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"Christison," said the captain, "we have someone who knows better how to fight for us than we do ourselves.
A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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According to a memorandum of that conversation, “Miss Foster felt that General Gracey had acted with much less circumspection at Saigon than General Christison had demonstrated at Batavia.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Shortly before his arrival, Christison held a press conference in which he outlined his military mission in Java.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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According to a memorandum of that conversation, “Miss Foster felt that General Gracey had acted with much less circumspection at Saigon than General Christison had demonstrated at Batavia.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The following day, she was asked to brief General Slim, commander of the Allied land forces in SEAC, upon whom Christison clearly wanted to impress the strength of the nationalist movement and urgency of the situation.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The following day, she was asked to brief General Slim, commander of the Allied land forces in SEAC, upon whom Christison clearly wanted to impress the strength of the nationalist movement and urgency of the situation.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Shortly before his arrival, Christison held a press conference in which he outlined his military mission in Java.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Prior to his retirement from the CIA in 1979, Christison served as Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis, overseeing 200 analysts who collected intelligence and provided analysis on all regions and every country in the world.
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On the trial of Madeleine Smith, Professor Christison -- at that time the first toxicologist of England -- stated that if in any case the symptoms and post-mortem appearances corresponded exactly with those caused by arsenic, he should be led to _suspect_ poisoning.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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The extent of country from which rhubarb of one kind or another is actually collected, according to Christison, stretches from Ludall, in
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