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      • Laurence Duggan, also known as Larry Duggan, was a 20th-century American economist who headed the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II, best known for falling to his death from the window of his office in New York, ten days after questioning by the FBI about whether he had had contacts with Soviet intelligence.
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    Laurence "Larry" Duggan (1905-December 20, 1948), was head of the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II. In 1948, Duggan fell to his death from the window of his office in New York, ten days after being questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

  3. May 13, 1996 · And what of Laurence Duggan? He is yet another “martyr,” whose life was supposedly dashed on the shoals of anti-Communist paranoia. A professional diplomat, Duggan in 1935 became head of the...

  4. The man later pronounced dead was identified as Laurence Duggan, a veteran official of the U.S. State Department, where he had worked for fourteen years primarily as head of the Latin American division before resigning in 1944. In 1939, former communist Whittaker Chambers had identified Duggan as a communist to Assistant Secretary of State ...

  5. Oct 7, 2005 · In December 1948, the renowned broadcaster Edward R. Murrow went on the air to denounce the Red-hunters of the U.S. government who had hounded his friend and mentor Laurence Duggan, a former...

  6. Dec 31, 2014 · A memoir of Helen Duggan Muehleck about her first husband, Laurence Hayden Duggan, who died on December 20, 1948, in the midst of the Second Red Scare.

  7. Laurence Duggan, also known as Larry Duggan, was a 20th-century American economist who headed the South American desk at the United States Department of State during World War II, best known for falling to his death from the window of his office in New York, ten days after questioning by the FBI about whether he had had contacts with Soviet ...

  8. The late Laurence Duggan, as chief of the State Department's Division of American Republics and later as Political Advisor to the Secretary of State, was one of the chief architects of the Good Neighbor Policy.

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