Jean Szentgyorgyi

I'm leaving town to visit family tomorrow morning; and there simply isn't time just now to answer your questions today. I'll be home again next week and give your comments the attention it deserves. In the meantime, let me refer you to two articles by my husband: How Does It Feel To Be Bugged, Watched, Followed, Hounded and Pestered by he C.I.A.?, Esquire Magazine, June 1975. Girl Spy Against Castro, LOOK Magazine, December 29, 1964 The LOOK story was about the anti-Castro CIA's activities, so, of course, knew what he was reporting about. He believed at the time that he was doing a favorable piece about how the CIA functioned. As it turned out, they were absolutely furious about the story; and from that time on they went on a relentless campaign to destroy him as a journalist. We thought of suing publishers who reported that he worked for the CIA, and were told by a lawyer that: "It is not slander to say that a person works for the United States government!"

I do appreciate your system for giving me the opportunity to address some of the inaccuracies about my husband's life and work. The ubiquitous reports that he worked for the CIA are very distressing to our family, as they were to him in his lifetime. A CIA mole posing as a journalist is not a journalist!!! His passion for his vocation--and loathing for the CIA and all its works--remained with him up to the very last days of his life.

I am the wife of Andrew St. George. I am willing to answer questions on my husband.