The Book of Honor (54 page)

ABOVE: Hugh Redmond and his mother, Ruth, pose for a photo against the wall of a Chinese prison where Redmond was being held. After years of incarceration, the once-athletic Redmond would lose all his teeth and become afflicted with disorders of which he was forbidden to speak, even to his mother.
(Courtesy of William McInenly)

BELOW: At New York International Airport—Idlewild—the mothers of (left to right) Richard Fecteau, Hugh Redmond, and John Downey (Jessie Fecteau, Ruth Redmond, and Mary Downey) hold photos of their sons, each of whom was a CIA covert operative held in a Chinese prison. The date was January 1, 1957, and the three were on their way to China to visit their sons in prison.
(Courtesy of William McInenly)

RIGHT: A political cartoon from the July 11, 1970,
New York Daily News
that appeared after the Chinese reported that Hugh Redmond had committed suicide in one of their prisons. An accompanying editorial suggested what many already suspected—that Redmond had been murdered or died of neglect.
(© New York Daily News, L.P. reprinted with permission)

Ivan Berl King taken in 1978, the year he was killed in a secret CIA training mission in North Carolina. A legendary pilot, he had volunteered for the assignment even though someone else had already been slated to fly the ill-fated mission. Not even in death did his link to the CIA surface.
(Courtesy of Velma Waymire, his sister)

ABOVE: The badly mangled fuselage and wing of the plane that crashed into a North Carolina cornfield the night of July 13, 1978, killing CIA operatives Ivan Berl King and Dennis Gabriel. Local police who responded to the crash were told it was a matter of some sensitivity and that it would be best not to dig too deeply.
(Courtesy of Velma Waymire)

RIGHT: Dennis Gabriel with his son, Sean, at his side. Once hoping to be an Olympic decathlete, Gabriel was a seasoned CIA operative who had worked both the Mideast and Asia. He was killed along with CIA pilot Berl King in the July 13, 1978, crash of a small plane in North Carolina while on a secret training mission. His links to the Agency never surfaced.
(Courtesy of Dr. Ronald Gabriel, his brother)

Two passport photos of James Foley Lewis. The earlier of the two passports was issued October 31, 1975, immediately after his release from a North Vietnamese POW camp.
(Courtesy of Antoinette Lewis)

James Lewis in Laos, from a scrapbook he kept.
(Courtesy of Antoinette Lewis)

James Lewis and his Vietnamese-born wife, Monique, who was also killed in the bombing of the Beirut embassy. It was her first day on the job as a CIA secretary.
(Courtesy of Antoinette Lewis)

President and Mrs. Reagan at Andrews Air Force Base, where he met the plane carrying the coffins of sixteen Americans killed in the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Here he is seen preparing to offer condolences to the families of those killed.
(Courtesy of Antoinette Lewis)

William Casey, Director, Central Intelligence, presenting Antoinette Lewis with a posthumous commendation recognizing her son's service to the Agency. In the CIA's Book of Honor, his death is marked by an anonymous star.
(Courtesy of Antoinette Lewis)