The notebook belonged to Paul Linebarger, who under his own name played many roles: U.S. Army colonel, CIA operative, psychological warfare expert, scholar of Asia, teacher, adviser to an American president. ...But it was his science fiction—published as Cordwainer Smith—that gilds his legacy today. https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2018/fall/cordwainer-smith-paul-linebarger/
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After my active Army time I joined a psychological operations reserve unit. Someone loaned me a copy of Psychological Warfare to read, but I wasn’t aware of Linebarger’s back story. The world is full of fascinating people, and sometimes we never get to learn just how fascinating they are.