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    Thomas Polgar (July 24, 1922 – March 22, 2014) was an American CIA officer who served as the Saigon, South Vietnam station chief from January 1972 until...
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  • Look up Polgár or polgár in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polgár or Polgar may refer to: Polgár, Hungary, a city in Hungary Alfred Polgar (1873–1955)...
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    Tanner 2000, p. 313. Todd 1990, p. 353. Schudel, Matt (31 March 2014). "Thomas Polgar, CIA official during the fall of Saigon, dies". The Washington Post...
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  • Pleasants". Retrieved 2011-11-29. Yardley, William (7 April 2014). "Thomas Polgar, C.I.A. Officer, Dies at 91; Helped Lead U.S. Evacuation of Saigon"...
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  • through February 1972 when he returned to Langley, Virginia. According to Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Shackley was linked to the Australian Nugan...
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    William Mosebey Jr. Eloise Page Major General Vang Pao James Pavitt Thomas Polgar Jose A. Rodriguez Jr John R. Sano Gary Schroen Winston M. Scott Theodore...
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    pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-85939-051-4. Schudel, Matt (31 March 2014). "Thomas Polgar, CIA official during the fall of Saigon, dies". The Washington Post...
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  • term. CIA’s Thomas Polgar replaced Ted Shackley as chief of Saigon station in January 1972. Following the Easter offensive in March 1972, Polgar advised CIA...
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    youngest recipient, aged 14, for resisting robbers in the Congo in 1966. Thomas Polgar, Saigon station chief from 1972 to 1975. The CIA Memorial Wall, located...
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  • Dr Cameron Dr Peter Roper, psychiatrist at Allan Memorial Institute Thomas Polgar, CIA Assistant Chief of Station in Berlin 1949–55 Dr John Gittinger...
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  • Roma groups consisted of only two families from the years 1501(Wasyl Duke, Polgar Duke) and 1357 ( Mikolaj Cygan). This situation changed irrevocably in the...
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    compete in high-level open tournaments. The Polgar sisters ended Soviet domination of women's chess as Susan Polgar became No. 1 in the world among women in...
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    grandmaster. In October 2007, Humpy became the second female player, after Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606. Humpy won three gold...
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  • ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. On 25 April 1975 CIA station chief Thomas Polgar, Timmes and fellow CIA agent Frank Snepp escorted former President Thiệu...
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    comment was also recorded that she was "politically confused". In 1979 Thomas Polgar, her former handler on behalf of US intelligence (and for many years...
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    Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion. Judit Polgár from Hungary is the only player who won Chess Olympiad medals in both competitions...
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    3½‍–‍2½ Barua; 2½‍–‍1½ Kamsky; 1½‍–‍½ Asrian; 2½‍–‍1½ Gelfand; 1½‍–‍½ Polgár; 3½‍–‍2½ Nisipeanu; 3½‍–‍2½ Akopian Anand had a bye in the first round....
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    such as Beyond Rubik's Cube, the Rubik Learning Initiative and the Judit Polgar Foundation, all of which aim to engage students in science, mathematics...
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  • and that she was surprised at "how actually strong the games are". Judit Polgár, who was the first woman to play for a world championship title, said that...
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    (1st ed.). London: Osprey Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-84176-583-9. Nataša Polgar, "Joinville: A Hagiographic Story about Oneself and About the Other," Narodna...
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    Kaufmann / Cecilia Bartoli / László Polgár) 2004: Beethoven – Fidelio (Jonas Kaufmann / Camilla Nylund / László Polgár / Alfred Muff / Elizabeth Magnuson...
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  • score and took the bronze. The number one female player in the world, Judit Polgár, was absent from the women's competition. Instead she represented Hungary...
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    619–633. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.07.017. hdl:10261/123985. PMID 23911892. Polgar G.; Sacchetti A. & Galli P. (2010). "Differentiation and adaptive radiation...
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    on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2017. Toll L, Berzetei-Gurske IP, Polgar WE, Brandt SR, Adapa ID, Rodriguez L, et al. (March 1998). "Standard binding...
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    grandmasters—Adams, Jones, and Luke McShane—and against Aronian and Judit Polgár). Anand participated in several high-level tournaments in 2013, including...
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    Luxemburg, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Karl Marx, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Erwin Piscator, Alfred Polgar, Gertrud von Puttkamer...
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  • Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d5 6. c4 dxc4 Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Classical Variation, Polgar Variation: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d5 6. c4 Nc6...
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  • Paulauskienė and Renata Turauskienė (née Domkutė) Susan Polgar, Sofia Polgar and Judit Polgár Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova, Nafisa Muminova, and Hulkar Tohirjonova...
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    Smyslov vs Predrag Nikolic, 6th Vidmar Memorial (1985), Portoroz, rd 3 Judit Polgar vs Vasily Smyslov, Women-Veterans (1992), Aruba, rd 5 Vasily Smyslov vs...
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    player József Mindszenty - cardinal Susan Polgar - chess grandmaster Judit Polgár - chess grandmaster Zsófia Polgár - chess player, teacher, and artist Lajos...
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