Jules Dubois (31 March 1910,

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- 15 August 1966,

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'', 17 August 1966
Jules Dubois Dies in Bogota Hotel
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correspondent for the ''

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'' (1947–1966) and chairman of the

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's press freedom committee, which he helped to organize in 1951.''

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'', 15 April 1957
The Press: Freedom Fighter
/ref> On his unexpected death of a heart attack in

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, in August 1966, he was described as "the world's most widely known and most decorated reporter of Latin American affairs". Dubois worked for the ''

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'' (1927–1929), before moving to

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and working on various newspapers there. At the outbreak of

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he became an army intelligence officer, serving in Panama, North Africa and Europe as well as the

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. He was a graduate of the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at

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. ''

'' described him as "an old friend" of Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas, Armas having "studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth." Dubois was present during the

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which brought Castillo Armas to power. His obituary declared that "he knew every president, every chief of staff, every dictator, and most of the would-be dictators in Latin America," and "could get more information on a telephone in a hotel room in one afternoon than most correspondents could get in months of travel." He won the 1952

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(from

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), the 1959 Hero of Freedom Award from the IAPA, and the 1966

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. In 2000 the Inter American Press Association's new headquarters building was named after Dubois. In 1977 ''

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'' reported that Dubois was said to have been a

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asset.

Books

* ''Fidel Castro: Rebel, Liberator, or Dictator?'',

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, 1959 * ''Freedom is my beat'', Bobbs-Merrill, 1959 * ''Operation America: Beyond Cuba - The Inside Story of the Communist Plan to Subvert Latin America'', New York, 1963 * ''Danger Over Panama'', Bobbs-Merrill, 1964

References

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