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Thanks, Vietnam was over in '75, Stoltenberg was 16 then. It's just all so absurd.

>>mzs+(OP)
>Thanks, Vietnam was over in '75, Stoltenberg was 16 then. It's just all so absurd.

Not necessarily.

I had thought Hersh's "since the Vietnam War" line to be poorly phrased, or an editing mistake, but /u/michaelmacmanus makes an interesting point <https://np.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/10wx42b/seymour_h...>. Maybe we should take the line literally!

>>TMWNN+Bw
Ah, yes, the CIA were so threatened by a couple of kids throwing rocks at the American embassy, they enlisted a child to uncover the identities of the perpetrators, who presumably were punished with hard labour in the Norwegian gulags for their heinous crime of vandalism.

>>mzs+(OP)
Hersh possibly confused Jens with his father Thorvald Stoltenberg. Who travelled to North-Vietnam in 1970 to negotiate between them and USA, and who was commended for his negotiating skills by the am. intel community in a declassified rapport from 1980.

See my other comment for sources.