{"id":352,"date":"2009-06-07T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T22:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-06-07T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T00:59:07","slug":"finding-out-that-your-professor-was-a-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Finding Out that Your Professor Was a Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The name sounded so familiar.\u00a0 It was the Walter that threw me off.\u00a0 I didn’t know any Walter Meyers.<\/p>\n

Ever find out something about someone way after you knew them that really threw you for a loop?\u00a0 More to the point, find out something that was happening to someone way back when and you NEVER knew what he or she was going through?<\/p>\n

Welcome Kendall Meyers, the newly discovered Cuban spy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kendall was my European Studies professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Now I find out he was a spy.\u00a0 Not only that, it appears that we was being “turned” – isn’t that what they call it? – right when I was studying and working with him back in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

My, my, my.<\/p>\n

\"spy-vs-spy-without-bombs-775529\"Here’s how I rememer Kendall.<\/p>\n

He had a more-than-slight resemblance of Donald Sutherland.\u00a0 He was tall and lanky and bearded.\u00a0 He spoke in well-rounded words with a certain intensity and glee that got young minds excited.\u00a0 He was extremely curious with a razor-sharp logicians’ reckoning that meant you had better thought a few moves ahead if you were going to make a challenge.\u00a0 I remember him to be kind, but firm.\u00a0 He didn’t hide his liberal views (this was the first Reagan Administration) but I didn’t find him militant or bitter — only challenging.\u00a0 He’d be the guy who’d have that “challenge authority” bumper sticker on his car.<\/p>\n

He loved the Zebra Lounge off Mass Ave. which he would constantly remind us has the best pizza \/ beer combination in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

But most of all I remember his curiosity and his emotion.\u00a0 He was the type of instructor (I can’t remember whether he was working on his PhD or had just finished with David Calleo) that would ask you why you thought something and seemed to really\u00a0 be interested in the answer you gave.\u00a0 He would be the one to say “I’m curious why you say that.”\u00a0 But he’d also be the one who’d as passionately simply say that the conclusion you’ve come to is wrong.\u00a0 And say that with a zeal and conviction — but no malice! – that betrayed a passion in convictions.<\/p>\n

That was the Kendall I knew at SAIS.<\/p>\n

I had plenty of professors at SAIS that I suspected as a spy.\u00a0 But I suspected them all of working for the CIA.<\/p>\n

How odd that Kendall would be Castro’s eyes and ears in Washington.<\/p>\n

Books and covers.\u00a0 A reminder of all the secrets we keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The name sounded so familiar.\u00a0 It was the Walter that threw me off.\u00a0 I didn’t know any Walter Meyers. Ever find out something about someone way after you knew them that really threw you for a loop?\u00a0 More to the point, find out something that was happening to someone way back when and you NEVER…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,19,23,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}