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thedailywhat: Letter Of Note of the Day: On the day the WWII Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany’s armed forces — better known today as V-E Day — OSS intelligence operative Lt. Richard Helms penned the above letter to his 3-year-old son Dennis, using stationary he picked up from the personal stores of former dictator Adolf Hitler. Transcript:  Dear Dennis, The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe - three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellectual honesty. He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat - a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high. Love, Daddy. Richard Helms went on to become the first and only director of the CIA to date to have been convicted of lying to Congress. His son Dennis is now a 69-year-old intellectual-property lawyer in New Jersey. [wapo / l.o.n.]

thedailywhat:

Letter Of Note of the Day: On the day the WWII Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany’s armed forces — better known today as V-E Day — OSS intelligence operative Lt. Richard Helms penned the above letter to his 3-year-old son Dennis, using stationary he picked up from the personal stores of former dictator Adolf Hitler.

Transcript: 

Dear Dennis, 

The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe - three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellectual honesty. He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat - a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high. 

Love, Daddy.

Richard Helms went on to become the first and only director of the CIA to date to have been convicted of lying to Congress. His son Dennis is now a 69-year-old intellectual-property lawyer in New Jersey.

[wapo / l.o.n.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

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