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- 1 2 Antony Schmitz, The Spy Who Said No, Mother Jones Magazine, April 1988, pp. 16-19.
- ↑ Bud Schultz, Ruth Schultz: The price of dissent: testimonies to political repression in America p. 372
- ↑ Zinn, Howard, 2003, The Twentieth Century: A People's History, HarperCollins Publishing, New York, NY
- ↑ FBI Agent Fired for Beliefs Tries to Reclaim Job - Los Angeles Times Dec. 1987
- ↑ Hodge, James and Linda Cooper, 2004, Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY
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