Hugh Francis Redmond

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A former World War II paratrooper and native of Yonkers, New York, Hugh Francis Redmond later worked for the CIA. He was in Shanghai disguised as an ice cream machine salesman from 1946 to 1951, returning intelligence information on the Communists.

As he was boarding a ship to San Francisco to return to the United States, he was captured and imprisoned. Held for almost twenty years in a prisoner camp, he was repeatedly tortured[citation needed], but never admitted his connection to the CIA. In 1970, he died; the Chinese claim he slit his wrists on 13 April 1970. The Chinese cremated his remains and they were returned to the United States. Redmond was buried in Yonker's Oakland Cemetery on August 3, 1970 [1]. Considerable mystery still surrounds whether or not he was murdered during his imprisonment.

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  1. ^ Gup, Ted (2000). The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA. [[Doubleday (publisher)|]]. ISBN 0385492936. 
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