Bruce Holdt

Brazil (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

I decided to write this book because I enjoyed my time in Brazil so much that I wanted to share it with others. When I finished my tour in the Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel, I wanted to get out of the rat race in DC. I requested an assignment as a defense attach. My detailer gave me three choices for an attach assignment. They were Yugoslavia, Chile, or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was not interested in Yugoslavia, but Chile interested me until I found out two American teenagers had been doused with gasoline and set on fire in Chile during a demonstration. I chose Rio as my first choice. Prior to going to Brazil, I received a year of Brazilian language class in Washington, DC. My family was living in a home next to my wifes mothers home in Battle Lake, Minnesota, which is a small town in Northern Minnesota. I lived in Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) in US Naval Activity Anacostia, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. The BOQ was on the Columbia River, so I decided to try my hand at fishing for catfish. When I caught my first catfish, I filled it and fried it. I tasted awful, so I stopped fishing for catfish. The Officers Club next to the BOQ had a band every Wednesday night that imitated the Blues Brothers. I had to go early to get a seat at the bar to watch the show. The club was always full for the show. A great time was had by all. One of my teachers, named Marissa, at the Portuguese language school had red hair and did not look like a Brazilian like the other teachers. I asked her about it, and she told me she was from a small town in Southern Brazil that was settled in by Germans after the Second World War. The language instruction included a one-on-one session every day. I was able to request Marissa. She was very patient with me, and I learned to speak Portuguese fairly well. Once a week, the students and teachers would bring a dish from their native country. I decided to make bruschetta, a dish of toast with tomatoes and olive oil, which I had learned to make when we were living in Italy. When I made the toast in the BOQ, I made some smoke, which set off the fire alarm. We had to evacuate the building until the firemen had arrived by a fire truck to check out the cause of the alarm going off. I did not tell anyone that I caused it making toast. One the weekends I worked for a local company that took children and teenagers skiing. We rode from Washington, DC, to a variety of mountains in West Virginia. I enjoyed skiing with older, better skiers as they did not need a lot of instruction. I also skied a lot with a CIA agent who had taught the Greek army to ski. He skied on long skis in the Austrian style. I bought some long skis like his, and to this day, they are the only skis I am comfortable with. Skiing every weekend got me in great shape. I lost a lot of weight, getting down to 180 pounds, which is what I weighed when I graduated from high school. In order to get around DC, I bought a 1963 Fiat convertible, which was literally falling apart. I used the garage on the US Naval Activity Anacostia to repair the various wrong things with the car. I welded a sheet of aluminum to the floor of the car, which had a large hole in it. I also had to repair both front and back bumpers. The Fiat did not have a heater, so one snowy winter day, I tried to drive it back to Anacostia from language school. I got so cold that I finally drove off the main road in Alexandria, Virginia, toward the Metro Station. I drove as far as I could and parked the car alongside the street in a snowbank. I walked to the Metro and took it back to Anacostia. After language school, I attended an attach training at the Defense Intelligence Institute on the US Air Force base next to the Naval Activity. After I completed language training, I attended defense attach at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The DIA is the central producer and manager of foreign military intelligence for the United States. As one

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781483683751
• Artikelnr.: 69302601

Autorenporträt

Bruce Holdt is a retired military officer. He served thirty years in the US Navy. He has written an interesting and exciting book about the three years he was the US Military Attaché in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was part of The Defense Intelligence Agency's clandestine military attaché service, conducting espionage activities with the Central Intelligence Agency throughout Brazil. He describes several secret dangerous missions in thrilling detail.