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    J. A.: A Biography
    J. A.: A Biography
    J. A.: A Biography
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    J. A.: A Biography

    By John Sager

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    John Urho Aalto, Jr., known to his many friends simply as Urho. Engineer, linguist, rifleman, archer, hunter, fisherman, intelligence officer and perhaps the last of the real mountain men in this cockeyed world. He was my best (male) friend for more than sixty years and I probably knew him as well as anyone outside his immediate family.

    This is his story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 21, 2021
    ISBN9781665529808
    J. A.: A Biography
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    John Sager

    John Sager is a retired United States Intelligence officer whose services for the CIA, in various capacities, spanned more than a half-century. A widower, he makes his home in the Covenant Shores retirement community, on Mercer Island, Washington.

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