SALT LAKE CITY — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there from the U.S. as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. It was one of many propositions the coup leader’s American son made to former football teammates in …
The man behind a covert WW2 operation Netflix The new Netflix series Transatlantic explores a covert WW2 operation to rescue artists, intellectuals and authors from Nazi-occupied Europe, writes Matthew Wilson. At the outbreak of World War Two, a US journalist named Varian Fry volunteered to travel to the French port city of Marseilles and help repatriate members of the continent's …
