence of Nazis in South America.
Farago died in 1980. His son, John M. Farago, is a Professor of Law at the
City University of New York .elected bibliography
*"Abyssinia On the Eve (1935)
*"Abyssinian Stop Press (ed.)(1936)
*"Burn After Reading" (1961)
*"Strictly from Hungary" (1962/2004)
*"The Tenth Fleet" (1962)
*"War of Wits" (1962)
*"Patton: Ordeal and Triumph" (1963)
*"The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic" and the secret road to Pearl Harbor" (1967)
*"The Game Of The Foxes" (1971)
*"Spymaster" (1972)
*"Aftermath: The Search for Martin Bormann" (1974)
*"The Last Days Of Patton" (1981)His book "Abyssinia On The Eve" based on his trip to Ethiopia in 1935, is widely used by historians and is one of the most important sources about Ethiopia in this era.
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